An account in Aude, France

Recent testimony (May 2015) of an old observation. The witness reports an observation made probably in July or August 2004 around 1:40 p.m. on the D6009 after Prat-de-Cest (11) in the municipality of Peyriac-de-mer. While driving, the witness sees arriving in the left corner of his windshield a yellow circular object at low altitude. The motorist stops and sees from the side a yellow disc cross the D6009 to move toward the A9 less than one meter above the green vines without making them move. Crossing the highway, the object goes vertical then resumes a horizontal trajectory to fly over the cars and then fly over an embankment. The witness loses sight of the object hidden by the highway embankment. The object seems to come from the Doule ponds to the East to head toward the West. No particular noise was noticed during the observation. No other testimony was collected. This observation proves to be of medium to high strangeness, because it reports a nearby phenomenon, with atypical behavior (see investigation notes). The consistency of this case is not high: it involves a single witness, and old memories, and above all the precise date is unknown, making any meteorological verification, for example, impossible. The only hypothesis considered, ball lightning, is not solid enough to be retained. This case is finally classified C for lack of date information and cross-checks.