An account in Bas-Rhin, France

On Saturday, December 6th at 10:18 PM, a witness observes three luminous points of an orange-red color moving silently and together in the sky along a trajectory from northwest to southeast. The witness has just enough time to take three photos before the phenomenon is hidden by the roof of the building. He will observe a fourth object with the same characteristics and moving along the same trajectory. The observation lasted about fifteen minutes in total. The characteristics noted (orange-red color, slow and straight movement consistent with the wind measured to within a few degrees) very strongly suggest a misidentification with a flight of festive lanterns (known as Thai or Chinese lanterns). The time and day (Saturday after 10 PM, Saint Nicholas Day, widely celebrated in Alsace) are perfectly consistent with this hypothesis. This observation case is a classic of misidentifications with festive lanterns. This case is classified as B, meaning very likely observation of festive lanterns.

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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.