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Doubs, France · 1988-09-07 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Doubs, France

On September 7, 1988 at around 11 p.m., a witness observed the very rapid passage of a luminous ball followed by a white trail seeming to give off sparks. The phenomenon crossed the sky in a fraction of a second. The witness's description leads to favoring the observation of a probable 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.