Moselle, France · 1983-11-18 · from the GEIPAN archive
On November 18, 1983, between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., several witnesses in Moselle spotted a luminous phenomenon in the sky for a few seconds. A ball, about the size of a football and orange in color, crossed the sky without making any noise but left behind it a long colored trail. This was probably an atmospheric re-entry.
On November 20, 1981 at around 6 p.m., several witnesses observed in the sky a luminous ball followed by a multicolored trail. This ball moved at very high speed, crossing the sky in a south…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On November 17, 1983, between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., witnesses located in three departments (Haute-Saône, Moselle, and Meurthe-et-Moselle) saw a luminous phenomenon crossing the sky. A rou…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
At 3 a.m. on June 16, 1982, witnesses spotted in the sky an object of spherical shape in a halo followed by a set of smaller points of orange-yellow color forming a luminous trail. This set …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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