AnomalyOn December 1, 2013 at around 5 p.m., people walking on the customs officers' path in Bandol are intrigued by the presence in the sky of a bright glow to the west of the sun. The glow persists after sunset and allows two bright points to be seen with the naked eye, orange-yellow in color, stationary. They fade after 15 minutes. Only one testimony is collected. Red-orange trails at sunset clearly evoke airplane contrails made brilliant by backlighting. See: strange airplane trails. The attached "flightradar24" site data indicates the planes visible that day. Airplane contrails are visible up to 120 km in these excellent visibility conditions. Due to the distance and the direction of the plane moving away, the trail appears at a very shallow viewing angle, giving a flattened perspective of the phenomenon. For the same reasons, the angular speed of movement of the phenomenon appears slow. GEIPAN classifies this case as A, as perfectly identified.
Var, France · 2013-12-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
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