Red lights in Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigative experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classification. This observation case, previously classified D and named PANTIN (93) 30.05.1993, is part of a set of cases recently re-examined (see the investigation report). On 30 May 1993 at 4:15 a.m., a witness returning home after an evening out observed from her balcony an orange rectangular shape in the sky over PANTIN. The shape had an estimated size of about 1 metre and seemed stationary for 15 minutes, then moved slowly, changing direction, before moving away and disappearing at the horizon. The witness observed a flashing red light but no noise was heard. Still on her balcony, the same witness at 4:30 a.m. observed a second shape, circular this time and white, not dazzling, stationary. The size of this disc was also estimated at about 1 metre. The witness observed this second phenomenon continuously until 6 a.m., at which time the UAP disappeared very slowly. There are in fact two observations of two distinct UAPs. In the first instance, it is probably the landing lights of an aircraft in a night VFR approach phase to one of the two Paris airports located in the witness's line of sight. The landing lights of aircraft can indeed be seen from very far away, see for example on the GEIPAN website the case "EZE (06) 16.05.2014" where such an aircraft could be observed at a distance from the witness of about 36 km, and the other example "FONTRAILLES (65) 31.10.2017" where the aircraft's lights are visible and almost motionless in daylight from 100 km for more than 10 minutes. The distance prevents the witness from distinguishing anything other than these powerful lights, whose colour and brightness are, at night, mixed with the red anti-collision light located under the aircraft's fuselage, giving this shape of "orange rectangle" noted by the witness. The direction of movement towards the East, the low angular elevation above the horizon, the observation of a flashing red light after the aircraft pivoted on its axis, positioning it facing the runway, the slowness of the movement, as well as the absence of noise, support the hypothesis. In the second instance (see the case PANTIN (93) 30.05.1993 T2), the duration of the observation, the slow movement of the UAP in the sky, its circular shape and white colour, as well as its disappearance due to the clouds present in number that night, support the hypothesis of confusion with the planet Venus, rising in the east and moving slowly towards the east-southeast while gaining elevation. The witness probably is not in the habit of observing the sky at that late hour of the night and is not familiar with these astronomical phenomena. She scanned the sky probably following the attention or concern created by the first observation, which is the main observation to retain. The consistency is average and benefits above all from the reference points of the buildings, which partially compensates for the absence of angular measurement readings by the gendarmes during their on-site investigation. This case PANTIN (93) 30.05.1993 T1 is classified B: probable observation of an aircraft.