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Gironde, France · 2010-01-01 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Gironde, France

In the night of December 31, 2009 to January 1, 2010 at 12:30 a.m., a witness is intrigued by the slow west-to-north movement in the sky of a red ball with a yellow outline. The phenomenon is observed for about three minutes before making a sudden "departure." Weakly strange and very little consistent, this observation case is a probable misidentification with a Thai lantern. This case is classified B: probable observation of a Thai lantern.

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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.