Sighting in Tournefeuille, August 17, 2014
Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
Sighting on August 17, 2014 in Tournefeuille (Haute-Garonne, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty: it was a meteor or fireball (class A).
What happened
At about 9:10 p.m., a witness looking out of an open window saw a large fireball cross the sky at high speed. It was followed by a short, very bright and luminous yellow-white trail. After moving horizontally, the phenomenon vanished. The sighting lasted only a few seconds.
The GEIPAN, based at the CNES site in Toulouse about 12 km from the witness, has a camera that is permanently ready to record this kind of event. It filmed the same phenomenon at 9:11 p.m. In the video, it appears at the upper left of the circle, which corresponds to the south-east direction.
The GEIPAN classified the case as A: it was definitely a bolide, a fast, straight-line passage of a large fireball, which was also captured by the GEIPAN camera.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- August 17, 2014
- Location
- Tournefeuille · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
- Explanation
- Meteors and fireballs
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 2014-08-08954
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.