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Haute-Garonne, France · 2013-06-14 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haute-Garonne, France

On June 14, 2013 at 11:00 PM, a witness in their yard is intrigued by the successive passage of two orange luminous phenomena. The description of red dots moving slowly and silently in the sky on a weekend evening evokes Thai lanterns. The Météociel report from Blagnac indicates a slight northwest wind: since the witness sees them appear in the north, they are logically carried toward the east. The Calsky report of visible satellites indicates the passage of the ISS station shortly before 11:00 PM, on a trajectory very close to the one indicated by the witness, but the time does not fit a priori. The ISS is generally perceived as a white or yellow dot, rarely orange. Moreover, there would be no explanation for the second similar object right after. One could also think of planes taking off from Toulouse-Blagnac (landings are done from the south of Toulouse with a northwest wind): but the blinking lights would have been noticed. 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.