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Marne, France · 1980-10-22 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Marne, France

On October 22, 1980 at 6:15 PM, a person sighted from their home a series of luminous flashes in the sky. These glows moved rapidly and appeared white or red in color. The observation lasted about 4 minutes. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.

 

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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.