SAINT-ANDRE (66) 14.07.2012

On 14 July 2012 around midnight, a woman driving saw 3 white lights move silently before the landscape quickly hid them. She reported this in 2013 together with another sighting from 7 years earlier, using one questionnaire. The earlier account was too imprecise to consider. The 14 July evening setting suggests 3 festive windborne objects: illuminated balloons or sky lanterns. The very short sighting prevents determining their direction and comparing it with the strong northwest tramontane wind. Variations in the lights favor lanterns, but lanterns usually appear yellow or orange. The case does not have every lantern characteristic, but GEIPAN considers it certainly related to 3 windborne luminous objects. It classifies the case B: illuminated balloons or sky lanterns.