Isère, France · 2013-02-16 · from the GEIPAN archive
On February 16, 2013 at 7:32 PM, a witness observes, through a French door, the very rapid and silent passage of an orange ball in a straight trajectory. An orange ball crossing about 45 degrees of the sky from East to West in 3 seconds suggests an atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid (meteorite). The absence of a trail and the spirals described by the witness are not incompatible with this hypothesis, but are a priori rare. The BOAM camera network does not mention any event at that time, but there is no camera covering the south of the Alps. GEIPAN received no other observation report that day. Despite a few surprising characteristics, GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a bolide (atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid).
What stood out: an orange orb
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