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Pas-de-Calais, France · 1987-09-29 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Pas-de-Calais, France

On September 29, 1987, two witnesses observed a luminous phenomenon for a few seconds. A bright point, with a diameter larger than that of a shooting star, moved rapidly in a very clear sky. After an almost straight trajectory, this white point went out. The description indicates that it was probably an atmospheric reentry.

 

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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.