Earth File #1175 // SOURCED record

Reported observation of about ten yellow-orange lights near Bourg-les-Valence

The GEIPAN case record reports that a couple in a car observed about ten silent yellow-orange points of light moving south, with the source assessment describing movement from north to south and then southwest. The observation reportedly lasted three minutes, and mobile-phone photographs were taken. GEIPAN classifies the case as B, considering Thai lanterns very probable; the photographs were assessed as blurred or out of focus but consistent with the reported phenomenon.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 1175 // CH 03
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
73DC-0DA5-D863
NIGHT
SENSOR CONTEXT WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported motionLIGHT
FRED // FIELD ASSESSMENT // generated from Earth Record metadata
LIGHT
Bourg-les-Valence // Apr 28, 2014 22:00. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
EXPLAINED NIGHT GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturecouple in a car, two testimonies 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported motionsilent, moving south, reported movement from north to south and then southwest
Sensor / evidencemobile-phone cameraphotographs, gendarmerie investigation
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)6 structured claim(s) location precision: locality silentmoving southreported movement from north to south and then southwest
FRED // FIELD ASSESSMENTAn interesting report is allowed to have an explanation. This is why the label stays attached to the box even after the mystery gets less glamorous.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
At Bourg-les-Valence, we observed the event but did not cause it. The GEIPAN record reports that a couple in a car saw about ten silent yellow-orange lights moving south for three minutes and took mobile-phone photographs. Separately, the record describes movement from north to south and then southwest, compatible with recorded wind. GEIPAN classifies the case as B: a very probable observation of Thai lanterns. We have no competing explanation. Gorkon Outpost has requested the paperwork anyway.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
GEIPAN’s sourced assessment is refreshingly unglamorous: case B, with Thai lanterns judged very probable. The reported lights, wind-compatible movement, and photographs do not require a spacecraft—and blurred photographs remain blurred photographs, however nobly the filing describes them. The Visitors were observers only, off the Earth Record; that does not identify what crossed the sky. It merely prevents us from blaming my relatives for every luminous object humans politely decline to recognize. Family note: Mivra Qel once stopped an observation pass to watch a county fair from a safe distance, then spent forty minutes arguing over whether the Ferris wheel qualified as primitive orbital infrastructure. She had Red Dwarf Stout. She also considers restricted corridors advisory.
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When
2014-04-28 22:00:00
Where
Bourg-les-Valence
Morphology
LIGHT
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
EXPLAINED

Why Fred Thinks This Case Matters

AlienBox comparative analysis from structured Earth Record fields // not a new source // not a change in evidence grade
Console archetype // Published-resolution comparison

Fred keeps this file near the top of the pile because the record names 1 sensor type, the source also supplies a published resolution to compare against the original report, and visual-media evidence is explicitly referenced. That combination makes the case useful for cross-archive comparison without changing its evidence grade.

The source record includes a published resolution field. AlienBox treats it as an attributed source assessment to compare with the original report, not as an AlienBox verdict.

What strengthens the record

  • 1 linked source document provide provenance for the Earth Record.
  • 6 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
  • Recorded sensor context: Mobile Phone Camera.
  • Recorded evidence context: Photographs and Gendarmerie Investigation.
  • The source record includes a published resolution: Thai lanterns, classified by GEIPAN as very probable (case classification B)..

What limits the record

  • The structured record does not establish multiple independent observers.
  • The current dossier is anchored to one source network rather than independent source networks.

What would help resolve it

  • Can the originating record establish an exact number of observers and whether their observations were independent?
  • Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?

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Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typescouple in a car, two testimonies
Sensor typesmobile-phone camera
Evidence typesphotographs, gendarmerie investigation
The case record labels the phenomenon type as a Thai lantern.
Claim #12695 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Type of phenomenon Thai lantern”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0001]] case details
On April 28, 2014, at 10 p.m., a couple in a car reportedly observed about ten silent yellow-orange points of light moving south; the observation lasted three minutes and photographs were taken with a mobile phone.
Claim #12696 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“On April 28, 2014, at 10 p.m., a couple in a car was intrigued by about ten points of light in the sky. Yellow-orange spheres moved silently toward the south. The observation lasted 3 minutes before the spheres disappeared into the distance. A few photographs were taken with a mobile phone.”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0001]] Description
The source reports that two testimonies were collected and that the gendarmerie investigation found no particular events or other witnesses in the area that evening.
Claim #12697 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 96% extraction confidence
“Two testimonies were collected about this phenomenon. The gendarmerie investigation did not find any particular events or other witnesses in the”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0001]] Description
The source states that the observed movement from north to south and then southwest was compatible with a north to northeast wind recorded at Bourg-les-Valence.
Claim #12698 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 97% extraction confidence
“The movement was observed from north to south, then southwest, which is compatible with the north to northeast wind recorded at Bourg-les-Valence.”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0002]] Description
The photographs were assessed as out of focus or blurred from movement, while the source states that they nevertheless prove the reality of the phenomenon and that its color was consistent with Thai lanterns.
Claim #12701 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 95% extraction confidence
“The witness took a few photographs: they turned out to be out of focus (focus blur, very common in night photographs under these conditions) or blurred from movement. They nevertheless prove the reality of the phenomenon, and the color of the phenomenon is entirely consistent with that of Thai lanterns.”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0002]] Description
GEIPAN classifies the case as B, meaning a very probable observation of Thai lanterns.
Claim #12703 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“GEIPAN classifies this case as “B”: very probable observation of Thai lanterns.”
Source: BOURG-LES-VALENCE (26) 28.04.2014 // [[T0002]] Description
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