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La Réunion, France · 2009-06-20 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in La Réunion, France

On June 20, 2009 at around 7:20 PM, a witness films a phenomenon that intrigues him: a luminous point moves silently in the sky. Viewing the video shows a definite misidentification with an airplane departing from or approaching the Saint-Pierre Pierrefonds airport (La Réunion): green position lights, flashing anti-collision lights. This case is classified "A": observation of an airplane.

 

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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.