Deux-Sèvres, France · 1999-08-26 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 26, 1999 at around 8:10 PM, the pilot of a flight bound for Paris CDG observed the passage, for about 5 seconds, of an incandescent white ball on a descending trajectory more than 10 km from the aircraft. This observation is probably that of an atmospheric reentry.
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