Hérault, France · 2013-07-22 · from the GEIPAN archive
On Monday, July 22, 2013 at around 6:15 p.m., a witness observes the movement of a bright object, streaking across the sky, without noise and at very high speed. This person describes a silver object, bulging in shape, like a "boater hat." The approximate trajectory given is SE-NW in an area of airplane traffic for the Montpellier-Fréjorgues airport. This very short observation (2 to 3 seconds) of a bright object in the sky, by a single witness, is poorly documented (no diagram). The strangeness of this observation lies in the speed of the object's movement. If one considers that the object crossed a field of view of 60° in 3 seconds, and that it was at 200m, this already corresponds to a speed on the order of 270 km/h. It could be a small object carried by the wind at 15 or 20m, but in that case it would involve a strong illusion in the witness's estimation of the object's distance. The weather report indicates a wind from the South to Southwest of about 18 km/h, weakening, which could possibly fit with this last hypothesis. Further investigation would yield little additional information. GEIPAN classifies this case as "C" due to a lack of precise information and a lack of cross-checking.
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