Sighting in Treuzy-Levelay, April 20, 2014
Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
Sighting on April 20, 2014 in Treuzy-Levelay (Seine-et-Marne, France). According to GEIPAN, it was most probably a sky lantern (class B).
What happened
At 9:37 pm, the witness watched three yellow-orange glowing balls move across the sky from south to north for about two minutes. They looked bigger than an aircraft and seemed incandescent. In the end they disappeared, leaving a trail behind them. The witness took photographs.
GEIPAN considered the account typical of sightings of Thai lanterns: orange balls drifting slowly in a straight line at low altitude, carried by the wind, on a weekend evening. The Météociel data for the Melin station showed a light southerly wind, which matched the path described. The case was classified B, a very probable sighting of Thai lanterns. Because the observation had little strangeness, GEIPAN did not try to trace whoever released them.
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 20, 2014
- Location
- Treuzy-Levelay · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
- Explanation
- Sky lanterns
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2014-04-08697
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.