Contradictory accounts of lights and shapes in Monthermé

Summary

In October 1980, a teenage girl in Monthermé told the gendarmerie she had seen a luminous sphere near her home, describing it as a flying saucer or large cigar with coloured lights that took off. Her sister and parents also saw lights, but with contradictory details: the adults could not see the object the children described, and one parent did not even hear the alleged takeoff noise. All agreed the lights headed toward Les Roches.

GEIPAN reviewed the case decades later and reclassified it as C. The inconsistencies between testimonies — shape, duration, and sound — are irreconcilable. No physical traces or other reports from the area were found, preventing a conclusive assessment.