Ardennes, France · 1955-05-20 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Ardennes, France
On May 20, 1955 at 2:30 in the morning, two police officers observe the passage from southeast to northwest of a luminous phenomenon that intrigues them and disappears in a few seconds. This phenomenon has the shape of a shell and is followed by a luminous, multicolored trail. A police report is filed. GEIPAN classifies this case as B: probable observation of a fireball, that is, the atmospheric entry of a meteoroid.
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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.
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