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France, France · 1990-11-06 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in France, France

On November 6, 1990 at around 10:00 PM, several witnesses in different departments of the Southwest observed an orange fireball that disintegrated without noise. Without the scale of the previous day's atmospheric re-entry, this was likely another atmospheric re-entry.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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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.