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The cometary globule CG 12 and its associated young cluster NGC 5367 is located at a Galactic latitude of b = 21°, and the origin of this high-latitude star formation event has been unclear. Getman et al. identified a nearby group of B stars and suggested they could be the remnant of a group of massive stars of which one exploded as a supernova. We here use Gaia EDR3 data to measure the accurate distance of NGC 5367 and the B-stars. We find a mean distance of 670 pc for NGC 5367 and 675 pc for the B-stars, strongly supporting the suggestion of Getman et al.