Normandy (France), France
A witness reported an unusual object moving erratically before vanishing over Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1945, observed for about 10 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (149 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1945-06-06
- Where
- Normandy (France), France
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.721, -90.297 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-normandy-france-1945-0b0ecc
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- Normandy (France), France has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1945 brought 1 reports from France.
- The 1940s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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