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Lot, France · 2010-07-28 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Lot, France

On July 28, 2010 at around 10:15 PM, several people observed the passage of luminous objects shaped like hot-air balloons. No noise was heard during the observation, which lasted 5 minutes. Only one witness reported their observation. The investigations carried out by the gendarmerie concluded that this was a probable observation of Thai 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.