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Loiret, France · 2002-10-08 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Loiret, France

On October 8, 2002 at around 10:20 PM, several witnesses in different locations observed a very bright light followed by the fall of an object along a trajectory at 45 degrees. The phenomenon is classified as B and is identified as a probable 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.