PEIGNEY (52) 04.06.2012

On 17 August 2016, GEIPAN received a questionnaire about a sighting in 2012. On 4 June 2012 at about 03:00, a witness looking through the living room's large window saw an orange, column-shaped light toward Fourches hill in Langres. After 15 seconds it went out abruptly. The witness then saw 2 yellow luminous balls moving around the first light's location; these also went out abruptly. The next day, the witness visited the presumed location and found no burned grass or trampling. Only 1 account was collected. GEIPAN finds little strangeness in lights at ground level at 03:00 on a hill 2 km away. The witness suggested a campfire or flame and noted that the nearby chapel could accommodate scouts. Agricultural machinery surrounded by people carrying lamps is another possibility. The absence of burned grass or trampling at the presumed location the next day does not exclude all these explanations. The same witness made a similar observation in 2016: ground lights moving around a central glow on the same hill, a few tens of meters away. That sighting also has low strangeness and probably the same origin. GEIPAN classifies the case B: ground lights such as a vehicle or campfire and people carrying flashlights.