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A triangle shape in Maine-et-Loire, France

On October 20, 2010, GEIPAN received a testimony from a person concerning an old observation made in late October 1996 at 9 p.m. (the witness did not specify the exact date, so the date of October 30 is given arbitrarily). At the time, aged 11, the witness, accompanied by his mother and his little brother, was first intrigued by the sight of three stationary lights above the trees of a square in Angers. The witness then describes the phenomenon as a triangle with a black circle in the center that moves and disappears in a lightning-fast acceleration. No noise was heard during the 20-second observation. The second witness (the mother) remembers an observation made in autumn 1996 around 8 p.m. of an unusual light and a moving craft that she did not recognize. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon. The description of this case is too imprecise (incomplete date) and too old for GEIPAN to investigate and, a fortiori, to rule on this case, classified "C," due to lack of information.

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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.