Sighting in Gironde, December 10, 1991
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Sighting on December 10, 1991, exact location not given (département: Gironde, France). According to GEIPAN, it was most probably the atmospheric re-entry of a space object (rocket stage, debris) (class B).
What happened
In the evening, witnesses in the Gironde and Hautes-Pyrénées areas saw a luminous phenomenon. The source gives no precise time, duration, exact number of witnesses, or details of the phenomenon's shape, colour or path.
The GEIPAN concluded that the characteristics described pointed to an atmospheric re-entry. The case is classified B, meaning probably identified: the observations were most likely of an event of that kind.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- December 10, 1991
- Location
- Gironde · region only
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- B
- Explanation
- Re-entries
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1991-12-01255
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.