Isère, France · 2014-08-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 1 a.m., a person is frightened to see through the window the silent passage in the sky of a fireball. Its trajectory is straight. The observation of the phenomenon is very short. No other testimony will be collected. The observation for one minute of a fireball slowly moving away in the sky, on a weekend night, suggests a Thai lantern probably released at the end of a party. In this case, the proximity of a hall where a wedding was taking place makes this hypothesis highly probable. The witness sees the object fly off toward Saint-Etienne de Crossey, to the northeast. A weather check on the weather stations of Grenoble-Le-Versoud and Grenoble-Saint-Geoirs indicates a weak, highly variable wind, therefore undeterminable in this valley area. Despite this entirely plausible Thai lantern hypothesis, GEIPAN, for lack of cross-checking, classifies this case "C": no other witness, local wind undetermined.
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