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Martinique, France · 2009-04-20 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Martinique, France

A witness reports successive observations, at sunrise, of the presence of a bright light due East in the sky. The witness sends two photographs. After astronomical verification, it turns out that this observation case corresponds to the planet Venus. This case is therefore classified "A" as perfectly identified.

 

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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.