Pyr�n�es-Atlantiques, France · 2013-11-06 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Pyr�n�es-Atlantiques, France
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 6:00 PM, several people are intrigued by the presence in the sky of a sort of fireball in the sky, followed by oblique trails of the same color (flaming orange). The witness films the scene. Only one testimony will be collected.
The observation of bright orange trails in the sunset sky clearly evokes the contrails of distant airplanes illuminated by the sun already below the horizon.
The video confirms this hypothesis, as does the "Casperflights" record of airliners, very numerous in this area at that time (Northern Europe / Spain-Portugal-Morocco traffic). The first video (descending vertical trail) corresponds to a plane moving away from the witnesses, while the other horizontal trails correspond to planes traveling from North to South, about fifty km West of Pau.
Exceptional meteorological conditions made this spectacle particularly remarkable that evening.
GEIPAN classifies this case "A": observation of airplane contrails.
On October 2, 2013, two teenagers observe around 10 p.m. the fall of a round luminous object with green trails in the direction of the town of Rantswiller. This case was handled by the genda…
On July 14, 2013 at around 11:45 PM, a witness observed 5 orange light sources moving in the sky over Toulouse. The witness then made a second observation of the movement of a slightly opale…
On February 13, 2013 at around 9:15 PM, witnesses in Alsace and Lorraine (including 6 people in the Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower) observed the silent passage of a luminous phenomenon fo…
On October 20, 2013, between midnight and one in the morning, two people walking together are intrigued by the presence in the sky of a set of equidistant lights forming a triangle. Only one…
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 deg…
On August 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, two people are intrigued by the presence above a tree of a blinking orange ball that then rises into the clear sky and will be hidden by a neighboring building…
both described an orange orb
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