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Essonne, France · 1980-09-14 · from the GEIPAN archive

Pilot witness in Essonne, France

On September 14, 1980 at 12:45 p.m., an air traffic controller on duty spots a particular phenomenon. Located directly above him, an object of black cylindrical shape is stationary. The object, which is about 300 meters from the ground, then makes a sudden acceleration and disappears heading East. No information allowing a serious study of this observation was collected.

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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.