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Charente-Maritime, France · 2012-04-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Charente-Maritime, France

On April 12, 2012 at around 9:40 PM, a witness's attention was drawn by a fairly strong red glow suddenly appearing behind the windowpanes of his first-floor window. The observation lasted several minutes before the light changed color and intensity, then diminished and disappeared. No other testimony was collected. Of low to medium strangeness, and of the same level of consistency, this observation case remains difficult to conclude: a seemingly fixed point of light, bright orange-red in color and turning white as it faded, suggests an airplane seen head-on, but not with certainty in the absence of air traffic data. (see the investigation report). GEIPAN classifies this case as "C" in the absence of other objective elements.

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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.