Sighting in Vielle-Saint-Girons, August 4, 2007
Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Sighting on August 4, 2007 in Vielle-Saint-Girons (Landes, France). According to GEIPAN, it was most probably a balloon (class B).
What happened
At around 2 p.m., a family watched a small, bright sphere. The object moved across the sky at varying speeds and changed direction during the sighting.
GEIPAN rated the strangeness of the case as low, since most of the characteristics described match those of known phenomena, in this case a balloon. The investigation rested on a single account, collected through a questionnaire, with no gendarmerie report. Even so, the information supplied was plentiful, of good quality, objective and reliable. The proposed explanation is plausible, and the case was classified B: a very probable sighting of a balloon.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- August 4, 2007
- Location
- Vielle-Saint-Girons · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
- Explanation
- Balloons
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2007-08-01806
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.