Var, France · 2011-04-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
On April 5, 2011 at 5:21 a.m., a motorist's attention was drawn by a light arriving in the open sky. He describes a very bright bluish ball crossing the sky very quickly in a straight trajectory. The phenomenon then changes color to orange and seems to stop before disappearing. The front passenger made the same observation. Only one testimony was collected. This case of observation, of low strangeness and low to medium consistency, seems to us to have all the characteristics of an atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid. A classification A is however excluded in the absence of independent sources. This case is classified B as probable bolide: atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid.
On May 10, 2009 at 2:58 a.m., two people in a vehicle observe the rapid passage of a white sphere surrounded by a slight halo. The phenomenon moves along a straight trajectory from southwest…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 30, 2009 at 5:10 p.m., a family in a car is intrigued by the rapid and silent passage of a luminous phenomenon following a straight-line trajectory in the sky. Ovoid in shape, light…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 27, 2009 at one in the morning, a witness observed from his window the rapid passage from south to northeast of an intense and continuous green light. No noise was noticed during…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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