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Calvados, France · 1985-02-24 · from the GEIPAN archive

Boom in Calvados, France

On February 24, 1985, at around 7:30 PM, several witnesses in the same area saw a pinkish-red ball fall: an explosion was also heard. The investigation would show that it was the effects of a distress flare launched without any particular intention by a person, the witnesses having seen the pinkish-red smoke of the flare and then the parachute drifting with the wind.

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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.