La Réunion, France · 2009-12-19 · from the GEIPAN archive
Red lights in La Réunion, France
On December 19, 2009, between 8:30 PM and 9:30 PM, several witnesses observed the movements of intense red lights above the ocean. The main witness reports 5 observation sequences during which he claims to have seen the same light. The witness did not go to the local gendarmerie, and no other testimony was collected about this phenomenon. By letter dated June 9, 2010, the main witness informed GEIPAN that his observation was an observation of a Thai lantern.
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both described red lights · on the other side of the country
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both described red lights · on the other side of the country
On May 3, 2009 at around 10:15 PM, a witness is intrigued by the silent passage above their home of an object. White flashing lights at each corner outline, for the witness, a dark triangula…
both described red lights · on the other side of the country
On March 3, 2009, at around 8:30 PM, four people in a car on a country road were intrigued by the slow movement of three blinking, colored lights in the sky outlining a triangular object. Th…
both described red lights · on the other side of the country
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
A witness reports a five-second observation made on July 31, 2008 at 11:15 PM in a private garden. The witness observes 9 non-blinking points of light moving silently from East to West in th…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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