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Calvados, France · 2009-09-16 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Calvados, France

GEIPAN received a brief testimony of a particular observation made on September 16, 2009. A single witness observed the rapid passage toward the North of a luminous phenomenon changing trajectory several times. The phenomenon disappeared toward the N-W. Despite our follow-ups, no other information was collected on this phenomenon, making any investigation impossible.

 

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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.