Sighting in Mornant, October 28, 2013

On the evening of 28 October 2013, a witness was driving at night on a departmental road when, at 10:50 pm, they noticed a red light in their rear-view mirror, in a clear sky. At 11:03 pm, on another departmental road near a sign marking a local place name, an orange, spherical object with a tail crossed their field of view quickly through the windscreen.

Other people were on the route, but no other testimony was collected.

GEIPAN rated the case as moderately strange with low consistency: a single witness, poor-quality testimony, and some doubt about the date. Each of the two observations is too imprecise to be formally identified. The witness's visual perception is not in question; the difficulty lies in how they interpreted what they saw, shaped by how they felt at the time (surprise, stress, tiredness, night driving). The case is classified C because of insufficient data.