Sighting in Plobsheim, July 5, 2009
Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Sighting on July 5, 2009 in Plobsheim (Bas-Rhin, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a sky lantern (class A).
What happened
During the night of 4 to 5 July 2009, several people standing in a garden noticed lights in the sky. The lights moved slowly and made no noise, arranged in a V formation. They then vanished suddenly.
The gendarmerie investigation established that the lights were Chinese lanterns, about fifty of them, released during a wedding from a neighbouring golf course. GEIPAN therefore concluded that the witnesses had seen flying lanterns passing by, and the case is classified A (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
- July 5, 2009
- Location
- Plobsheim · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2009-07-02431
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