Sighting in Paris, April 7, 2011
Île-de-France, France
Sighting on April 7, 2011, exact location not given (département: Paris, France). According to GEIPAN, it was most probably a sky lantern (class B).
What happened
A witness living on the seventh floor of a building noticed a luminous phenomenon in the sky at 11:06 p.m. and found it puzzling. It looked like a single group made up of two rather oval parts very close together. Their color changed from white to orange, then to red, and the phenomenon finally vanished without any particular sound.
GEIPAN's investigation found that the description matched two Thai lanterns moving away from the witness. The color change from white to orange to red, and the drift with the wind in a direction close to the witness's line of sight, support this explanation. The lanterns may have been launched from the banks of the Seine, not far from the witness, and then carried by a wind blowing roughly from north to south. GEIPAN classified the case as B: probable observation of Thai lanterns.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- April 7, 2011
- Location
- Paris · region only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2011-04-02754
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.