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Paris, France · 1956-11-15 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Paris, France

On November 15, 1956 at 7:05 PM in Paris, a pilot observes from the ground a bright red ball moving from northwest to southeast in the clear sky. A second ball detaches from it and follows a parabolic trajectory directed downward for one second. No trail is noticed. The two balls go out abruptly and simultaneously. Only one testimony is collected at the time. GEIPAN classifies this case as B: probable observation of the passage of a fireball caused by the re-entry into the atmosphere of a natural meteoroid that fragments.

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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.