An account in Sarthe, France

On Monday, June 6, 2016, around 9:30 PM, a witness observed for more than 10 minutes a large cloudy white point with a white trail. Viewed through binoculars, this object seemed to be made up of several dozen objects. This white point eventually faded and disappeared completely. The witness's description does not a priori represent anything very strange; it could correspond to one or more airplanes. This is, in fact, his first interpretation of the phenomenon, and there is a close conjunction of aircraft to the SSE. Nevertheless, it is not possible for GEIPAN to go further on this hypothesis or any other because the witness did not respond to GEIPAN's requests for additional information (height in the sky of the UAP) or to go to the gendarmerie to fill out a statement under the protocol linking the gendarmerie to GEIPAN. Consequently, GEIPAN classifies the case as C: lack of information.

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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.