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Seine-Saint-Denis, France · 2016-06-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Seine-Saint-Denis, France

On Monday, June 27, 2016 at around 9 p.m., a witness is intrigued by a glow coming from an object moving upward in the sky. The object rotates on itself without a regular trajectory. The witness takes photographs. The object eventually disappears into the clouds. Only one testimony is collected. The testimony is consistent, with enough data provided and usable. There are also seven photographs, which could be partially used for the case analysis (see the investigation report). An in-depth analysis combining meteorological data (wind, clouds) and processing of the witness's photos (photo analysis with IPACO software) established that the observation very likely involved a novelty Mylar balloon moving in the direction of the wind. The witness could not recognize it, probably having never seen anything like it before, or not under similar conditions. Consequently, GEIPAN classifies the case as "A," as a very likely observation of a novelty Mylar balloon, 1 to 2 meters in length, carried by the wind.

 

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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.