Pyrénées-Orientales, France · 2010-08-13 · from the GEIPAN archive
Around 8 p.m., a witness observes, for three minutes and from his balcony on the 5th floor, a phenomenon that intrigues him: above a circular-shaped cloud, he notes in the sky the presence of two groups of objects, one made up of white silver spheres and the other of two red spheres. The north-south movement of these groups is silent. The witness takes photographs. The characteristics of the observation suggest a flight of balloons. The photos received by GEIPAN are of poor quality and only allow the two red spheres described by the witness to be distinguished (zoomed photo file IMGP0422). It can be noted that at 9 p.m., the USAP-ASM rugby match was taking place at the Aimé Guiral stadium in Perpignan, before which, for example, balloons could have been released (red is one of the colors of the "sang et or"). The 3-minute observation duration is compatible with the distance separating the stadium from the observation location (about 2 km) and the speed (33 km/h with gusts up to 57 km/h) and wind direction (northwest wind) given by the day's weather report. The case is classified as B, as the probable observation of balloons released about 2 km from the observation location.
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