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France, France · 1991-11-28 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in France, France

On November 28, 1991, at around 10:30 PM, at least 25 witnesses spread along the Atlantic coast and the Southwest saw, for about ten seconds, a very bright green ball moving at high speed without making any noise. According to some accounts, this ball disintegrated into a shower of sparks. The general direction deduced from the testimonies seems to be southeast to northwest. It is very likely that this was the atmospheric re-entry of a piece of space debris.

 

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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.