La Réunion, France · 2010-01-06 · from the GEIPAN archive
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at around 7:30 p.m., a motorist and his passengers noticed the presence in the sky of an orange glow moving slowly across the sky. Of low strangeness and low consistency, this observation case has all the characteristics of a misidentification with a Thai lantern, with however some uncertainty about the positions and directions. This case is classified B: probable observation of a Thai lantern.
What stood out: an orange orb
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