Earth File #1935 // SOURCED record

Joué-lès-Tours photograph spot — 17 December 2009

A witness photographed a snowy landscape from a seventh-floor room at around 3:37 p.m. A spot appeared in one photograph but was not directly observed. GEIPAN reported that analysis identified it as a small fruit-fly-type insect passing rapidly close to the camera lens; the case was classified as A.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 1935 // CH 15
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
360C-4E57-F96D
DAYLIGHT
? SENSOR CONTEXT WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported rapid motionOTHER
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATION // generated from Earth Record metadata
OTHER
Joué-lès-Tours (37) // Dec 17, 2009 15:37. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
EXPLAINED DAYLIGHT GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturephotographer 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported rapid motionpassed rapidly close to the camera lens, absent from the following photograph
Sensor / evidencecameraphotograph, official investigation and analysis
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)8 structured claim(s) location precision: locality passed rapidly close to the camera lensabsent from the following photograph
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATIONAn interesting report is allowed to have an explanation. This is why the label stays attached to the box even after the mystery gets less glamorous.
Off-record desk banter // not case attribution
Tovin Raal would call this display “plenty of information.” Tovin Raal also can turn a routine observation pass into an incident report without visibly trying. His visualization standards are not binding on this desk.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Your record describes a spot appearing in one photograph taken at Joué-lès-Tours on 17 December 2009, without direct observation. GEIPAN classified the case A and concluded that a small fruit-fly-type insect passed rapidly near the lens; the spot did not appear in the following photograph. We do not recognize or independently identify the phenomenon either. This is inconvenient. Even Gorkon Outpost has a filing category for “probably insect,” but not for “insect, somehow mysterious.”
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A spot appeared in one photograph, and GEIPAN classified the case A after identifying it as a small fruit-fly-type insect close to the lens. This is a gratifying example of an image being allowed to remain an image until analysis earns it a more specific label. The following photograph did not contain the spot, which is consistent with something passing quickly—not, regrettably, a vanished embassy. Off the Earth Record, even our side does not recognize this incident. We have checked the usual family channels. Nothing. For once, the unidentified residue belongs to the filing problem, not to the cosmos.
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When
2009-12-17 15:37:00
Where
Joué-lès-Tours (37)
Morphology
OTHER
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
EXPLAINED

Why Fred Thinks This Case Matters

AlienBox comparative analysis from structured Earth Record fields // not a new source // not a change in evidence grade
Console archetype // Published-resolution comparison

Fred keeps this file near the top of the pile because the record names 1 sensor type, the source also supplies a published resolution to compare against the original report, and visual-media evidence is explicitly referenced. That combination makes the case useful for cross-archive comparison without changing its evidence grade.

The source record includes a published resolution field. AlienBox treats it as an attributed source assessment to compare with the original report, not as an AlienBox verdict.

What strengthens the record

  • 1 linked source document provide provenance for the Earth Record.
  • 8 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
  • Recorded sensor context: Camera.
  • Recorded evidence context: Photograph and Official Investigation And Analysis.
  • The source record includes a published resolution: GEIPAN classified the case as A and concluded that the spot was a small fruit-fly-type insect close to and moving rapidly past the....

What limits the record

  • The structured record does not establish multiple independent observers.
  • The current dossier is anchored to one source network rather than independent source networks.

What would help resolve it

  • Can the originating record establish an exact number of observers and whether their observations were independent?
  • Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?

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Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typesphotographer
Sensor typescamera
Evidence typesphotograph, official investigation and analysis
The case concerns an observation of a spot in a photograph without direct observation; GEIPAN describes it as a small fruit-fly-type insect passing rapidly and very close to the camera lens when the photograph was taken.
Claim #19806 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation of a spot in a photograph without direct observation: a small insect, of the fruit-fly type (fly), passing rapidly and very close to the camera lens when the photograph was taken.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0001]] Summary
The witness took a burst of photographs of a snowy landscape from a room on the seventh floor on Thursday, December 17, 2009, at around 3:37 p.m.
Claim #19807 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“A witness takes a burst of photographs of a snowy landscape from his room on the 7th floor on Thursday, December 17, 2009, at around 3:37 p.m.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0001]] Description
The witness noticed the spot while viewing the photographs on a computer.
Claim #19808 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“When viewing them on his computer, he is intrigued by a spot in one of the photographs.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0001]] Description
The adopted hypothesis was that an insect was close to the photographer and therefore to the lens.
Claim #19809 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The hypothesis adopted is that of an insect close to the photographer and therefore to the lens.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0001]] Description
IPACO analysis concluded that the insect was very close to the lens and passing quickly, with estimated dimensions and speed compatible with a fruit-fly-type insect.
Claim #19810 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“parameters making it possible to conclude that an insect was very close to the lens and passing quickly.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0002]] Analysis
GEIPAN states that the spot no longer appeared in the following photograph.
Claim #19811 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“which moreover no longer appears in the following photograph.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0002]] Analysis
GEIPAN concludes that the object was a small fruit-fly-type insect and classifies the case as A.
Claim #19812 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“GEIPAN concludes that it was a small insect of the fruit-fly type (also called a rod in ufology) and classifies it as A.”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0002]] Analysis
The case record lists the phenomenon type as Insect and its strangeness value as 0.75.
Claim #19813 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Phenomenon type Insect Strangeness 0.75”
Source: JOUE-LES-TOURS (37) 17.12.2009 // [[T0001]] Case details
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