Paris, France · 2011-04-07 · from the GEIPAN archive
On April 7, 2011 at 11:06 PM, a witness living on the 7th floor of a building noticed a luminous phenomenon in the sky that intrigued him. The witness describes it as a formation made of two rather oval parts very close together, changing from white to orange, then taking on a red color and disappearing without any particular noise. The observed phenomenon suggests two Thai lanterns moving away from the observer. The color changing from white to orange then to red, and the movement with the wind in a direction close to the line of sight, support this hypothesis. One can think that these lanterns were launched from the banks of the Seine not far from the observer, and then followed the wind, roughly from north to south. GEIPAN classifies this case as "B": probable observation of Thai lanterns.
What stood out: moving in formation
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