An account in Loiret, France

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time as type "C" cases, which are now being re-examined, with the sole aim of being more relevant in the conclusions. Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classification explained in an investigation note. This observation case is one of the cases classified "C" in 1981 by GEPAN. On January 24, 1981 at 9:10 a.m., while driving in her vehicle, a witness spotted, despite the fog, a ball of fire-yellow color. It was moving in a NW-SE direction. Located high in the sky, the object seemed to be rotating on itself. This ball disappeared into the landscape. This case is moderately consistent (single witness), the description of the observed UAP is precise. The sincerity and credibility of the witness have never been questioned. The described phenomenon presents many common characteristics (observation duration, shape, size, color) with a perfectly known astronomical object: the Sun, seen through the fog. Moreover, the Sun was indeed present in the area of the sky observed, as was the fog. It is not the witness's visual perception that is in question, but the interpretation the witness makes of her observation through her feelings (astonishment, driving through the fog). In GEIPAN's current classification, this case of low strangeness is classified as UAP A, an observation linked to a misidentification with the Sun seen through the fog.