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Rh�ne, France · 1978-10-28 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Rh�ne, France

On October 28, 1978, at around 7:10 PM, several witnesses observed the rapid passage from East to West of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. The witnesses describe a fireball with a luminous trail on a horizontal trajectory. No noise was heard during the observation. The phenomenon suddenly went out. Given the descriptions, these people were probably witnesses to an atmospheric reentry.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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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.