Pyrénées-Orientales, France · 2014-07-13 · from the GEIPAN archive
On July 13, 2014, at around 3:15 p.m., three people from the same family on the beach at Argelès-Sur-Mer (66) are intrigued by the passage of a dark, blurry disk moving in the cloudy sky. No trail and no noise are noticed during the 3 to 4 minute observation. The phenomenon disappears by moving away toward the inland. Only one questionnaire is collected. An investigator was assigned to meet the witnesses. Three concluding elements emerge from this investigation (see the investigation report): 1. Consistency: this testimony is reliable; any hallucination or vision problem is to be ruled out due to the presence of multiple witnesses. Furthermore, the quantity and coherence of the information collected is good. This case is therefore fully consistent (0.8). 2. Strangeness: the strangeness of this phenomenon is relativized by the lack of testimony external to this family (0.45). 3. Hypotheses: plausible explanations have been proposed, but we were not able to provide formal proof. In conclusion, GEIPAN classifies this case in category B as a probable observation of an airship or free balloon (advertising or surveillance airship, or amateur balloon).
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