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Val-d'Oise, France · 2009-01-11 · from the GEIPAN archive

Photographed in Val-d'Oise, France

On January 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM, a photograph was taken with a mobile phone from a balcony. According to the witness, the moon is visible in the upper part, as well as street lighting in the lower left part of the photograph. However, an unknown orange object appears on the right. No other information about the observation was collected.

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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.