CaseOther1996
France, France
Large spiral pattern in sky. wind blew cloud moved pattern didn't 2 armed helicopters completly black arived at area warning of with li
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-21
- Where
- France, France
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-6mins
- Geo
- 43.972, -111.275 · fallback
- Slug
- other-over-france-1996-9e61b7
In context
- France, France has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 2 reports from France.
- The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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