An account in Bas-Rhin, France

On March 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, a witness observed the presence of fighter jets in the sky. Suddenly a dull metallic noise was heard. The witness then saw a metallic gray-white colored sphere stationary in the sky. Its size was larger than the aircraft. This sphere disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later. The frightened witness then went back home. This poorly documented 2009 observation was submitted late for analysis by the panel of experts working with GEIPAN. The correlation between the noise mentioned by the witness and the observation is not obvious. Air navigation data are not available (military maneuvers? Air movements?...) although the observation was made in line with the runway of the nearby air base, and it is common for military aircraft to go out and 'check' flying objects in their airspace. In the absence of a thorough investigation, this case, which is flimsy and without any strangeness, is classified in category "C".

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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.