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France, France · 1975-02-17 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in France, France

On February 17, 1975, between 7:20 p.m. and 7:50 p.m., several witnesses in different French departments observed in the sky the unusual presence of one or two large and particularly bright points. No noise was heard during the long observations made by the witnesses. These witnesses made an astronomical observation of the conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter, which was particularly visible at that time of year.

 

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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.