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Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2007-11-02 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Bouches-du-Rhône, France

On October 2, 2007, at midnight, a witness is surprised to see a red light moving at very high speed and horizontally in the sky. The observation lasted a few seconds without any noise being heard. The description and duration of the observation support the hypothesis of 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.