UFO News Article: “Two-year French study can’t explain UFO sighting”

5 January 1984

(The Gazette, Montreal, Canada)

Quote from the article:

“After two years of study, a government agency conceded yesterday it is unable to explain the sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in southern France in 1981.

An unusual phenomenon had undoubtedly occurred when the UFO appeared to land briefly near the hamlet of Trans (Trans-en-Provence), says the report by the National Centre for Unidentified Aerospatial Phenomena.

It leaves unexplained the identity of the Trans UFO seen by retired farmer Renato Nicolai on Jan. 8, 1981.”

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19840105&id=O1wxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T6UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5791,847725

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The 8 January 1981 Trans-en-Provence, France, UFO ring (bluejayblog.files.wordpress.com)

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Satellite photo of Trans-en-Provence, France (tageo.com)

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UFO Journal Article: “Report on the Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces: The 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO Case”

By Jean-Jacques Velasco, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies), Paris, France

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 4, No. I, 1990

(Society for Scientific Exploration, U.S.A.)

Source: NOUFORS.com, Sudbury, Canada

The Trans-en-Provence, France, UFO landing incident occurred on 8 January 1981:

http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Books,%20Manuals%20and%20Published%20Papers/Specialty%20UFO%20Publications/Journal%20of%20Scientific%20Exploration/jse_04_1_velasco.pdf

Jean-Jacques Velasco worked as an engineer for the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) and was director of the official French government programme to study UFOs (SEPRA, GEIPAN) from 1983 until 2004.

Wikipedia article: “GEIPAN”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEIPAN

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Satellite photo of Trans-en-Provence, France (tageo.com)

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