◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The CB Operators' Triangle
Late on 21 April 1982 CB radio operators across the Pyrénées-Atlantiques called each other on air about a bright point in the sky. Through binoculars it looked triangular, and it zigzagged and hovered until 3.30 in the morning for some of them. GEIPAN, the French space agency's UAP unit, filed it as unexplained. This is the record of what the radio operators reported, not a verdict on what was up there.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The CB Operators' Triangle is a reported UAP case in Tardets-Sorholus, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, 21 April 1982.
- CB radio operators across the Pyrénées-Atlantiques called each other on air about a bright point that looked triangular through binoculars.
- The witnesses described it zigzagging and hovering at very high altitude with no trail, some watching until 3.30 in the morning.
- GEIPAN holds six witness forms from six communes, which disagree on its colour and shape.
- GEIPAN gathered no further information and files the phenomenon in class D as 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
21 April 1982
LOCATION
Tardets-Sorholus, Pyrénées-Atlantiques · France
COORDS
43.12°N 0.86°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
