Eure, France · 2013-07-21 · from the GEIPAN archive
Red lights in Eure, France
On July 21, 2013 at around 4 a.m., a witness is intrigued by the fixed presence of a dark red light in the cloudy sky. The witness's direction of observation (Courcelles) corresponds to azimuth 230°. The witness indicates a round, red object 4 times larger than the Moon, at a height of 25°, and specifies that the sky was cloudy, with no visible celestial body. It is noted that the Moon is precisely at azimuth 231°, at a height of 4.6°. It is highly likely that the witness was a victim of the classic Moon illusion, where the Moon always appears very large at its rise or set. The Moon, partially hidden by a cloudy veil, did not reveal the details of its surface that would have allowed the witness to identify it. After waking up in the middle of the night, it is common for rare phenomena to greatly surprise witnesses. GEIPAN classifies this case as "B": probable observation of the Moon (the notable difference in the height of the phenomenon in the sky justifies that this case is not classified as "A").
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