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Witness typesWitness
Sensor typesMobile-phone video
Evidence typesWitness report, Video recording
The observation occurred on 5 August 2020 in the Franche-Comté region and Jura department.
Claim #7893 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation date
05/08/2020
Region
Franche-Comté
Department
Jura”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0001]] Case details
GEIPAN classified the case as B.
Claim #7894 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification
B”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0001]] Case details
The case summary describes five luminous balls moving at low altitude in the night sky and identifies them as a very probable misidentification of Thai lanterns.
Claim #7895 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Observation of successive appearances of 5 luminous balls moving at low altitude in the night sky: a very probable misidentification of Thai lanterns.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0001]] Summary
Between 10:45 p.m. and 10:55 p.m., the witness successively observed five luminous phenomena at an azimuth of 358 degrees and approximately 3 degrees elevation.
Claim #7896 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“On the evening of Wednesday, 5 August 2020, between 10:45 p.m. and 10:55 p.m., the witness successively observes five luminous phenomena at an azimuth of 358° (toward the North), at approximately 3° elevation.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0001]] Description
The phenomena had identical shapes, luminosities, sizes, directions, trajectories, and angular velocities; phenomena 3 and 4 were approximately 10 degrees apart.
Claim #7897 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“All have identical shapes, the same luminosities, the same sizes, the same directions and trajectories, and the same angular velocities.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0001]] Description
The witness observed intermittent disappearances and changes in luminosity and recorded a video with a mobile phone.
Claim #7898 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The witness also observes intermittent disappearances and variations in luminosity, as if the UAPs were entering a cloud or fog.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0002]] Description
The investigation found the observation compatible with Thai lanterns in appearance, trajectory, duration, manner of disappearance, and speed.
Claim #7899 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“The investigation confirms this second analysis by the witness. The observation is indeed compatible with Thai lanterns:”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0002]] Investigation findings
The trajectory of the phenomena was consistent with Thai lanterns following the same wind flow and with wind-direction data from the Tavaux weather station, 7 km away.
Claim #7900 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“the UAPs follow one another, heading southwest, which is typical of lanterns following the same wind flow and corresponds to the wind direction given by the weather station”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0002]] Investigation findings
The observation lasted five minutes, which GEIPAN considered compatible with lantern flight duration; the disappearance was probably caused by burners going out progressively.
Claim #7901 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“the observation lasted 5 minutes, which is compatible with a lantern flight duration, and the disappearance of the latter was probably caused by the burners going out, which can happen progressively.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0003]] Investigation findings
The witness-estimated speed of 16.57 degrees per minute was assessed as overestimated because the assumed distance was approximately 5 km; a distance of a few hundred meters would produce an estimated speed of 8 to 9 km/h, compatible with lanterns carried by the wind.
Claim #7902 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“If it is considered that the UAPs were probably rather a few hundred meters away, a speed on the order of 8 to 9 km/h is obtained, compatible with the speed of lanterns carried by the wind”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0003]] Investigation findings
GEIPAN classified the observation as B: very probable misidentification of Thai lanterns.
Claim #7904 // ASSESSMENT // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“GEIPAN classifies this observation as B: very probable misidentification of Thai lanterns.”
Source: DOLE (39) 05.08.2020
// [[T0003]] Conclusion
