An account in Gard, France

On July 8, 2014 at 9:33 PM, a witness is intrigued by the straight-line passage of a very bright rectangular shape. During the 6 to 8 seconds of observation, the fast object moves silently. No other testimony has been collected. The witness observes a yellow rectangle advancing above the horizon. The sun has been set for 8 minutes. The witness looks toward the southeast, and sees the object pass from left to right (see his drawings). An airplane, lit from the side by the setting sun, appears as a very bright rectangle (the wings do not receive the sun's rays directly; the fin, flat, reflects the sun in a different direction than the cylindrical fuselage). The gray halo around the object may be an atmospheric optical phenomenon, fairly complex at low elevation, or a local glare phenomenon at the level of the observer's eye. The Flightradar data indicates a candidate airplane for this observation: flight AF Orly-Marseille on approach to Marignane. GEIPAN classifies this case "A": observation of an airplane at sunset.