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- Photograph taken on April 22, 2002 in Andorra
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- An amateur cameraman will show the video taken on April
22, 2002. Specialists from different countries are interested in the phenomenon,
which has been classified as an Unidentified Flying Object.
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- The luminous object seen over Andorra on the evening
of April 22 has generated interest among some specialists who have examined
the material to be presented by an amateur videographer, along with several
still photos.
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- Many persons have seen the phenomenon and this newsroom
has received reports on the daytime presence of strange lights in the area
formed by Escaldes, la Massana and Ordino. The explanation routinely given
is that the image shows the planetary alignment. Other explanations given
mentioned the possibility of weather balloons, satellites, or the International
Space Station.
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- Jesus Serrano, a resident of Escaldes who has spent many
hours clarifying doubts, is the author of the video and a sequence of still
photogrpahs, which have been added to others such as the one taken by one
of EL PERIODIC's photogrpahers. The young man says that when he first saw
the luminous object, he reached for his camcorder and filmed it for approximately
one hour.
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- Both the trajectory of the object, as well as the change
in color and shape, detract from the possibility of the planetary alignment
[being the correct explanation]. The possibility of it being a satellite
or space station was discarded after checking the time the sighting occured,
as Serrano has explained. Now research is aimed at verifying if France
was conducting any type of experiment. The ufologists who have become interested
in the case are, among others, Spanish researchers Ramon Navia and Carlos
Gutierrez and Argentinean Miguel Angel Gonzales Pombo.
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- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology Special Thanks to Gloria Coluchi
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- Update
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- From Scott Corrales
- lornis1@juno.com
- 5-29-2
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- The following was received earlier from Luis Eduardo
Pacheco of Argentina's INFORME ALFA:
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- "Thanks to information submitted by Jean Jacques
Velasco of the SEPRA (Service d'Expertise des Phenomenes de Rentreés
Atmospheriques dependiente del CNES francés) it may be possible
to explain the sighting and recording of a UFO made by an amateur videographer
in Andorra on April 22, 2002. Said sighting would correspond to that of
a stratospheric balloon measuring 100 meters in diameter launched over
the Pyrenees from the balloon-launchinf facility that CNES maintains in
the town of Aire, on the banks of the river Adour in Las Landas.
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- The balloon launch took place from this center on April
22 at 15:49 UTIC. After the initial descent phase, the balloon achieved
flotation altitude, stabilizing at 40 km at around 18:33 UTC and remaining
at said stratospheric elevation for 1 hour and 40 minutes more, after which
it recived the remote command to separate the gondola. This package--with
a weight of 404 kg.--reached the ground and was recovered near the town
fo Foix in Southeastern France near the Spanish border.
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- The wind trakectory pushed it to skirt the Pyrenees along
a route which would place it approximately between Aire sur L'Adour and
Carcassone, making it highly probable that the object filmed over Andorra
that day was this balloon.
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- Unfortunately there are no further details on the case
beyond those appearing in "El Periodic d' Andorra"'s May 27 2002
edition, based on the image provided by said newspaper, the main data regarding
the sighting (multiple witnesses and long duration) and the presence of
the CNES balloon at the same place and time, make it highly possible that
this is the explanation for the sighting.
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- Translation (C) 2002. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special Thanks to Luis E. Pacheco, Informe Alfa
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