An account in Bouches-du-Rh�ne, France

A person testifies and files with the gendarmerie two videos taken by an automatic video recording station on March 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM. In the first sequence filmed at 2:34 PM (video M20090330_123414_LINER) one sees the passage traces of a commercial airliner, and in the second (video M20090330_123824_PAN) one notes the passage of an unknown scintillating object. This rare case of video recording (M20090330_123824_PAN) of a daytime luminous trail suggests a meteor. One notes however that its apparent speed (angular velocity) seems slow for a meteor, compared to the angular velocity of that of the airliner taken with the same device. One can explain this relative slowness as follows: since it is daytime and the sky is partially covered, one can only observe the most luminous part of the trajectory, which is the end of a meteor's trajectory, when the object is most slowed by the atmosphere. Another uncertainty about this meteor hypothesis: it is only acceptable if one considers the cloud cover sufficiently transparent, because the luminous phenomenon linked to a meteor is physically located above 10 km altitude; the video of the airliner's trail (probably above 3000 m) seems to confirm this hypothesis, but without certainty. The witness will send to GEIPAN another video taken on May 4, 2009: it shows the movement along an ascending trajectory of a ball of light, and for which GEIPAN currently has no explanations (video M20090504_162251).