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Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 1998-09-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Bouches-du-Rhône, France

On September 27, 1998 at 3 a.m., a witness observes in the sky a round and luminous object of a yellowish color. The object is on the side of a hill and moves very slowly. After a good five minutes, the object left at very high speed before disappearing. No explanation has been given for this phenomenon.

 

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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.