Orange ovoid mass circled by a luminous point in La Réunion, 1982

Summary

On the night of 5 July 1982, multiple witnesses in L'Étang-Salé, La Réunion, saw an orange ovoid mass—much larger than a star—glowing in the sky while a point of light of varying intensity circled it erratically. The phenomenon eventually disappeared into the clouds. Its nature was never identified, though the consistency among independent witness accounts lends the case some investigative interest.