Occitanie, France · 1997-03-17 · from the GEIPAN archive
Pilot witness in Occitanie, France
On March 17, 1997 at around 9 a.m., several witnesses, including the crew of a TAT flight and a pilot on a Mirage 2000 exercise, observed the very rapid passage of a luminous phenomenon descending very quickly. The phenomenon was also observed by three witnesses in the same terms from two villages in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The witnesses' description corresponds to the probable observation of an atmospheric reentry.
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