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Côte-d'Or, France · 1985-01-24 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Côte-d'Or, France

On January 24, 1985, a motorist and his wife saw a white point with blue-green reflections. This point, much larger than a star, had a straight-line trajectory and left no trace or trail behind it. The observation lasted about 5 seconds before the object disappeared. No other information could be gathered 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.