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Seine-et-Marne, France · 2014-04-20 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Seine-et-Marne, France

On April 20, 2014 at 9:37 PM, a witness observes for 2 minutes the movement along a south-north trajectory of three glowing balls of a yellow-orange color, appearing larger than an airplane. The balls appear incandescent and disappear leaving a trail. The witness takes photographs. This testimony is typical of observations of Thai lanterns: orange balls moving slowly in a straight line at low altitude, according to the wind, on a weekend evening. The Meteociel data for Melin confirms a weak south wind. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": very probable observation of Thai lanterns. Given the low strangeness of this observation, GEIPAN did not search for those who released them.

 

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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.