Charente-Maritime, France · 2013-10-30 · from the GEIPAN archive
Hovering in Charente-Maritime, France
On October 30, 2013, between 6:50 PM and 8:30 PM, three witnesses observe a red luminous phenomenon in the sky, which appears and then seems to hover above a nearby forest. The phenomenon disappears and reappears later, still fixed in the sky. The phenomenon eventually goes out like a halogen lamp. Two people give testimony. The observation of orange spheres in the sky for a few minutes suggests Thai lanterns, but this case is nonetheless unusual on several points: - It is not a Saturday evening. But it is Halloween, which could have been an occasion for a release.
- The objects seem stationary: the witness, questioned by phone, was looking toward the northwest (see map), that is, with his back to the slight southeast wind (see the weather report at Île d'Oléron) and saw an object carried by the wind drift slowly away from the witness, and it seems motionless.
- A second object appears in the same place 15 minutes later: one might think, as often in these cases, that there were several releases of lanterns, which would have followed strictly the same trajectory. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of Thai lanterns.
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