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Côtes-d'Armor, France · 1995-10-01 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Côtes-d'Armor, France

On October 1, 1995, at around 2:45 a.m., a witness in his car observed an object of cylindrical shape, aluminum-colored. For one minute, he observed a strong orange light coming from a cylinder about 1 meter in diameter. No noise was noticed. No other elements could be gathered.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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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.