Vaucluse, France · 2011-12-25 · from the GEIPAN archive
Police witness in Vaucluse, France
The witness observes for one or two minutes an orange luminous point moving from East to North at about 45° elevation (see simulation on sky map, based on the witness's account) at a steady speed, and it disappears suddenly. A police report will be sent to us in March 2012. The characteristics described are compatible with those of a Thai lantern; the weather that day indicates a light, unstable wind, direction South to North at 8 PM and 10 PM (but N to S at 9 PM!) which may explain the movement in that direction, but without certainty. Given the holiday period, a lantern release that evening is not surprising. It is this hypothesis that GEIPAN retains: this case is classified "B": probable Thai lantern.
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