Sighting in Sainte-Julie, March 1, 2012

One evening at about 10:25 p.m., a motorist noticed a glow in the sky that caught their attention. They saw what looked like a huge "shooting star", yellow with a blue-white edge, followed by a blue trail. The witness was struck by its apparent size and put the duration of the sighting at around one second.

The investigation found that the straight path, the very fast movement and the bright light clearly matched a fireball, meaning the atmospheric entry of a meteoroid or of space debris. No space debris re-entry was recorded that day, and the reported duration was very short, so a meteorite fall was considered the most likely explanation. The REFORME network of meteor observers had not reported the event, at least not yet. GEIPAN classified the case as B, probably identified.