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Charente-Maritime, France · 1976-05-24 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Charente-Maritime, France

On May 24, 1976, two witnesses observe in the sky the back-and-forth movements of a bright object of elongated shape leaving no trace in the sky. No noise will be heard during the observation, which will last two or three minutes. These witnesses probably observed the maneuvers of an aircraft on exercise, but the testimony remains very imprecise.

 

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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.