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GEIPAN case 2022-05-51350 (classification D, unidentified after investigation): a single witness in Montluel, Ain, France reports an eight-second nighttime passage of a dark rectangular object on 14 May 2022 around 03:10.
GEIPAN case 2022-05-51350 (classification D, unidentified after investigation): a single witness in Montluel, Ain, France reports an eight-second nighttime passage of a dark rectangular object on 14 May 2022 around 03:10.
GEIPAN, the UAP unit of French national space agency CNES, logged case 2022-05-51350 after a witness on a Montluel apartment balcony reported watching a silent, dark grey rectangular object cross the sky from west to east for roughly eight seconds at about 03:10 on 14 May 2022. The witness estimated the object's apparent size at about 20 by 40 mm at arm's length, with no lights and no trail. GEIPAN classified the case D, meaning unidentified after investigation. The released package includes a page with a witness-supplied nighttime image annotated with arrows indicating the object's trajectory.
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[IMAGE: Nighttime photograph showing a dark sky above a treeline with ambient orange/yellow ground lighting. Two white arrows point left across the frame, indicating a trajectory or direction of movement. A dark rectangular box is positioned between the two arrows near the center-right of the image, containing [ILLEGIBLE] text. The foreground is blurred with orange light artifacts (likely from a window or glass surface). No printed text is present on this page outside the obscured label within the dark rectangle.]
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[IMAGE: Nighttime photograph showing a dark sky above a treeline with ambient orange/yellow ground lighting. Two white arrows point left across the frame, indicating a trajectory or direction of movement. A dark rectangular box is positioned between the two arrows near the center-right of the image, containing [ILLEGIBLE] text. The foreground is blurred with orange light artifacts (likely from a window or glass surface). No printed text is present on this page outside the obscured label within the dark rectangle.]