Sighting in (dep) Corse-du-Sud, March 8, 1987
Corse-du-Sud, Corse, France
Sighting on March 8, 1987 in (dep) Corse-du-Sud (Corse-du-Sud, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a meteor or fireball (class A).
What happened
During the night of 8 March 1987, at around 8:40 p.m., several witnesses heard a loud explosion. Another witness had noticed, just before the noise, a red object resembling a shooting star. It crossed the sky at high speed.
The GEIPAN investigation concluded that this was a meteorite entering the atmosphere. The case was classified A, meaning identified.
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 8, 1987
- Location
- (dep) Corse-du-Sud · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Meteors and fireballs
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1987-03-01104
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.