Haut-Rhin, France · 1998-09-18 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Haut-Rhin, France
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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.