Sighting in Pont-Audemer, August 13, 2013

The witness reported two things: fixed points of light that they said were in the sky every evening, with no further detail, and a brief luminous phenomenon that night, at around 2:35 a.m. local time. The investigation considered only the second event. There was not enough information about the fixed points, which were very probably stars.

The witness saw a bright light move across the sky at high speed, in a straight line, for about 2 seconds. This strongly suggests a fireball, meaning the entry into the atmosphere of an asteroid fragment (meteoroid) or a piece of satellite debris.

An automatic camera belonging to the BOAM meteor observers' network, located at May-sur-Orne about 65 km from the sighting, recorded many fireballs that night, at the height of the Perseid meteor shower. Three of them roughly matched the sighting within a 5-minute window around the reported time. GEIPAN therefore classified the case as A: fireball.