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Cher, France · 2001-06--- · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Cher, France

On June 6, 2001 at 4:40 p.m., the crew of an A300 flying toward Toulouse observed a rapid, incandescent luminous phenomenon on a descending trajectory. Given the proximity of a military zone, the observation was probably identified as a flare dropped by a military aircraft. The phenomenon was also observed by the crew of another aircraft.

 

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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.