Fleeting luminous triangle over Castanet-Tolosan

Summary

In September 2000, a man in Castanet-Tolosan briefly glimpsed a triangle formed by luminous points that disappeared behind a building without making any sound. The nearby airport radar logged three unknown traffic tracks, but the DGAC determined these were parasitic returns caused by an aircraft outside radar coverage.

Eighteen years later, GEIPAN reviewed the case and dismissed the radar data as irrelevant. The testimony itself is ambiguous: it is unclear whether the reported orange color referred to the individual points or the shape as a whole, and the duration of the sighting is imprecise. With insufficient reliable information to classify it as unexplained, GEIPAN closed the case without a definitive resolution.