France · 05 November 1990

Across most of metropolitan France, 1990

Reported

For about ten minutes one November evening, gendarmerie switchboards across France filled with the same report: a silent structured triangle crossing the whole country.

Where
Across most of metropolitan France
When
05 November 1990
Who reported it
Several hundred to several thousand incl. on-duty gendarmes and aircrew
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.

What is not settled

SOLVED, and that is why it matters. The state's own re-analysis attributes it to a rocket third-stage re-entry and GEIPAN published a simulation reproducing the track. The control case for mass sincere official testimony to a structured craft that was falling hardware.

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