◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Saint-Lô circling light
On an April evening in 2012 a man smoking in his garden at Saint-Lô watched two lights cross the sky at speed, the second one looping around the first in ellipses and sharp-angled turns. France's official UAP unit checked radar, satellites and the weather, sent an investigator and still classed it unexplained. This is the record of what was reported, not a verdict on what was in the sky.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Saint-Lô circling light is a reported UAP case in Saint-Lô, Manche, France, 4 April 2012.
- A man in his garden reported a second light looping around a first in ellipses and sharp-angled turns, closing to contact and falling back very fast.
- Both lights passed into or behind a cloud after about fifteen seconds and did not reappear.
- GEIPAN checked military radar, satellites and the wind, and judged that the sighting withstands the usual hypotheses of mistaken identity.
- A brief visual illusion was weighed and rejected for lack of support, and the case is classed D1, unexplained.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 1 corroborating primary document.
- The archive grades it L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT — the archive holds one account of it, from a single source.
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
4 April 2012
LOCATION
Saint-Lô, Manche · France
COORDS
49.12°N 1.09°W
INDEPENDENCE
L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
0
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
