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Aveyron, France · 2002-02-07 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Aveyron, France

On February 7, 2002 at around 8 a.m., several independent witnesses observed the very rapid fall of an orange fireball. The observation was very brief (1 to 2 seconds): the ball had a trail and disappeared quickly. Other witnesses in a neighboring department also reported observing this phenomenon, which was probably an atmospheric reentry.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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2008-03-25

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2016-02-17

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1999-03-16

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2015-07-02

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1989-05-08

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2015-05-09

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1981-04-07

On April 7, 1981 at around 8 p.m., witnesses observed a fireball at an altitude of about 4,000 meters. It was followed by a colored trail and then seemed to fall in the surrounding area. No …

the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details

2002-04-06

On April 6, 2002 at 10:45 PM, several independent witnesses spread across several departments observed the very rapid fall of a fireball that made no noise. All witnesses stated that the obs…

the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details

2000-09-10

On September 10, 2000 at around 10:50 a.m., two different witnesses observed the simultaneous fall of two incandescent luminous balls with a significant white trail. No noise was detected an…

the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.