5 Nov 1990 French wave.
competing-explanationmass_sighting_waveGEIPAN (CNES UAP unit)
On the evening of 5 Nov 1990 thousands of witnesses across France reported a slow, silent luminous object crossing the sky. Investigators, including the French space agency's UAP unit, attributed it…
On the evening of 5 Nov 1990 thousands of witnesses across France reported a slow, silent luminous object crossing the sky. Investigators, including the French space agency's UAP unit, attributed it to the atmospheric re-entry of a spent Soviet rocket stage. It is a textbook case of a mass sighting resolved as a misidentified re-entry.