UFO case file · UFO-41503
CHARVIEU-CHAVAGNEUX (38) 08.09.2012
CHARVIEU-CHAVAGNEUX (38), Rhône-Alpes, FR
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Case description
On 8 September 2012 at 23:00 in Charvieu-Chavagneux (38), 2 people saw 2 bright round red lights move slowly and silently. One took a different direction from the other and disappeared suddenly.
GEIPAN finds the description and photograph strongly suggestive of sky lanterns: red-orange balls moving slowly for a few minutes. Travel from south to north or northwest is not inconsistent with very light, unstable, predominantly southerly wind. Saturday evenings favour lantern releases. GEIPAN explains disappearance as the flames going out when the paraffin was exhausted. The case is classified B: probable sky lanterns.
Recorded details
- Local time
- 23:00
- Coordinate precision
- Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
- Date precision
- day