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Nord, France · 1975-09-26 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

Following a press article, the gendarmerie investigated on October 1, 1975, the observation by several witnesses of a large orange phenomenon seen in the distance in the sky over the municipalities of Elesnes-Assevent-Boussois and Vieux-Reng on Friday, September 26, 1975. The gendarmerie investigation found two people with contradictory testimonies. The photographs taken by one of the witnesses and sent to the press turned out to be blank. These people probably observed a phenomenon linked to the metallurgical region of Charleroi in Belgium, which lies on the trajectory indicated by the witnesses. This case is classified as B.

 

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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.