An account in Eure, France

On May 21, 2016 at 11:45 PM, a couple in a car observes, first while driving and then stopped, six glowing balls of an orange color moving slowly above a nearby castle. Two balls move on their own, one at the front and the other at the back of the group of the 4 remaining balls forming a parallelogram. All the balls move along a south-to-north trajectory. The first ball gradually disappears behind a cloud and the other five balls disappear all at once. No noise is heard. No other testimony will be collected. The witness's observation is characteristic of a release of Thai lanterns, both in terms of the colors, the shapes, the type of trajectory, including the extinguishing at the end of the burner's life. The occurrence on a weekend night, favorable to festive events, reinforces this hypothesis. The witness describes a movement from south to north, which is consistent with the wind direction measured at several stations 20 km away (see the Infoclimat record). Consequently, GEIPAN classifies the case as B: Thai lanterns.