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Haut-Rhin, France · 1998-09-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haut-Rhin, France

On September 18, 1998, several witnesses observed a luminous ovoid object that seemed to follow a precise trajectory. Flashes regularly illuminated the craft. One of the witnesses was able to film this observation before the craft moved away and disappeared. The investigation showed that it was a night flight of a Zeppelin-shaped airship used for advertising purposes.

 

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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.