6/19/78 - Franck Pavia and Jean-Marc Guitard, and M. Bachere, Gujan-Mestras, France, 1:30AM

Report Summary	"[street] lights in the town were suddenly switched off... a powerful rumble like an earthquake... the object ... [was] oval, red, surrounded with white 'flames', and it flew toward them at an altitude of 11,000 (possible typo, may be 1,000, see later witness) feet... Jean-Marc became unable to breathe and fainted.... Mr. Bachere... saw 'a large orange ball, very bright' that hovered over La Reole before disappearing. It reappeared over the same spot one minute later... photoelectric cells... control the street lights... Distance between the cell and the UFO as 135-480 m (400-1500 ft)... this yields an energy level between 160 kW and 5mW.[footnote 1]
Hynek Classification	CE-II
Original Vallee Classification	Type Va
Current Vallee Classification	FB5
Minimum Distance	400-1500ft
Object Appearance	Oval, red, with white luminosity; later seen as orange sphere
Object Behavior	Flyby
Physical Effect	Turned off street lights due to its brightness
Medical Effect	"Jean-Marc had red, teary eyes"
Comments / Conclusion	The onset of the problem seems too quick to be cause by UV.

Footnotes

1. Vallee, Confrontations, ISBN 0-345-36501-1, p30