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Oise, France · 1954-10-07 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Oise, France

On October 7, 1954 at 9:00 a.m., two people see, vertically above the church bell tower, a craft of oval shape, very shiny aluminum color. The craft moves SE-NW. The observation duration is one minute. This observation is the subject of a brief information sheet by the national gendarmerie. This type of observation can have various origins (sun reflection on an airplane, balloon, fireball). GEIPAN classifies this case as C due to lack of information.

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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.