Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2013-03-31 · from the GEIPAN archive
On March 31, 2013 in Marseille around 9:20 PM, three people see in the sky the silent movement of an object that is orange in color and intensely bright. The object comes from the West and passes over the witnesses' home, then turns to the right and disappears toward the Southeast. Only one testimony out of the three will be collected. It is noted that the direction of movement indicated by the witness (Salon de Provence toward Aubagne-Cassis, that is, Northwest and toward Southeast) is the same as the wind direction recorded at Marignane that evening. This observation has the characteristics of a Thai lantern (sky lantern): linear movement lasting a few minutes, silent, in the direction of the wind, orange color, on an evening of a public holiday. Due to the low strangeness of this case, GEIPAN did not do any research to find the person who released it. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a Thai lantern.
At 10:10 PM, the witness looks out the window and sees an orange-colored luminous point moving away, silent, which stops and then disappears while speeding off quickly. The observation of an…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 20, 2011 at around 10:05 PM, a witness observed in the sky the straight-line and silent movement of a red object, with lights at its center. This testimony indicates the characte…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On July 4, 2015, around 11 p.m., a witness is intrigued by the movements of a round, red-orange, luminous shape in the night sky. No sound is heard during the observation. The object disappe…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
There are thousands more like this in the record. Open one at random, or read the ones the most people recognise.
Read anotherMost recognisedOr if something like this happened to you, write it down and we will look for the others who saw it too.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.
Anomaly