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Vosges, France · 1992-11-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Vosges, France

On November 12, 1992 at around 5 p.m., a witness driving a car was frightened by a large flashing red mass that approached the witness quickly without making any noise. The observation lasted only a few seconds, but it passed about 50 meters from the vehicle. The phenomenon could not be identified.

 

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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.