AnomalyOn September 8, 1978, at around 7:15 PM, several people heard a whistling sound coming from the sky, followed by a loud noise. A farmer later found that the roof of his barn had sustained damage, and he found pieces of whitish ice of varying sizes. The sky that day was cloudy. The diameter and total weight of the hailstone could not be determined because it broke into several pieces. Some were taken by witnesses, and the others melted on the ground without leaving any particular traces. No other similar event occurred in the region that day. This rare phenomenon is nevertheless known in meteorology.
Aisne, France · 1978-09-08 · from the GEIPAN archive
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