Ariège, France · 2016-07-30 · from the GEIPAN archive
On July 30, 2016 at 4:15 in the morning, a witness closing his shutters observes a large, very bright orange point about 20 to 25 degrees above the horizon in the cloudy sky. He first thinks it is a fire in the forest, then an atmospheric re-entry. His observation lasts 2 to 3 minutes before the phenomenon gradually disappears by spreading out lengthwise in the shape of an inverted "L". Only one testimony is collected. The witness was fooled by the Moon, which happens when the Moon is low and partially visible between clouds, the luminous shape observed then being that of the gap between the clouds, here an inverted L. The reconstruction from the witness's drawing on a photo and the sky chart leaves no doubt. GEIPAN classifies the case as A: misidentification with the Moon.
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