Sighting in Paris, September 28, 2008

The witness reported this sighting on 19 April 2010, more than eighteen months after it happened. On 28 September 2008, they had seen two red points of light in the sky for about fifteen minutes. One stayed in place. The other moved slowly, then picked up speed and disappeared.

The investigation noted that the stationary light could have been the planet Venus, which was visible to the naked eye in the west at sunset, with a reddish-orange tint and a magnitude of -4.2. Mars, the red planet, could not have been what the witness saw: with an apparent magnitude of +1.5 and a position too low on the horizon, it was not visible to the naked eye. The moving red light could have been an aircraft.

Because the account was given so long after the event, no checks or further investigation were possible. GEIPAN classified the case as C, for lack of sufficient information.