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ARD reviews the Greifswald lights and the military-flare explanation

The German public-broadcaster feature places the 1990 Baltic lights within a program about UFO misidentification and reports the flare explanation.

Das Erste's W wie Wissen episode distinguishes unidentified reports from identified objects and discusses the Greifswald formation as lights associated with a military exercise over the Baltic.

It gives the case a mainstream German-language account focused on identification rather than sensational interpretation.

The television feature is a later explanatory account, not the complete military record or an independent reconstruction of every image and witness position.