Puy-de-Dôme, France · 2013-04-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Puy-de-Dôme, France
On April 1, 2013 at around 9:15 PM, two people from their home are intrigued by the slow and silent movement of an orange glowing ball that then moves away more quickly and disappears instantly. The very detailed account of this observation, "a yellow-orange ball, with no trail whatsoever," moving in the direction of the wind from the North (see Meteociel data for Vichy), clearly suggests the movement of a Thai lantern (sky lantern), probably launched during a celebration on this public holiday (Easter Monday). GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a Thai lantern.
On Friday, August 2, 2013, around midnight, a family in a car is intrigued by the silent and rapid movement of a bright orange ball in the clear sky. The object will disappear, hidden by the…
On Saturday, September 29, 2012, two witnesses observe in the night sky the silent passage of thirty to forty luminous red-orange spheres. They appear spaced at a regular frequency and move …
On October 18, 1977 at 12:24 a.m., a witness observed for 4 minutes a luminous point in the sky that approached, made a wide curve while losing altitude, and seemed to stop above a hill. The…
On March 15, 1979, at around 7:25 a.m., five people working on the repair of a railway track noticed a luminous phenomenon that intrigued them. An orange glow the size of a football slowly c…
On the night of September 5, a little girl got up to close the window of her bedroom, which had been opened by a gust of wind. She saw a luminous object outside in the sky, about 100 meters …
On October 28, 1978, at around 7:10 PM, several witnesses observed the rapid passage from East to West of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. The witnesses describe a fireball with a luminous …
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
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 Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 11:30 PM, a motorist and his passenger were intrigued by several orange luminous phenomena moving silently in the sky over Lille. Only one testimony was col…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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