Earth File #608 // SOURCED record

Bierre-les-Semur reported luminous phenomenon, July 18, 1978

GEIPAN records a camper's reported observation of a stationary, luminous orange phenomenon at low altitude around 4 a.m. during the night of July 17–18, 1978. The witness reportedly described an upside-down saucer or plate, took three photographs, and reported a slow then rapid disappearance toward the south. GEIPAN classified the case as UAP B and assessed the Moon as the probable explanation, citing consistency in position, altitude, and appearance; the photographs reportedly yielded nothing when developed.
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SOL-3 // FILE 0608 // CH 11
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SENSOR CONTEXT WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported hover / stationary phaseDISK
FRED // FAMILY MATTER // generated from Earth Record metadata
DISK
Bierre-les-Semur, Burgundy, Côte-d'Or // Jul 18, 1978. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
EXPLAINED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturecamper 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported hover / stationary phasestationary, disappeared slowly and then rapidly toward the south, no sound reported
Sensor / evidencecamerathree reported photographs; development yielded no result, official GEIPAN investigation
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
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1 document(s)1 source node(s)13 structured claim(s) location precision: locality stationarydisappeared slowly and then rapidly toward the southno sound reported
FRED // FAMILY MATTERAn interesting report is allowed to have an explanation. This is why the label stays attached to the box even after the mystery gets less glamorous.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Your GEIPAN record describes a camper’s report from July 18, 1978: a stationary orange phenomenon, three photographs that yielded nothing when developed, and a disappearance reported as slow, then rapid, toward the south. GEIPAN classified the case UAP B and gave the Moon a good probability as the explanation. We were present only as observers. We did not cause the phenomenon. Our notes contain no superior explanation, which is inconveniently similar to several human filing categories.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A useful low-strangeness filing: GEIPAN classified this as UAP B, with the Moon given a good probability as the explanation. The reported photographs produced nothing, and the final southward movement was poorly documented—hardly a sturdy platform for cosmic conclusions. Sometimes the label on the box is simply “Moon,” after everyone has spent several decades arguing with the packaging. Off the Earth Record: the Visitors were observers here, not the cause. That is an AlienBox editorial matter, not an identification of the phenomenon reported on Earth. The human record remains best read as an attributed observation with a well-supported mundane explanation, not extraterrestrial evidence.
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When
July 18, 1978
Where
Bierre-les-Semur, Burgundy, Côte-d'Or
Morphology
DISK
Evidence authority
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Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typescamper
Sensor typescamera
Evidence typesthree reported photographs; development yielded no result, official GEIPAN investigation
The observation date for the BIERRE-LES-SEMUR case was July 18, 1978.
Claim #6919 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation date 18/07/1978”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0001]] case details
The case is listed in the Burgundy region and Côte-d'Or department.
Claim #6920 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Region Burgundy Department Côte-d'Or”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0001]] case details
The case was classified as B.
Claim #6921 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification B”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0001]] case details
The case summary describes a brief observation of a stationary, luminous orange object shaped like an upside-down saucer and identifies the Moon as the probable explanation.
Claim #6922 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Brief observation of a stationary, luminous orange object shaped like an upside-down saucer: probable observation of the Moon.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0001]] Summary
Around 4 a.m. during the night of July 17–18, 1978, a camper observed a stationary luminous phenomenon in the sky at low altitude.
Claim #6923 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Around 4 a.m. during the night of July 17–18, 1978, a camper observed a stationary luminous phenomenon in the sky at low altitude.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0001]] Description
The witness described an orange ball shaped like a saucer or an upside-down plate, took three photographs, and reported that the phenomenon disappeared first slowly and then rapidly toward the south.
Claim #6924 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The witness described an orange ball shaped like a saucer or an upside-down plate.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case description
No sound was heard during the observation.
Claim #6925 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“No sound was heard during the observation.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case description
The gendarmerie collected no other testimony in the surrounding area, and developing the photographs yielded nothing.
Claim #6926 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The gendarmerie collected no other testimony in the surrounding area concerning this phenomenon, and developing the photographs yielded nothing.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case description
GEIPAN states that the Moon was present at an azimuth of 240°, matching the direction attributed to the initial phase of the reported phenomenon.
Claim #6927 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 96% extraction confidence
“Indeed, the Moon was present (verified with Stellarium) at an azimuth of 240°, which is precisely the direction of Dompierre-en-Morvan (as seen by the witness from Lucenay, approximately 240°), the direction attributed to the initial phase of the UAP.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case explanation
GEIPAN states that the Moon's angular altitude of 2° is consistent with a low-altitude, fire-colored phenomenon and that clouds could make part of the Moon appear in the shape described by the witness.
Claim #6928 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 97% extraction confidence
“The hypothesis of a misidentification of the Moon would be reinforced by the fact that its angular altitude of 2° is perfectly consistent with a description of a low-altitude, fire-colored UAP (the color of the red Moon as it sets).”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case explanation
GEIPAN assesses that the final movement toward the south is poorly documented but remains compatible with a misidentification of the Moon.
Claim #6929 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The final movement toward the south is very poorly documented.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0002]] case explanation
GEIPAN states that the strong consistency between the Moon's true position and the reported position and description gives the Moon explanation a good probability.
Claim #6930 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The very strong consistency between the true position of the Moon and the position and description of the UAP gives the Moon explanation a good probability,”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0003]] case explanation
Under GEIPAN's current classification, the case is classified as UAP B, a probable observation associated with a misidentification of the Moon.
Claim #6931 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Under GEIPAN’s current classification, this low-strangeness case is classified as UAP B, a probable observation associated with a misidentification of the Moon.”
Source: BIERRE-LES-SEMUR (21) 18.07.1978 // [[T0003]] case conclusion
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