AnomalyOn July 28, 2013 at 3:20 a.m., two witnesses observed from the first floor of their home two red-orange luminous phenomena, circular in shape and flattened. They moved across the sky along a slightly ascending and straight trajectory. The observation lasted one to two minutes, with no particular noise heard. Only one testimony was collected. The observation of several red-orange lights moving together in a straight line, on a summer night from Saturday to Sunday, lasting 2 minutes, clearly suggests the observation of Thai lanterns, probably released at the end of a party (more than 400,000 Thai lanterns are sold per year in France). The weather report at Charleville indicates a weak and unstable wind: the weather report shows a very variable wind at that moment, which does not allow this hypothesis to be fully validated, though it remains for now compatible with the observation. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a Thai lantern.
Ardennes, France · 2013-07-28 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Ardennes, France
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