Hérault, France · 2012-08-20 · from the GEIPAN archive
Red lights in Hérault, France
On August 20, 2012 at around 10:30 PM, two witnesses observed the unusual and silent movements of a round, luminous object in the sky. It disappeared quickly.
The weather report from Béziers Cap d'Agde (very close to Mèze) for that evening shows a light, very unstable wind, from the West, then shifting to the North: the movements of the object observed by the witnesses are clearly the movements of an object carried by the wind;
Due to the fireworks that evening, one can think of an object such as a Thai lantern or another luminous balloon launched on the occasion of these festivities. The witness notes a white light, whereas witnesses of Thai lanterns most often speak of orange-red lights.
GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a luminous balloon (LED balloon).
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