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Somme, France · 1995-11-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Somme, France

On November 18, 1995 at around 7 p.m., a witness observed large luminous circles rotating in the sky. After investigation, it turned out that a nearby Opel garage had used an advertising laser projector during a promotional campaign. A test, carried out at the request of the investigators, confirmed the observation reported by the witness.

 

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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.