Haute-Garonne, France · 2011-05-24 · from the GEIPAN archive
Photographed in Haute-Garonne, France
A witness sends us a photograph in which he notices, at the front of the photographed airplane, an object that intrigues him.
This witness did not make a direct observation at the time the photo was taken.
The blurry object against the sky background is most likely an insect or a bird in flight, whose blur and elongated shape would have been caused by the movement of the animal during the 1/100 s exposure. On the other hand, the witness noticed nothing at the moment the photo was taken, so this is not a direct observation.
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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.
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