Sighting in Arudy, March 1, 1992
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Sighting on March 1, 1992 in Arudy (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France). GEIPAN considers the phenomenon probably identified (class B).
What happened
At around 3:30 a.m., a witness and about ten guests at their home saw a luminous mass moving slowly across the sky. It left a trail of several different colors behind it. None of the guests was interviewed during the investigation.
At the same time, elsewhere in the département, other witnesses traveling by car saw a similar phenomenon that lasted 30 to 40 seconds. Each account is fairly brief, but taken together they suggest the sighting was an atmospheric re-entry. GEIPAN therefore classified the case as B: a probable observation of an atmospheric re-entry.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- March 1, 1992
- Location
- Arudy · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1992-02-01258
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.