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Pas-de-Calais, France · 2002-12-09 · from the GEIPAN archive

Pilot witness in Pas-de-Calais, France

On December 9, 2002, a private pilot instructor with 2 student pilots saw, during the takeoff of their aircraft, a large beacon heading toward them which then went out, revealing a spherical shape that abruptly changed direction. The control tower detected nothing, nor did the radars. Unexplained phenomenon classified D.

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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.