Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France · 2014-04-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
On April 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, a witness looking at the clouds is intrigued by the passage of a white spherical shape followed by several others. The witness's account of small spherical objects moving under the cloud ceiling suggests a release of balloons. The Météociel weather report for Pau, very close to the observation site, indicates that day a change in wind direction, shifting from Southeast at 10 AM to Northwest at 2 PM with increasing cloud cover. The wind at 1:30 PM is fairly uncertain, rather from the N to NW sector. The wind is therefore very variable at that moment, but rather oriented North-Northwest at the time of observation, that is, in the opposite direction of the observed movement. No aircraft traffic is indicated in that area on Flightradar24. The balloon hypothesis is not confirmed, unless considering a wind variation more frequent than the hourly report. In doubt, GEIPAN classifies this case "C" due to a lack of simultaneous information on the local wind.
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