Somme, France · 2015-07-16 · from the GEIPAN archive
On Thursday, July 16, around 11 p.m., a witness in his garden spots a large glow in the night sky. The witness describes a fireball of orange color moving silently, grazing the tops of nearby trees. Its trajectory is linear, then it slowly disappears at the horizon. Earlier, her partner was able to take a photograph that will be attached, scanned, to the gendarmerie report. Only one testimony will be collected. The description matches typical characteristics of a Thai lantern (color, trajectory), and its movement is consistent with the wind direction measured a few kilometers away, from E to W (see the weather on Infoclimat). The witness says it does not look like what he once saw of a lantern. But lanterns can take on variable appearances depending on their color, altitude, and flight phase. Consequently, GEIPAN classifies this case as B: Thai lantern.
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