◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Duty Officer's Zigzag Light
On the night of 11 April 1953 the duty officer at the French Air Force's depot 603 at Limoges-Romanet watched a big red-orange light zigzag across the sky, turn back on itself and climb. Two of his men saw it dive away. His report went up the chain to the Armed Forces' scientific bureau. This is the record of what three airmen reported, not a verdict on what crossed the sky.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Duty Officer's Zigzag Light is a reported UAP case in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, 11 April 1953.
- An Air Force captain on night duty at depot 603 in Limoges reported a big red-orange light zigzagging across the sky, changing heading every second along a broken line of 15-degree angles.
- By his report it turned through 180 degrees while climbing and came back the way it had come; two of his men watched it go into a long dive and vanish.
- The captain's written report passed up the chain and on 7 May 1953 reached the scientific bureau of the Armed Forces general staff.
- GEIPAN says the sighting matches none of the known misidentifications and classes it unexplained.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 3 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
11 April 1953
LOCATION
Limoges, Haute-Vienne · France
COORDS
45.84°N 1.26°E
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
3
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
