An account in A�rien, France

On July 7, 2005 at 14:14 UTC, the captain of flight AF 7705, on approach to Charles de Gaulle airport, reports crossing paths with his aircraft at less than about half a nautical mile with an object of gray color appearing stationary. The object does not resemble a weather balloon at all. This encounter (reported as an Airprox) between an airliner and a flying object is strange. The observed shape matches neither a balloon, whether scientific, recreational, or festive. No radar echo was reported. The local analysis carried out on the ground by the aviation authorities found no explanation. It is not specified whether other pilots saw this object. The hypothesis considered of a balloon escaped from Eurodisney does not a priori match the shape or the color: balloons are almost always convex in shape, and one would imagine Eurodisney balloons as rather brightly colored. Since it is no longer possible to make progress on this investigation (searches for other sightings, inquiry at Eurodisney), this case is classified as "C" due to lack of information.

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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.