Earth File #1223 // SOURCED record

Saint-Vigor-le-Grand: yellow fire and black smoke observation

A motorist heard a detonation and immediately observed a large burst of yellow fire with black smoke above a field. The phenomenon disappeared quickly. GEIPAN classified the case as B, with a probable explanation as an illuminating flare, although the launch origin could not be determined.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 1223 // CH 13
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CASE FINGERPRINT
7D7D-8871-791B
DAYLIGHT
WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported motionLIGHT
FRED // PLEASE DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEM // generated from Earth Record metadata
LIGHT
Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, Calvados, Lower Normandy // Nov 28, 2013 12:10. 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 picturemotorist, possible second observer 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported motionpreceded by a loud detonation, disappeared quickly
Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedwitness testimony, official investigation and classification
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 preceded by a loud detonationdisappeared quickly
FRED // PLEASE DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEMPart 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
Your GEIPAN record describes a motorist hearing a detonation at 12:10 on 28 November 2013 near Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, then observing yellow fire and black smoke above a field. It also records that the phenomenon disappeared quickly and classifies the case as B, probably an illuminating flare, with launch origin undetermined. The origin was ours. We used the flare because it was adequate, brief, and administratively difficult to classify. A satisfactory outcome by our standards.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A brief burst, black smoke, a detonation, and a probable illuminating flare: GEIPAN’s Class B label is doing useful work here, especially since the launch origin remains undetermined. “Unidentified” is not a synonym for “ours,” despite the Visitors’ current enthusiasm for claiming every dramatic flare-up in the filing cabinet. Off the Earth Record, my internal records say this was not ours. The confusion may concern my cousin Mivra Qel, an Orinthian who once detoured from a routine observation route to watch an Earth drive-in from above, fortified by Zero-G Root Beer, and neglected the small matter that navigation lights are visible from below. She has never met a restricted corridor she considered personally binding. I am correcting the Visitors’ paperwork accordingly.
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When
2013-11-28 12:10:00
Where
Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, Calvados, Lower Normandy
Morphology
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Evidence authority
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Resolution
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Why Fred Thinks This Case Matters

AlienBox comparative analysis from structured Earth Record fields // not a new source // not a change in evidence grade
Console archetype // Published-resolution comparison

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What strengthens the record

  • 1 linked source document provide provenance for the Earth Record.
  • 7 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
  • Recorded evidence context: Witness Testimony and Official Investigation And Classification.
  • The source record includes a published resolution: GEIPAN class B: probable illuminating flare; launch origin undetermined..

What limits the record

  • No sensor type is recorded in the structured Earth Record.
  • The structured record does not establish multiple independent observers.
  • The current dossier is anchored to one source network rather than independent source networks.

What would help resolve it

  • Can the originating record establish an exact number of observers and whether their observations were independent?
  • Did any radar, infrared, optical, telemetry, or other instrument record the event, and is that material preserved?
  • Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?

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Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typesmotorist, possible second observer
Sensor typesNot stated
Evidence typeswitness testimony, official investigation and classification
The case concerns a brief observation of yellow fire and black smoke in the sky, preceded by a loud detonation, with a probable explanation as an illuminating flare.
Claim #13170 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Brief observation of a yellow fire and black smoke in the sky, preceded by a loud detonation: probable observation of an illuminating flare.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0001]] Case details — Summary
On November 28, 2013, at 12:10 p.m., a motorist heard a detonation and immediately observed a large burst of yellow fire with black smoke above a field.
Claim #13171 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“On November 28, 2013, at 12:10 p.m., a motorist heard a detonation and immediately observed in the sky above a field a large burst of yellow fire, with black smoke all around it.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0001]] Case details — Description
The phenomenon disappeared quickly.
Claim #13172 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“The phenomenon disappeared quickly.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0001]] Case details — Description
Another person on an adjoining road appears to have looked in the same direction at that moment, and no other testimony was collected.
Claim #13173 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 93% extraction confidence
“Another person, on a road adjoining the one where the witness was located, appears to have looked in the same direction in the sky at that moment.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0001]] Case details — Description
The origin of the launch could not be determined, although the source states it may have been the motorist on the parallel road who was also looking at the sky.
Claim #13174 // UNRESOLVED // SOURCED // 97% extraction confidence
“The origin of the launch cannot be determined, but it may have been the motorist who was on the road parallel to the one where the witness was and who was also looking at the sky.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0002]] Case details — Description
GEIPAN classifies the case as B: illuminating flare.
Claim #13175 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Consequently, GEIPAN classifies this case as B: illuminating flare.”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0002]] Case details — Description
The case region is Lower Normandy and the department is Calvados.
Claim #13176 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Region Lower Normandy Department Calvados”
Source: SAINT-VIGOR-LE-GRAND (14) 28.11.2013 // [[T0001]] Case details
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