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Seine-et-Marne, France · 2011-03-21 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Seine-et-Marne, France

On March 21, 2011, at 5:03 in the morning, a witness observes for a few seconds the silent passage of a yellow-orange trail following a descending trajectory E-NE. This person probably witnessed an atmospheric re-entry: the description of the phenomenon is entirely consistent with the appearance of a meteorite fall.

 

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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.