GRIESHEIM-PRES-MOLSHEIM (67) 30.04.2012

On 30 April 2012 at about 21:30 in Griesheim-près-Molsheim (67), a witness saw an orange point move across the sky followed by 3 others. They followed a continuous rising path and gradually disappeared. He recorded videos. The source summary describes successive passages of 2 groups of orange lights, while the narrative details one light followed by 3. GEIPAN finds low strangeness and good evidential substance from the videos, despite fairly common directional imprecision. The case has all the features of sky lanterns released for festivities on the eve of 1 May. Local wind direction cannot be established with certainty, although the general tendency before a nearby storm was compatible. Wind-path verification is therefore insufficient, and rain is also unfavourable for a lantern release. GEIPAN did not search for the people who released them. The case is classified B: probable sky lanterns.