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Eure, France · 2013-05-19 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Eure, France

On May 19, 2013 at around 12:30 AM, several people observe from a balcony on the first floor the silent passage from the horizon toward the South of 6 to 8 glowing yellow-orange balls. The witness, facing North, observes luminous objects to the Northwest and sees them move away toward the South. The Meteociel data for Rouen indicates: cloudy sky, wind from the Northeast, after rain with wind from the North. This testimony is in every point consistent with the observation of Thai lanterns: appearance, duration, movement with the wind, time and day of the week consistent with the end of a celebration. The slightly rainy weather is indeed not very favorable for flying lanterns, but it still works under a few drops of rain. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of Thai lanterns.

 

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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.