Sighting in Poussan, March 14, 2014
Hérault, Occitanie, France
Sighting on March 14, 2014 in Poussan (Hérault, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a meteor or fireball (class A).
What happened
At around 7:30 pm, a driver and their daughter were looking through the windshield of their car when they saw a luminous phenomenon cross the sky at very high speed. The sky was cloudy. It appeared as a large, very bright point followed by a short trail, and it covered part of the sky in about one second before disappearing below the horizon.
Many other witnesses also described the event on online forums, and a video was recorded in Catalonia, Spain. According to GEIPAN, the brief passage, the look of the bright point and its trail match a bolide, meaning a meteoroid, a small rocky body, entering the atmosphere at very high speed. The case was classified A: identified as a bolide.
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 14, 2014
- Location
- Poussan · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Meteors and fireballs
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2014-03-08678
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