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Pyrénées-Orientales, France · 2009-02-11 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Pyrénées-Orientales, France

On February 11, 2009 at around 8:20 PM, a witness observed a particularly bright star due west. Seen through binoculars and then with the camcorder zoom, the object intrigued the witness. A few days apart and in another location, the witness would make a similar observation. The witness observed with the naked eye and then with his camcorder the planet Venus, which was particularly visible at that time of year.

 

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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.