An account in Finist�re, France

In the night of September 7 to 8, 2013 at 1:25 a.m., a couple notices in the sky the East-West movement of about thirty luminous points of a whitish color. The speed is constant, no noise, no trail, and no blinking lights are noticed. The observation of dozens of luminous points flying together in a straight line on the night from Saturday to Sunday is fairly common, and clearly suggests Thai lanterns, probably launched at the end of a wedding. It is noted that the witness is observing 800 meters from the Saint-Aignan castle, which organized a wedding dinner that evening. It is not possible to correlate the direction of movement with the wind recorded at Bordeaux-Mérignac at that time because the wind, very weak, changed direction at least every hour, and the proximity of the Dordogne can cause local breezes. 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.