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Nord, France · 1997-06-06 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

On June 6, 1997 at around 11 p.m., a witness in his garden observed a static luminous ball about four times smaller in size than the moon. After a few minutes, a second ball arrived at very high speed next to the first one, and the whole thing left at high speed toward the north. The witness called his friend, who was able to observe the departure of the two balls. The gendarmerie apparently received other calls about this phenomenon, which was not explained.

 

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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.