France · 27 November 1979
Porcieu-Amblagnieu, 1979
DocumentedA 13-year-old alone with a baby told French state scientists a luminous man in a silver suit stood in the meadow beside a machine on the ground; the state answered with a 137-page technical note.
- Where
- Porcieu-Amblagnieu, Isere (anonymised as commune V3)
- When
- 27 November 1979
- Who reported it
- 1 girl aged 13 alone at home; adults saw only the luminous object
- Entities described
- 1 figure
- Described as
- Upright human-shaped silhouette ~1.65m, one-piece silvery luminous coverall. No face, head, eyes, hands or skin stated.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
What the record resolves
The record carries a garment, a helmet or an enclosure. The body inside it is not described.
Human-shaped, 1.65m, in a silvery luminous coverall. No face, head, eyes, hands or skin stated.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- GEPAN / CNES; Gendarmerie Nationale Note Technique n.8 - Enquete 79/06 (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
Entity seen by one juvenile witness only; adults corroborated a light, not the figure. GEPAN concedes strong subjectivity and possible headlight origin. Only an oval flattening in grass, no hard trace.