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Haut-Rhin, France · 1987-07-09 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haut-Rhin, France

On July 9, 1987 at around 11:55 PM, a witness observed from his window an object of elongated shape similar to a cigar. From this observation, which lasted only a few seconds, it emerges that this object had a coppery red color, that it moved very quickly without leaving a trace. No other observation of this phenomenon will be reported.

 

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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.