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Somme, France · 1982-02-15 · from the GEIPAN archive

A dark figure in Somme, France

On February 15, 1982, at around 7 a.m., witnesses saw a particular luminous phenomenon in the sky that was approaching. One witness noted that flashing white lights came from each edge of a dark mass of hexagonal shape. No noise was heard while the object moved. No other information was collected about the observed phenomenon.

What stood out: a dark figure

 

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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.