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Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2009-01-11 · from the GEIPAN archive

Photographed in Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Wanting to send a photograph of Marseille under the snow to her granddaughter, a witness observes in the photograph a luminous circular object that she had not noticed at the time the photo was taken on January 11, 2009, between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. It is in fact the reflection of the kitchen neon light.

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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.