Hérault, France · 2012-03-13 · from the GEIPAN archive
On March 13, 2012 at around 8:30 PM, a witness observes, from their terrace, the silent passage of a triangular formation made up of several green-orange colored lights passing at high speed and at low altitude. Another testimony will be collected on a phenomenon of very similar appearance that also occurred that same evening. Following an investigation entrusted to an IPN and given the information received, GEIPAN classifies this observation as B, probable observation of an atmospheric reentry of meteoroids (see investigation report).
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