Sighting in Grenade, June 14, 2013

At about 11 p.m., a witness standing in their yard saw two orange-tinted lights pass across the sky one after the other. They looked like red points moving slowly and silently along a straight path, on a weekend evening. That description is typical of Thai lanterns.

The Météociel record for Blagnac showed a light northwest wind. Since the witness saw the lights appear in the north, it made sense that the wind carried them eastward. The Calsky record showed the ISS passing shortly before 11 p.m. on a path very close to the one the witness described, but the timing did not fit well. The ISS is usually seen as a white or yellow point, rarely orange, and nothing would explain a second similar object right behind it. Aircraft taking off from Toulouse-Blagnac were also considered (with a northwest wind, landings come in from the south of Toulouse), but flashing lights would have been noticed.

The GEIPAN classified the case as B: the sighting was probably of Thai lanterns.