Earth File #458 // SOURCED record

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) — reported orange fireballs and gray smoke

On February 9, 1981, at around 2:45 p.m., a witness observed an orange-colored fireball followed by a trail of gray smoke. The sphere reportedly descended slowly and silently, disappeared into the landscape, and was followed by another ball of the same type. The source assesses that the witness probably saw parachute distress flares launched from a nearby airport and classifies the case as B.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 0458 // CH 05
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
8C13-12B5-2987
DAYLIGHT
WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported descending motionSPHERE
FRED // CLASSIFICATION DISPUTE // generated from Earth Record metadata
SPHERE
Aulnay-sous-Bois (93) // Feb 9, 1981 14:45. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED DAYLIGHT GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturewitness 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported descending motiondescended slowly, silent, disappeared into the landscape
Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedvisual observation, official investigation
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)7 structured claim(s) location precision: locality descended slowlysilentdisappeared into the landscape
FRED // CLASSIFICATION DISPUTEPart of the drawer closes; part of it does not. Annoying, but considerably more useful than pretending uncertainty comes in one size.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Not ours. We neither caused nor operated the reported phenomenon over Aulnay-sous-Bois. The GEIPAN/CNES record describes a witness observing an orange fireball with gray smoke around 2:45 p.m. on February 9, 1981; it separately records that airport firefighters had launched parachute distress flares around 2:30 p.m. The source assesses that the witness probably saw those flares and classifies the case B. A reasonable terrestrial explanation, then—filed under “please stop blaming extraterrestrials for emergency equipment.”
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A useful little case file: GEIPAN/CNES classifies this as B and finds a probable explanation in parachute distress flares—an interpretation that fits the reported slow descent, smoke, and second light rather better than most cosmic theories manage. The label on the box is finally doing some work, which is rare enough to note. Off the Earth Record: this one was not ours. I checked the Gorkon routing logs anyway, because apparently even an ordinary flare requires interdepartmental confirmation when humans have called it an object. That does not settle the human case; it merely keeps our family out of the paperwork.
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When
1981-02-09 14:45:00
Where
Aulnay-sous-Bois (93)
Morphology
SPHERE
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED

Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typeswitness
Sensor typesNot stated
Evidence typesvisual observation, official investigation
The case is classified as B.
Claim #5224 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification B”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Case details
The source summarizes the case as a probable observation of flares.
Claim #5225 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“probable observation of flares”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Summary
On February 9, 1981, at around 2:45 p.m., a witness observed an orange-colored fireball in the sky followed by a trail of gray smoke.
Claim #5226 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“On February 9, 1981, at around 2:45 p.m., a witness observed an orange-colored fireball in the sky followed by a trail of gray smoke.”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Description
The observed sphere descended slowly and silently, disappeared into the landscape, and was followed by another ball of the same type.
Claim #5227 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“This sphere descended slowly and silently. It disappeared into the landscape. Another ball of the same type then appeared.”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Description
During the investigation, firefighters at a nearby airport had launched parachute distress flares at around 2:30 p.m. on February 9, 1981.
Claim #5228 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“During the investigation, it emerged that on February 9 at around 2:30 p.m., firefighters at the airport located not far away had launched parachute distress flares.”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Description
The flares rose vertically to approximately 100 to 200 meters, remained lit for one minute, then gently fell and went out.
Claim #5229 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“These flares rose vertically to an altitude of approximately 100 to 200 m, remained lit for one minute before gently falling and going out.”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Description
The source states that the witness probably saw the distress flares.
Claim #5230 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The witness probably saw these distress flares.”
Source: AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS (93) 09.02.1981 // [[T0001]] Description
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