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This French Gendarmerie procès-verbal, no. 600 of 1990, is held in the GEIPAN (CNES) files. It records two farmers who phoned the gendarmerie on 6 November 1990 and were formally heard on 14 November. Both saw a luminous trail on 5 November 1990 around 18:30 to 19:00: a round red or orange object topped by a small light, moving west to east for 20 to 40 seconds. Press clippings are attached, and the report notes NASA's conclusion that the lights were a Soviet rocket third stage re-entering the atmosphere.
This synthesis note from SEPRA, the CNES service that succeeded GEPAN, describes the luminous phenomenon seen over much of France around 19h on 5 November 1990 and how the service handled it. It counts 1,108 testimonies, among them 233 gendarmerie reports, and analyses the reported times, durations, shapes and pilot accounts. A NASA telex identified the object as the re-entering third stage of the Soviet rocket that launched Gorizont 21. The note concludes that France needs better space detection and faster exchange of information.