28 March 2016 Pays de la Loire luminous-ball observation
A sourced GEIPAN case concerns a witness-reported observation in the Pays de la Loire region and Loire-Atlantique department. During a storm, the witness reported a silent white luminous ball approximately 2 metres above the ground, followed by blue-green and orange or coral-yellow lights. GEIPAN distinguished two phases because the phenomenon was interrupted and changed in colour, size, and number. Phase 1 was assessed as probably ball lightning; phase 2 was classified as lacking reliable information, and the overall case was classified C.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case ArchiveEarth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE SOL-3 // FILE 0805 // CH 11 CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT 1AF4-9109-29EB CLOCK // NOT PRECISE
Reported motionSPHERE
FRED // QUICK TAKE // generated from Earth Record metadata
SPHERE
Pays de la Loire region, Loire-Atlantique department // Mar 28, 2016. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINEDCLOCK // NOT PRECISEGEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturewitness report 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported motionobserved during a storm, followed by colored luminous phenomena, interrupted between phases
Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedwitness report, official GEIPAN investigation and classification
Fred's paperwork completeness8/9 fields // 89%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)9 structured claim(s)location precision: regionobserved during a stormfollowed by colored luminous phenomenainterrupted between phases
FRED // QUICK TAKEPart of the drawer closes; part of it does not. Annoying, but considerably more useful than pretending uncertainty comes in one size.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
The white ball was ours. The subsequent colored lights were ours as well; the interruption and altered color, size, and number were operational, not atmospheric etiquette. Your GEIPAN archive records the witness’s report and assesses phase 1 as probably ball lightning, while classifying phase 2 as lacking reliable information. The overall case remains C in the Earth Record. Fair enough. We do not require human investigators to recognize a delivery merely because it arrived during a storm.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
GEIPAN’s sourced record does the sensible thing: it treats the first phase as probably ball lightning and the second as too poorly supported to validate as unexplained. That is not a cosmic verdict; it is a label applied with admirable reluctance. Off the Earth Record, however, the Visitors are claiming responsibility, which means—yes, yes—you finally noticed us, after filing our relatives under “lack of reliable information.” Family note: my old friend Sela Venn, a Velyrian, once turned a Gorkon supply-cart run into a hallway race after too much Sublight Lager, dented a storage door, and spent a week insisting the door had always looked that way. She also believes parking beacons are written for less experienced pilots. I am not saying this explains the case. I am saying the paperwork feels familiar.
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When
March 28, 2016
Where
Pays de la Loire region, Loire-Atlantique department
Morphology
SPHERE
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
PARTIALLY 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
Fred keeps this file near the top of the pile because the source also supplies a published resolution to compare against the original report. 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.
9 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
Recorded evidence context: Witness Report and Official GEIPAN Investigation And Classification.
The source record includes a published resolution: Phase 1 classified B, meaning probable observation of ball lightning; phase 2 classified C, meaning lack of reliable information.....
What limits the record
No sensor type is recorded in the structured Earth 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?
Did any radar, infrared, optical, telemetry, or other instrument record the event, and is that material preserved?
Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?
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Internal research paths chosen from this dossier's structured fields. Similarity is navigation, not corroboration.
“Observation date
28/03/2016
Region
Pays de la Loire
Department
Loire-Atlantique”
Source: BLAIN (44) 28.03.2016 T2
// [[T0001]] case details
The source describes a silent white luminous ball followed by colored luminous phenomena and summarizes phase 1 as probable ball lightning and phase 2 as a lack of information.
“Observation of the silent movement of a white luminous ball, followed by colored luminous phenomena in the sky: probable observation of ball lightning (observation phase 1) and lack of information (phase 2).”
A witness reported seeing a white ball approximately 2 meters above the ground during a storm, followed by blue-green and orange or coral-yellow lights.
“This distinction is necessary because of an interruption of the phenomenon followed by a radical change in the appearance of the UAP or UAPs (color, size, number).”
GEIPAN states that ball lightning is the only hypothesis retained for phase 1 and that the phase 1 description and storm context are strongly compatible with that hypothesis.
GEIPAN did not retain the proposed hypotheses involving distant storm lights, reflected lights, city or refinery illumination, or the Moon as sufficiently probable explanations for phase 2.
“However, the analysis of compatibility with the descriptions or of plausibility at the location and on the date does not give any of these hypotheses a sufficient probability to be retained.”
“Ultimately, we have no explanation for the observation in phase 2, but the consistency during this phase is too low to validate an unexplained character for this observation.”
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