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Gironde, France · 2007-10-03 · from the GEIPAN archive

Moving in formation in Gironde, France

On the mornings of October 2, 3, and 5, 2007, people find circles of black deposits on their lawns. They appeared during the night, and their diameters vary between 5.80 m and 10 meters, with a width of about 30 cm. During the investigations carried out by the gendarmerie and GEIPAN, samples are taken. The analyses of these samples, entrusted to the mycology department of the faculty of pharmacy in Toulouse, will identify an exceptional formation of Myxomycetes of the genus Badhamia, organisms close to fungi, intermediate between the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom.

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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.