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Moselle, France · 1983-11-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Moselle, France

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.

 

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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.