Sighting in Paris, June 5, 2010
Île-de-France, France
Sighting on June 5, 2010, exact location not given (département: Paris, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a sky lantern (class A).
What happened
At around 11 p.m., a witness watched a luminous phenomenon for a few seconds. It was made up of five white and yellow halos, and it moved silently in a straight line toward the northwest.
The witness later learned that a case from the same date at Tournan-en-Brie (77) had been classified and published. They then contacted the GEIPAN, thinking that what they had seen might be the same phenomenon, a release of lanterns. A second account was collected, describing a similar sighting made from the Île Saint-Louis between 10:50 and 11:13 p.m. that same evening.
The investigation concluded that the sightings were of Thai lanterns drifting across the sky. The case was classified A, meaning identified.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- June 5, 2010
- Location
- Paris · region only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2010-06-02586
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.