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Oise, France · 1990-05-26 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Oise, France

On May 25, 1990, around 11 p.m., several witnesses were intrigued by 3 rotating yellow searchlights in the sky. The phenomenon was seen by other witnesses over several days. The investigation would show without ambiguity that it was a searchlight system from a nearby nightclub, visible more than 30 km around.

 

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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.