Gard, France · 2015-05-15 · from the GEIPAN archive
On Friday, May 15, 2015, at around 10 p.m., a motorist and his female passenger observed numerous passages of white glows with a slight trail behind them in the night sky. The observation lasted 7 minutes over 8 kilometers on country roads. Only one testimony about this phenomenon was collected. This observation (improperly considered a fireball by the witness) takes place about one hour after sunset, in the last light of dusk, only 10 km from the Camargue ponds and their thousands of large birds: it is the end of the "evening passage" when the last birds leave the ponds and join their "roost" inland. This bird hypothesis was indeed considered by the witnesses, but rejected because they thought of nocturnal birds, which is probably not the case, especially given the multiplicity of passages; However, GEIPAN did not collect concrete elements to confirm this hypothesis, and the description given by the witnesses is quite brief (white glow with a slight trail behind), GEIPAN classifies this case "C" for lack of cross-checking.
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