Pas-de-Calais, France · 1954-10-21 · from the GEIPAN archive
On October 21, 1954 at 7:30 PM, two police officers observe for at most 15 seconds a very bright luminous trail that silently crosses the sky at high speed in a North-South direction. In the dark night with a clear sky and visible stars, this trail has the shape of a cone with the point forward and the base extended by numerous sparks. Its trajectory is horizontal. Although the witnesses rule out (incorrectly) a meteor "because of the size of its dimensions and the horizontality of its trajectory," this is probably what they saw. GEIPAN classifies this case as B: probable observation of the passage of a fireball caused by the re-entry into the atmosphere of a natural meteoroid that fragments.
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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.
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