Haute-Garonne, France · 2010-03-17 · from the GEIPAN archive
On March 17, 2010, at around 8:40 p.m., a motorist observed an orange luminous phenomenon that intrigued him just above the horizon. He stopped and took photographs facing west just before the phenomenon, then shaped like a crescent moon, disappeared. The ephemerides for March 17, 2010 (and March 16) show at 6:40 p.m. UT, i.e., 8:40 p.m. local time, the last phase of the new moon just above the horizon, still lit by the sun and visible in the form of a faint orange crescent (as photographed and described by the witness).
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