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Moselle, France · 1993-08-08 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Moselle, France

On August 8, 1993, witnesses spotted around 10 p.m. a glow of spherical shape and the size of a hot-air balloon. The observation lasted 30 seconds, then the object disappeared quickly with a high-pitched whistling sound. No other information could be gathered.

 

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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.