On January 3, 2014 at around 3:10 p.m., a motorist and his passenger were intrigued by the slow passage, in a gap in thick clouds, of two cigar-shaped objects of anthracite gray color. Only one testimony was collected. Given the elements collected during the investigation (see investigation document), it turns out that the altitude, height, azimuths, and distance to the witnesses of the UAPs are compatible with those of aircraft suspected of being the cause of the observation. We can conclude that the UAPs observed by the witness are probably only two airliners observed under particular conditions. These two aircraft are flights AFR1263 and AFR1471. This testimony is of good consistency: fairly precise, but without photographs and coming from a single witness. A summary diagram made by the witness was useful in this case. The observation is rather strange because it involves objects with seemingly unusual behavior. But due to the uncertainty about the time of passage of the aircraft and the angular size of the objects reported by the witnesses, this case is classified as "B" as a very likely observation of two airliners.
Nord, France · 2014-01-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Nord, France
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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.