Guadeloupe, France · 2012-02-11 · from the GEIPAN archive
An air traffic controller from the control tower of the Martinique Aimé Césaire international airport reports an observation made by several people on February 11, 2012 around 11:10 PM. A green luminous phenomenon rapidly crossed the Caribbean sky from East to West. The controllers in Guadeloupe, police officers on the ground, and the pilots of AFR 3570 (Paris-Martinique) also saw it. The phenomenon of a very bright green ball crossing the sky in a few seconds immediately suggests a bolide, atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid (meteorite), or space debris. Space debris enters the atmosphere at about 7 km/s and crosses the sky over a duration of 20 seconds to a few minutes. Given the observed appearance and the duration of the phenomenon, the hypothesis of atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid (meteorite) is the one retained for this case classified as "B".
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