The Sun mistaken for a UFO in Fontenay-le-Fleury

Summary

On July 21, 1980, a resident of Fontenay-le-Fleury spotted from his fifth-floor apartment a bright orange hemispherical shape that hovered for a minute before moving in a straight line and disappearing. GEPAN classified the case as category A after concluding that the observer, likely due to cloud cover, had mistaken the Sun for an unidentified object. No further information was collected by the Gendarmerie.