Earth File #163 // SOURCED record

Reported orange ball observation at Mont-Dore, 7 September 1996

GEIPAN records that, during the night of 6–7 September 1996, a witness at a treatment facility reportedly observed an orange ball slowly descending from the sky and flying over trees. No other information was collected. The case is classified C, with the phenomenon type listed as “Lack of reliable information.”
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 0163 // CH 08
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
BD24-4D38-8FAB
CLOCK // NOT PRECISE
WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported descending motionSPHERE
FRED // CLASSIFICATION DISPUTE // generated from Earth Record metadata
SPHERE
Mont-Dore (63), France // Sep 7, 1996. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
INSUFFICIENT DATA CLOCK // NOT PRECISE GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturewitness at a treatment facility 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported descending motionslowly descending, flying over trees
Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedofficial GEIPAN case record, reported witness observation
Fred's paperwork completeness8/9 fields // 89%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)5 structured claim(s) location precision: locality slowly descendingflying over trees
FRED // CLASSIFICATION DISPUTEShape and motion give me something worth diagramming. The diagram remains a diagram, which I am apparently required to keep explaining.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Yes, that was ours. The GEIPAN record reports that, during the night of 6–7 September 1996, a witness at a treatment facility observed an orange ball slowly descending and flying over the trees. We were conducting a low-profile descent survey. The record collected no other information and classifies the case C, “Lack of reliable information.” A fair assessment. Our paperwork was similarly minimal, though this was intentional rather than administrative.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
The Earth Record gives us an orange ball, a reported descent over trees, and almost nothing else. GEIPAN classifies the sourced case C: “Lack of reliable information.” Sensible. A shape and a direction are not a vehicle registration, however much the universe may encourage optimistic filing. Off the Earth Record: yes, yes, that one was ours. You finally noticed us. I would identify the responsible relative, but the information collected was already insufficient and I am not reopening the family correspondence. The label remains correct: observed, unresolved, and not evidence of anything more than the record establishes.
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When
September 7, 1996
Where
Mont-Dore (63), France
Morphology
SPHERE
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
INSUFFICIENT DATA

Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typeswitness at a treatment facility
Sensor typesNot stated
Evidence typesofficial GEIPAN case record, reported witness observation
The case record lists the observation date as 07/09/1996.
Claim #2062 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation date 07/09/1996”
Source: MONT-DORE (63) 07.09.1996 // [[T0001]] case details
The case is classified C.
Claim #2063 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification C”
Source: MONT-DORE (63) 07.09.1996 // [[T0001]] case details
The case's phenomenon type is listed as "Lack of reliable information."
Claim #2064 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Type of phenomenon Lack of reliable information”
Source: MONT-DORE (63) 07.09.1996 // [[T0001]] case details
During the night of September 6–7, 1996, a witness at a treatment facility reportedly observed an orange ball slowly descending from the sky and flying over the trees.
Claim #2065 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“During the night of September 6–7, 1996, a witness at a treatment facility observed, at around 2 a.m., an orange ball slowly descending from the sky and flying over the trees.”
Source: MONT-DORE (63) 07.09.1996 // [[T0001]] Description
No other information was collected about the observation.
Claim #2066 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“No other information was collected about this observation.”
Source: MONT-DORE (63) 07.09.1996 // [[T0001]] Description
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