Sighting in Montcresson, August 19, 2012

During the night, a witness noticed a colored luminous phenomenon in the sky and found it intriguing. The sighting took place between 1:10 a.m. according to the questionnaire and 1:21 a.m. according to the witness's email. No one else came forward.

The account was brief and contained contradictions, and the witness's interpretation of what they had seen went too far. The observation itself was short. It is unclear whether the phenomenon was near the horizon or high in the sky. The length of the different phases is also in doubt: they are described sometimes as lasting several minutes, and sometimes as separated by only a few seconds.

GEIPAN rated the case as moderately strange but of low consistency. The description was too incomplete to be properly analyzed or to allow identification. Because of the lack of information and of corroboration, it was classified C.