🇫🇷 GEIPAN / CNES
In the early hours of September 27, 2001, a witness in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque saw a very large triangular object pass at low altitude — significantly bigger than a conventional aircraft. It moved in complete silence at an estimated speed three times that of a commercial plane. Its dark surface contrasted with phosphorescent lights at each tip. No conventional explanation — drones, experimental aircraft — fits the description provided.
GEIPAN classified the case as D, reserved for observations with no satisfactory explanation. The combination of size, speed, and total absence of noise makes it one of the most striking accounts in the French register of unidentified aerial phenomena.