An account in Val-de-Marne, France

The witness observes, very early in the morning, a very bright object moving without sound. The trajectory is reminiscent of a shooting star. The observation of a "very bright thing" crossing the sky at high speed, appearing much lower than a shooting star, clearly suggests a bolide. The BOAM network (see attached document) reports at 2:27 UT (4:27 local time) the video recording of an apparently similar phenomenon, by a camera located in Gretz-Armainvilliers in Seine-et-Marne, facing East-Northeast at an elevation of around 50°. This time of year is fairly favorable for observing this type of phenomenon (Eta Aquariids meteor shower), and GEIPAN has received other series of similar testimonies during the same period. GEIPAN classifies this case as "A": observation of a bolide, resulting from the atmospheric re-entry of a meteoroid probably originating from the Eta Aquariids meteor shower (coming from the direction of the constellation Aquarius).

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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.