La Réunion, France · 2008-12-14 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 14, 2008 at around 9 p.m., several witnesses observe for 20 seconds the silent passage of a spherical object of orange color. The movement is from East to Northwest on a straight trajectory with no trail. The object disappears after a flickering of its brightness. One of the witnesses states that similar balls were seen the previous week. The Makes observatory, contacted on this subject, refers to "wish lanterns" of the same type as Thai lanterns. This hypothesis will be confirmed by the main witness, who will observe them again on Christmas evening.
On Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 10:59 PM, a witness is intrigued by the silent passage in the sky of an orange ball. He takes a photograph. The description of an orange ball moving in a straight …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 31, 2012 at around 9:15 PM, a witness observed in the sky toward the northwest the silent passage from north to south of several orange, non-blinking points of light. A second witne…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On Sunday, September 6 at 12:24 a.m., a witness observed from the terrace of their home the passage of 12 glowing yellow-orange balls in the sky. The movement was silent along an upward traj…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
There are thousands more like this in the record. Open one at random, or read the ones the most people recognise.
Read anotherMost recognisedOr if something like this happened to you, write it down and we will look for the others who saw it too.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.
Anomaly