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Aveyron, France · 2016-02-17 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Aveyron, France

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at around 6:20 p.m., a witness at their home sees through the window the N-S movement of a luminous point on a descending trajectory. The observation lasts 3 to 5 seconds. Only one testimony was collected. This is a fireball seen by many witnesses at the same time and in the south of France and listed by the IMO (International Meteor Organization). See the IMO website which lists more than 120 testimonies across different French regions. GEIPAN classifies this case as A: observation of a fireball.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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2016-03-14

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2016-01-16

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2016-08-07

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2016-08-23

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2016-01-30

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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.