AnomalyOn August 2, 2012 at 12:08 AM, two people are intrigued by the rapid and silent passage in the sky of a luminous phenomenon followed by a trail. This testimony has all the characteristics of the observation of a bolide (meteorite fall). The BOAM database records that night numerous observations of bolides, but not this one (note that the South of France is poorly equipped with cameras). The webastro forum indicates other simultaneous witnesses of the same phenomenon, a priori identified as such by an amateur astronomer. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of an atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid.
Tarn-et-Garonne, France · 2012-08-02 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Tarn-et-Garonne, France
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