Sighting in Doudeauville, May 28, 2012

An amateur astronomer was watching the sky in the direction of Mars at 1:10 a.m. when a white trail suddenly streaked across it, followed by a red-orange fireball. The phenomenon then disappeared toward the northwest, hidden behind the roof of the church. The witness then heard a muffled detonation. The next day, they searched around their home but found no trace of it on the ground.

The investigation relied on several objective elements: the object's shape, colour and behaviour, the white trail, the characteristic sounds, other witness accounts, and video recordings showing the same phenomenon at the same time. One of the recordings confirms that it vanished to the northwest. The phenomenon had all the characteristics of a bolide, meaning the fall of a meteoroid, commonly called a meteorite, which was seen from Normandy and the Paris region. GEIPAN classified the case as A: a certain observation of a bolide.