Sighting in Saint-Brandan, January 4, 2015
Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France
Sighting on January 4, 2015 in Saint-Brandan (Côtes-d'Armor, France). According to GEIPAN, it was most probably a sky lantern (class B).
What happened
Around 7:20 pm, a witness and their spouse were sitting in their car when they noticed three fixed, orange-yellow points of light in the sky. They watched them for about five minutes, after which the three lights went out one after another.
The investigation found that orange-yellow balls going out one by one on a weekend evening strongly suggest Thai lanterns, most likely released nearby for the start-of-year festivities. Their apparent lack of movement fits with the very light southerly wind of 2 to 4 km/h recorded by the weather station at Saint-Brieuc. GEIPAN classified the case as B: probable sighting of Thai lanterns. To date, it has received no other testimony relating to this observation.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- January 4, 2015
- Location
- Saint-Brandan · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2015-01-09074
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