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Territoire de Belfort, France · 1981-05-04 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Territoire de Belfort, France

On May 4, 1981, between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., numerous witnesses, including military personnel, observed orange luminous phenomena in the sky in the direction of Switzerland. During the investigation, it was established that military maneuvers did take place that evening near the Swiss border and that these were flare rockets.

 

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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.