Haute-Savoie, France · 1978-12-07 · from the GEIPAN archive
During a Rome-Paris flight, a passenger observes a shiny elongated object moving from right to left below the aircraft. The pilot, questioned upon arrival, will remember having seen at the time indicated by the passenger a shiny aircraft in the setting sun moving from right to left. This aircraft left a faint condensation trail behind it. The witness probably saw this aircraft.
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