AnomalyOn December 8, 2009, between 7:20 and 7:30 a.m., a witness observed for 10 to 20 seconds the passage of a luminous ball in the sky. Its movement was horizontal along a west-east trajectory. This ball disintegrated by breaking into two or three pieces before disappearing. The described phenomenon, moving horizontally at high speed and separating ("exploding") into several pieces, seems to match the characteristics of an atmospheric reentry.
Calvados, France · 2009-12-08 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Calvados, France
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