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Seine-Maritime, France · 2000-08-01 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Seine-Maritime, France

On August 1, 2000, at 1:20 a.m., two people from an apartment saw in the sky a green, egg-shaped object moving toward the southeast at very high speed on a straight trajectory. The observation lasted 6 seconds before the object split into two parts and was hidden by the urban landscape. No other testimony about this phenomenon was collected. According to the information given, these people probably observed an atmospheric reentry.

 

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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.