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Nord, France · 2011-04-21 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

On Thursday, April 21, 2011, several people observed the silent passage in waves of orange luminous phenomena in the sky. The photos submitted are similar to those of many other cases that ended up being observations of Chinese lanterns. The swirling winds present that evening can explain the trajectory described by the witness. Even though no formal testimony corroborates a release of lanterns, Geipan retains this hypothesis as highly probable.

 

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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.