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Loire-Atlantique, France · 2008-05-30 · from the GEIPAN archive

Green light in Loire-Atlantique, France

On May 30, 2008 at 2 a.m., a witness observed for a few seconds a green light in the sky. A ball of light seemed to fall from the sky and then disappeared suddenly. No other information was collected. This person probably witnessed the atmospheric re-entry of a meteorite.

What stood out: green lightvanishing suddenly

 

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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.