Calvados, France · 2009-12-08 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 8, 2009, between 7:20 and 7:30 a.m., a witness observed for 10 to 20 seconds the passage of a luminous ball in the sky. Its movement was horizontal along a west-east trajectory. This ball disintegrated by breaking into two or three pieces before disappearing. The described phenomenon, moving horizontally at high speed and separating ("exploding") into several pieces, seems to match the characteristics of an atmospheric reentry.
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 1, 2008 at around 11:50 PM, several people observed for a few seconds a luminous phenomenon at low altitude in the sky. A circular object of color moved horizontally in an East-West…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 29, 2008, at around 9:30 PM, several witnesses observed a luminous phenomenon in the sky for 3 seconds. A very bright yellow ball moved at high speed from the southwest to the north…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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