Ardennes, France · 2009-08-21 · from the GEIPAN archive
On 21 August 2009 at 9:49 PM, a witness observed for three minutes in the sky an object of oval shape and equipped with a powerful white light beam as well as small lights. First stationary, the object then left in a straight line without any noise being heard. The witness's wife also observed the phenomenon and took photographs. This observation case comes with several photos provided by the witness. These photos turn out, on the one hand, to poorly match the observation, and are clearly the result of computer graphics processing. Given this finding, the photos are considered unusable. What remains is the observation of the phenomenon, which turns out to be moderately strange due to its straight-line movement, possibly explainable by the observation of a low-altitude aircraft. Given the conclusions on the photo analysis, GEIPAN classifies this case as "C" due to a lack of reliable information.
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