Sighting in Belfort, January 21, 2020
Territoire de Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Sighting on January 21, 2020 in Belfort (Territoire de Belfort, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a balloon (class A).
What happened
At around 4:45 to 5:00 pm, the witness looked out of their window and saw a dark object in the sky. Well below it, they made out four horizontal bands of different colours: red, green, blue and, for the fourth, possibly yellow, though they were not sure. The witness took a photo of the phenomenon. The object kept moving across the sky, rotating around a vertical axis, until nightfall.
GEIPAN considered the case solid, given the photo and the very good quality of the testimony. While trying to work out what they had seen, the witness found the answer themselves: it was a kite flown in a district of the town called the Pépinière, fitted with a GoPro camera. GEIPAN classified the sighting as A: an identified kite.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- January 21, 2020
- Location
- Belfort · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Balloons
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2020-01-50894
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.