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Bay of Papeete, French Polynesia, Agust 6, 2002:
| Date: | August 6, 2002 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM |
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| Duration: | 15 minutes |
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| Department: | French Polynesia (Tahiti Island) |
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| Location: | Bay of Papeete, Pacific Ocean |
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| Number of witness: | Witness reports 3 other people with him |
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| Number of objects: | 1 |
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| Shape of object: | Not dictinct due to small size |
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| Other objects: | No |
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| Sound: | No |
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| Color: | White light with irregular flickering |
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| Flashes, rays: | No |
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| Color of flashes, rays: | N/A |
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| Contrail, exhaust, ejection: | No |
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| Color of contrail, exhaust, ejection: | N/A |
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| Moon visible: | Not asked |
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| Clouds: | No |
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| Rain: | No |
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| Wind: | 30 Km/h, probably coming from West |
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FFU notes:
The witness is a long time personal friend of mine, who settled in Tahiti a little more
than a year ago. Married, with child, serious occupation, he is fond of the X-Files but
quite skeptic about the UFO phenomenon as anything else than a fiction. The questions and
answers were exchanged by Internet instant messaging. The "Tahiti" nickname is not
the actual IM nickname. Name and postal adresse of course known by the FFU interviewer,
not published to respect the witness's privacy.
The report:
Tahiti: I saw a UFO yesterday...
Tahiti: a very luminous point, stationnary in the sky.
Tahiti: Above the ocean (it was 09:00AM... I had not drunk anything).
Question: Venus?
Tahiti: No, it flickered from time to time.
Question: Satellite?
Tahiti: And I see Venus in the evening!
Question: Ok, tells?
Tahiti: It was simply a luminous spot surrounded by a very small cloud.
Question: If you extend the arm, and looks at the thumbnail, what size compared to the nail of your thumb?
Tahiti: It was very far... Half my thumb.
Question: 2 - 3 millimetres, is that correct?
Tahiti: Yes.
Tahiti: But it was not a plane... it stayed at the same place too long.
Question: Height angle?
Tahiti: 30° compared to the horizon.
Question: No movement?
Tahiti: None.
Question: Color?
Tahiti: White.
Question: Sky? Clouds? Clear, Foggy, Misty?
Tahiti: Clear and no clouds.
Question: ok. Full Daylight?
Tahiti: Yes, 09:00 AM!
Question: Ok. How long did the observation last?
Tahiti: 1/4 of an hour.
Question: Ok. Was it there when you looked at it, or did you see it appearing?
Tahiti: It was there.
Question: How did it leave?
Tahiti: I initially believed in the headlights of a plane... but it did not move.
Tahiti: Disapeared suddenly.
Question: suddenly, you mean, not fading? Like a lamplight switched off?
Tahiti: It flieckered sometimes... and then, suddenly, nothing.
Question: Ok. The flickering? regular? irregular?
Tahiti: Irregular.
Question: Some shape? round? oval?
Tahiti: It seemed oval but it was very small...
Question: Ok. Changes in the sky afterwards? Clearer? Sorry for the silly question but I don't figure out 09:00AM in Tahiti.
Tahiti: No changes in sky condition before midday.
Question: Ok. Direction? South, North? Unknown?
Tahiti: It was in the North-East.
Question: When you first saw it, what were you doing? (no indiscretion lol).
Tahiti: I was on a boat.
Tahiti: Before diving.
Tahiti: It stopped 10 minutes before we dove.
Question: So there were other people with you. How many saw it?
Tahiti: There were other people... 3. But they did not know what it was and that did not care too much.
Question: Ok. What is your opinion about it?
Tahiti: 4 with me.
Tahiti: Frankly I do not know...
Question: Ok. The exact date?
Tahiti: An helicopter hovering a very long time and very far...
Tahiti: Just an hypothesis ...
Question: Ok.
Tahiti: Tuesday August, 6 , at 09:00 AM.
Tahiti: In large bay of Papette.
Question: Were there rays, reflections?
Tahiti: No.
Question: Trails?
Tahiti: No... a sort of small cloud around.
Question: Size of the cloud compared to the thumb at arm's length?
Tahiti: 1/2 of my thumb.
Question: Was there wind?
Tahiti: A little... 30 km/h.
Tahiti: As usual.
Question: Direction of the wind?
Tahiti: I'd say coming from West.
Question: Ok. Any sounds? Noise?
Tahiti: No.
Question: You were in relative silence I imagine? You would have heard a passing plane?
Tahiti: Yes... because a plane did pass a little before.
Question: Ok. no more questions for now.
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