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France, France · 2014-09-07 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in France, France

On September 7, 2014, at around 7 a.m., many people in the south of France observed the passage of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. These observations were the subject of articles in the local press. GEIPAN received several testimonies. This phenomenon has all the characteristics of a meteoroid re-entering the atmosphere (a small rocky body orbiting the Sun). The phenomenon occurred vertically above Spanish Catalonia, the inclination is steep (about 65°), and the phenomenon occurred between 60 and 25 km in altitude. In the opinion of astronomers, the meteoroid behind this phenomenon was not on a trajectory close to asteroid 2014RC, which grazed Earth at less than 40,000 km on the same day. The two phenomena are not linked. This observation case has a maximum consistency of 1 due to multiple testimonies and recordings by several cameras. This case is very little strange after analysis. GEIPAN therefore classifies this case as "A": observations of a large fireball, resulting from the re-entry of a meteoroid into the atmosphere.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.