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Yvelines, France · 2009-02-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Yvelines, France

A witness observes in the sky, on February 27, 2009 at around 8:48 PM, the silent movements of two red lights moving in a circle then moving away toward the South. The witness will report another observation made on August 15, 2009. The observation described by the witness is entirely compatible with the appearance of two military aircraft flying in formation. This case is classified B as the probable observation of a patrol of military aircraft.

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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.