The faked UFO recorded by a child in Nort-sur-Erdre

Summary

In the early hours of 7 September 1987, a ten-year-old boy in Loire-Atlantique claimed to have seen a luminous disc and recorded a sound on his radio cassette player. The recording lasted about twenty seconds. GEPAN investigated thoroughly, carrying out scene reconstructions and analysing the tape. The sound turned out to be internally generated by the device and unrelated to any external phenomenon. Vegetation around the site showed no signs of disturbance. The child eventually admitted he had made the story up to get attention. The case was classified as fully explained.