An account in Alpes-Maritimes, France

On August 21, 2016 around 11:30 PM, a witness observed a first phenomenon entering the atmosphere with a white combustion but with phases of green and orange. A few minutes later, he noticed below his first observation a group of about twenty objects blinking at a constant rate and all clustered together rising in the sky. The phenomenon crossed the sky without noise. A neighbor also saw the phenomenon, but only one testimony was collected. The witness saw two phenomena. The first is probably the reentry of a small meteor. What seems to constitute the strangeness experienced by the witness and the origin of the testimony is the second phenomenon, a priori totally different from the first. It is probably a release of LED balloons from a boat at sea, rising into the sky with a wind pushing them toward the land (the east wind that evening allows this, as shown by the weather data), thus causing a large passage across the sky. LED balloons can take on any type of color, blink, change color, all in a random or predefined or even synchronized manner, all depending on the price. See the article on reusable (long-life) LED balloons. The summer period and the location are conducive to such festive events. The witness, not being a resident of the area, may have seen this for the first time. In conclusion, GEIPAN classifies the case as B: LED balloons.