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I very last moment and passed over his right wing grazing it, all within a fraction ofa
second. P retained the following memory of this incident:
- S was not very large ( l to 2 m in diameter),
I - S was extended by a tail, which was comparable to that on a comet, that was also a
fluorescent green color,
- the center of S consisted ofa very bright white light (magnesium-fire type),
- the sighting lasted a total ofless than 5 seconds.
P, who was very shocked by this phenomenon, informed the radar controller (-)
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!I ensuring the control of the mission on the ground; the controller had not detected anything
on his radar scope. Upon return, two other pilots who had followed the same itinerary as
P stated that they had seen the phenomenon, but from a distance.
I 1.3 Air France Flight AF 3532 (January 28, 1994)
Jean-Charles Duboc (P), captain of Air France flight AF 3532, was assisted by Copilot
Valerie Chauffour (CP) in making the Nice-London connection on January 28, 1994. At
I 1314 hours, while they were cruising at an altitude of 11,900 m in the vicinity of
I Coulommiers in Seine-et-Mame [Department] under excellent meteorological conditions,
the chief steward, who was present in the cockpit at the time, pointed out a phenomenon
that appeared to him to be a weather balloon. His sighting was immediately confinned by
I the copilot. P, who in tum saw it, first thought that it was an aircraft banking at a 45°
angle. Very quickly, however, all three agreed that what they were seeing did not
resemble anything that they knew of The excellent visibility and the presence of
altocumulus clouds permitted P to estimate that the phenomenon was at an altitude of
l 0,500 m and at a distance of approximately 50 km. Taking into account its apparent
I diameter, they deduced that the craft was large. They were struck by the changes in the
I shape ofthe craft, which first appeared in the form of a brown bell before transforrning
into a chestnut brown lens shape, then disappearing almost instantaneously on the left side
of the aircraft, as if it had suddenly become invisible. P reported to the Reims Air
I Navigation Control Center, which had no information on any mobile air presence in the
vicinity. However, following the existing procedure, Reims informed the Tavemy Air
Defense Operations Center (CODA) ofthe sighting made by the crew and asked P to
I follow the "Airmiss" procedure upon landing.
CODA did in fact record a radar track initiated by the Cinq-Mars-la-Pile control center
at the same time that corresponded in location and time to the phenomenon observed.
I This radar track, which was recorded for 50 seconds, did cross the trajectory offlight AF
3532 and did not correspond to any flight plan filed. It should be noted that the
phenomenon disappeared from the view of the crew and the radar scopes at the same
I instant. The investigations conducted by CODA enabled both the hypothesis of a weather
balloon to be ruled out and the precise crossing distance of the two trajectories to be
determined, consequently bringing the approximate length of the craft to 250 min length.
I It should be noted that the Northern Regional Air Navigation Center (CRNA), which
handles 3000 movements per day, has investigated only three cases over the last seven
years, one of which was that of flight AF 3532.
I Chapter 2 - Aeronautic Cases Throughout the World
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