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Nord, France · 1980-12-24 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

On December 24, 1980 at around 12:15 a.m., a witness from their home saw for one to two seconds a luminous phenomenon of green color. This phenomenon seemed to descend from the sky and disappeared into the mountain. Despite an investigation with a ski patrol team active there that night and ground searches, no other information was gathered about this phenomenon, for which we lack data.

 

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.