On 21 October 1982, an ovoid object reportedly descended into a residential garden in Nancy, France and hovered for about 20 minutes. GEPAN investigated. The object identity was never settled.
Nancy matters because it is a French physical-trace case with a GEPAN investigation — a counterpart to Trans-en-Provence whose cause remains unresolved.
A resident reported an ovoid object descending into a garden in Nancy, hovering for about 20 minutes before taking off silently.
Documented
The resident’s report is documented.
GEPAN, the French official UAP body, investigated and produced Technical Note 86/06. The case entered the French official record.
Documented
The GEPAN investigation is documented.
The case is named for reported effects on amaranth plants. The significance of these physical effects is disputed, and the object identity remains unresolved.
Debated
The object identity and the physical interpretation are disputed.
The physical effects are reported, not proven. The case is largely a single-witness account with an official investigation.
Unverified
Any extraterrestrial origin is unverified.
These sources do different jobs: GEPAN is the official record, and Wikipedia is the reference. Neither establishes the object identity or the physical interpretation.
The official investigation.
The French official archive.
The compiled reference.