Sighting in Saint-Égrève, March 13, 2014
Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Sighting on March 13, 2014 in Saint-Égrève (Isère, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a meteor or fireball (class A).
What happened
One evening, as the witness was closing their shutters, an object crossed the clear sky very quickly. It was oval and green, and the witness likened it to a bright leek surrounded by a red circle. The sighting was very brief and no sound was heard.
That same evening, many people in France and Switzerland saw a fast, bright and colourful phenomenon cross the night sky. A bolide was reported across a large south-eastern quarter of France and recorded at 21:59:47. The witness, for their part, placed the sighting at around 22:15.
The GEIPAN classified the case as A: the observation was very probably that 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 13, 2014
- Location
- Saint-Égrève · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Meteors and fireballs
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2014-03-08672
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.