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Moselle, France · 1982-02-21 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Moselle, France

On February 21, 1982 at around 6:15 a.m., two witnesses observed a luminous phenomenon in the sky. A bright red point moved slowly toward the south. The same observation had been made in January 1981 and 1982 by another witness. The description suggests an astronomical observation, a hypothesis that cannot be verified for lack of evidence.

 

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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.