Gironde, France · 2009-07-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
Recent testimony (July 7, 2013) about an old case from July 23, 2009. At 11 p.m. on July 23, 2009, a person lying on a lounge chair to watch shooting stars is surprised by the appearance behind a shed of a very bright ball. It moves silently, going up and down alternately about 2.5 meters from the ground. The ball then passes over the witness, who is still lying in his lounge chair. The ball, white and pale yellow in color, is the size of a child's balloon. The phenomenon disappears behind trees. The phenomenon shines like a sun and emits light rays. The description given by the witness evokes ball lightning. The witness does not mention any thunderstorm, but it was hot, and there had been a storm that morning. The testimony was submitted to a lightning specialist (Laboratory of lightning: laboratory of lightning) who unambiguously recognized a ball lightning phenomenon; the lightning strike records in Aquitaine were numerous that evening, which reinforces this hypothesis. GEIPAN classifies this case "A": observation of ball lightning.
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