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Sarthe, France · 1993-05-17 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Sarthe, France

On May 17, 1993 at around 12:15 p.m., a witness in his garden observed in the distance a shiny white disk whose speed could be estimated at 3 or 4 times that of a passenger plane. No noise was heard; the witness followed the phenomenon with binoculars for about 2 minutes. No other information could be gathered about this observation.

 

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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.