Grand Est, France · 1957-01-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 3, 1957 at 20:22 UT, three witnesses in flight south of Marengo (now Hadjout, Algeria) observe for 15 seconds a luminous object with a green then red trail that crosses the sky along a regular descending trajectory from the southwest to the northeast. Only one testimony was collected. GEIPAN classifies this case as B: probable passage of a meteoroid.
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