An account in Rhône, France

In the night of February 28 to March 1, 2017, around 2 a.m., a witness is intrigued by a particular glow in the sky. He describes a large craft shaped like a "boomerang," matte black, with white lights and other blinking orange ones. It seems stationary and silent. Surprised and almost frightened, the witness sits down on the living room sofa. The UAP will have disappeared when he resumes his observation. Only one testimony was collected. The witness was frightened by what he saw and as a result gives little information. He did not extend his observation in a way that would allow him to indicate any possible movement of the UAP and especially to describe an end to the observation of this UAP. The only available elements are compatible with an observation of a group of orange and white lanterns, although the weekday night is less favorable for this type of festive event (though a birthday is not always celebrated on a weekend); the perception of a black shape does not contradict this, since it is verified that witnesses of lanterns often believe they see a black shape connecting the lights (perception phenomenon). The lack of perception of movement does not allow correlation with wind direction and therefore does not consolidate the lantern hypothesis. No civil or military aviation traffic records can explain this observation (but radars do not always capture objects flying at low altitude). GEIPAN does not have enough information to process an observation whose strangeness is moreover limited insofar as it remains compatible with a lantern release. Consequently, GEIPAN classifies the case as C: lack of information.