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Val-de-Marne, France · 1979-08-28 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Val-de-Marne, France

On August 28, 1979 at 8:45 PM, a witness using binoculars observed the passage of a passenger plane. He would see behind the plane and above it a very bright, rectangular shape. No further information on this phenomenon was provided by the gendarmerie brigades bordering Orly airport or by the head of the Orly South regional control center.

 

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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.