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Witness typesfour people, eyewitness testimony
Sensor typesradar
Evidence typeswitness testimony, radar records, official scientific investigation
The case concerns an observation dated September 7, 2012, in the Champagne-Ardenne region and Marne department.
Claim #17452 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation date
07/09/2012
Region
Champagne-Ardenne
Department
Marne”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] case details
GEIPAN classified the case as category B and identified the phenomenon type as helicopter.
Claim #17453 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification
B
Update date
23/06/2021
Type of phenomenon
Helicopter”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] case details
The summary describes a slow and silent passage of an object in the sky and identifies a probable low-altitude helicopter.
Claim #17454 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation of the slow and silent passage of an object in the sky: probable low-altitude helicopter.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] Summary
At approximately 9:00 p.m. on September 7, 2012, four people observed a luminous point slowly and silently approaching them; after it changed trajectory, they observed a rounded and dark shape.
Claim #17455 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 96% extraction confidence
“On September 7, 2012, at 9:00 p.m., a group of 4 people observed in the dark sky the presence of a luminous point slowly and silently coming toward them.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] Description
Only one testimony was collected for the observation.
Claim #17456 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Only one testimony was collected.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] Description
The observation of a luminous point low on the horizon was assessed as suggesting a low-altitude aircraft.
Claim #17457 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 96% extraction confidence
“This observation of a luminous point low on the horizon suggests a low-altitude aircraft.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] Description
An investigation requested from military air traffic control found radar traces indicating low-altitude air traffic between 9:23 p.m. and 9:25 p.m. in the witness's direction of observation, between Morangis and Brugny, coming from the West.
Claim #17458 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 95% extraction confidence
“An investigation was requested from military air traffic control: the radar traces (attached) indicate low-altitude air traffic between 9:23 p.m. and 9:25 p.m. (the times indicated on the radar record are in universal time) in the witness's direction of observation between Morangis and Brugny, coming from the West, in an area without an airfield.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0001]] Description
The case record states that the radar traces did not correspond to the observation, but demonstrated air activity in the area.
Claim #17459 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“These traces therefore do not correspond to the observation, but they prove that there was air activity in this area.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0002]] assessment
GEIPAN states that the radar evidence and uncertainties support classifying the case as not very strange, category B, as a probable observation of a helicopter.
Claim #17460 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“In view of this information and these uncertainties, GEIPAN classifies this case as not very strange, in category B, as a probable observation of a helicopter.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0002]] assessment
GEIPAN states that the case's low strangeness did not justify a field investigation.
Claim #17461 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The phenomenon's low strangeness does not justify a field investigation.”
Source: VERTUS (51) 07.09.2012
// [[T0002]] assessment
