Sighting in Cesson-Sévigné, September 3, 2011
Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Sighting on September 3, 2011 in Cesson-Sévigné (Ille-et-Vilaine, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a sky lantern (class A).
What happened
On a Saturday evening, at about 11:15 or 11:30 pm, the witness and their spouse noticed several orange points of light moving silently in the sky above the south-western horizon. The observation lasted about two minutes. During that time, more orange points of light appeared and moved in the same way as the first ones.
The case had little strangeness, and the witness's particularly detailed questionnaire gave it very good consistency. GEIPAN concluded that the lights were most likely several Thai lanterns in the phase where their flame was going out. Once told of this hypothesis, the witness looked at photos and videos of such lanterns and recognised them perfectly as what they had seen. The case was classified A: identified object.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- September 3, 2011
- Location
- Cesson-Sévigné · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2011-09-08237
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.