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Territoire de Belfort, France · 2013-04-14 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Territoire de Belfort, France

On April 14, 2013 at around 1:30 a.m., a female driver spotted, for a few seconds, the straight-line passage of a black sphere that disappeared behind the trees. No other testimony was collected. This observation of a black ball cannot be explained by the usual misidentifications. However, the relative distance and the linear movement of the phenomenon make it a relatively unremarkable observation. The fact that the witness was the only one to see it, for only a few seconds, after a very long day, makes this testimony weak: one cannot rule out an illusion, a misidentification with a night bird, or a vision problem due to fatigue. The relatively low strangeness of the case does not justify an in-depth investigation. To date, the gendarmerie report has not yet been received by GEIPAN. For now, GEIPAN classifies this case as "C" due to a lack of information and cross-checking.

 

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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.