An account in La Réunion, France

Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience gained over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new observations or even a change of classification, explained in an investigation note. This observation case is one of the cases classified as "C" in 1981 by GEPAN. On June 7, 1981, around 11 p.m., two witnesses observed a luminous object in the direction of the sea. Above this object was a half-moon-shaped star that gradually transformed and grew larger. The object itself did not change position and disappeared after about eight minutes. The described phenomenon presents many common characteristics (observation duration, shape, size, color) with a perfectly known astronomical object: the Moon at setting. Moreover, the Moon was indeed present in the area of the sky observed, while the witnesses do not mention it. In GEIPAN's current classification, this case of low strangeness is classified as PAN A, an observation linked to a misidentification with the Moon.