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Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2000-09-10 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Bouches-du-Rhône, France

On September 10, 2000 at around 10:50 a.m., two different witnesses observed the simultaneous fall of two incandescent luminous balls with a significant white trail. No noise was detected and the objects disappeared within a few seconds. This is probably the observation of 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.