France · 28 January 1994

Near Coulommiers, 1994

Reported

An Air France crew at cruising altitude reported a large lens-shaped object holding station beside them, then vanishing in a second, and the state investigation reported a radar track along their path.

Where
Near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, cruise altitude
When
28 January 1994
Who reported it
3 civilian airline crew on duty
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
Evidence class
GOV-2

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

Three witnesses, no photograph. The radar correlation is load-bearing and contested; sceptics argue a conventional aircraft or contrail. Object size depends on assumed distance, never independently fixed.

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