Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Climatological Data Request — Trans-en-Provence, January 1981
AI-Generated Summary
A meteorological report provided to CNES/GEPAN regarding weather conditions in Trans-en-Provence on January 8, 1981. It confirms specific atmospheric data and notes a lack of regional storm activity on January 11, 1981.
This document is a formal letter dated July 27, 1981, from the Regional Climatological Bureau of the Southeast (Météorologie Nationale) to the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Toulouse. The letter serves as a response to a request for climatological data regarding an event that occurred on January 8, 1981, at 17:00 hours in the region of Trans-en-Provence. The author provides data from the Le Luc station, which is identified as the most representative station for the area. The recorded conditions were a temperature of 6.8 degrees, 30% humidity, a South-East wind of 2 meters per second, good visibility, no precipitation, and low cloud cover of 2/8. Additionally, the author notes that the Le Luc station recorded distant lightning on January 11, 1981, though no other regional station reported storm activity.
Cette même station du LUC signalait des éclairs lointains le 11.1.81, mais aucune autre station de cette région n'observait d'orages.
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Official Assessment
The meteorological station at Le Luc reported distant lightning on January 11, 1981, but no other station in the region observed storms.