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Seine-Maritime, France · 2010-05-23 · from the GEIPAN archive

Hovering in Seine-Maritime, France

On May 23, 2010 at around 10:45 p.m., several people observed the movements of a bright orange object in the sky. It moved horizontally, then hovered, before moving off vertically and disappearing at the horizon. No sound was heard during the observation, which lasted 5 minutes. No other testimony was collected about this phenomenon. These people were probably witness to the passage of a Thai lantern.

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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.