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Somme, France · 1993-09-05 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Somme, France

On the night of September 4–5, 1993, around midnight, four witnesses in their vehicle observed a bright orange point of light, larger than a star, moving like an airplane while approaching. The observation lasted 2 to 3 minutes, during which the object suddenly changed shape to become a highly elongated diamond or a cigar shape. No noise was perceived. 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.