Aude, France · 2011-01-27 · from the GEIPAN archive
Photographed in Aude, France
A person takes photographs of a rainbow and notices, the next day, on one photograph, three spherical gray spots that they cannot explain. Without direct observation at the time the photo was taken, it is very difficult to explain the nature of the spots that appear in the photos. The small black spot(s) cannot be explained by insect(s) flying very close to the lens: the spherical shape and the season (winter) do not match. The luminance of the main "object" is comparable to that of the electrical wire, which indicates that the distance between the object and the lens was probably on the order of the distance separating the electrical wires from the camera lens. The explanation that comes to mind is the presence of balloons: small helium-filled balloons that moved away or went into the clouds before the next photo. Due to the absence of direct observation, no research was done on the origin of these balloons.
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