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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France · 2010-12-31 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France

On December 31, 2010, at around 11:30 PM, a witness observed the movement of an intense red spot. No particular noise was heard by the witness as the spot approached, then abruptly changed direction and moved away rapidly along an ascending trajectory. The witness, after having seen the film and the photos that appear on the GEIPAN website, acknowledged having witnessed 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.