AnomalyOn November 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, a person observes for 15 seconds the silent and straight-line passage in the cloudy sky of a very bright round shape, orange-yellow in color. With a West/Southwest trajectory, the phenomenon is quickly hidden by the corner of the house. The observation of an orange-yellow ball moving horizontally on a Saturday evening suggests a Thai lantern released at the start of a celebration. But the witness observes in a very sparsely populated residential area, and one cannot see where this lantern, carried by the northwest wind, could have been released from. The weather recorded at Rodez does indicate a sustained NW wind and a cloudy sky. (see: weather. Given the brevity of the observation (15 seconds), it is difficult to confirm or rule out this hypothesis. No other testimony has been collected. One could also think of a ball lightning phenomenon, but very unlikely in this season. One nevertheless notes very unsettled weather that day. GEIPAN classifies this case "C" due to lack of information.
Aveyron, France · 2013-11-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Aveyron, France
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