Sighting in Ham, February 17, 2013

At about 7:50 p.m., a witness and their spouse saw four red-orange points of light lined up above the village. The lights drifted slowly and silently toward the two observers. Over the course of the sighting, which lasted roughly ten minutes, more identical points of light appeared.

In a telephone interview, the witness told the GEIPAN that the phenomenon came from the "1 o'clock" position relative to them. They were driving into the village, heading east. The glowing balls crossed the road almost directly overhead, then disappeared behind the sugar factory buildings on the north side of the road. They were therefore moving from the east/southeast toward the west/northwest, although the witness gives a different direction in the detailed account.

The wind recorded at Albert at that time was blowing from the southeast, which matches the direction in which the objects moved. The red-orange colour, the grouping of the lights and the similarity of their paths all point toward Thai lanterns passing by. The GEIPAN classified the case as B: probable sighting of Thai lanterns.