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Nord, France · 1982-04-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

Around 6 a.m. on April 12, 1982, several witnesses claim to have seen a luminous phenomenon in the sky. Oval in shape and orange in color, an object flies at very high altitude but very slowly. During the entire observation, which lasted about 10 minutes, the object did not change shape or color. Its speed remained constant. No other information was collected about this phenomenon.

 

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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.