MARSEILLE (13) 31.07.1994

On 31 July 1994 at about 01:15, 2 witnesses saw a red hemisphere just above hills east of Marseille, about twice the Moon’s apparent size. It shrank and turned yellow, then disappeared as a thin line of light. They could not explain what they saw. The case was initially classified C for lack of information. In July 2012, investigators reconstructed it at the same place and time, considering a possible Saros-cycle recurrence (see the investigation report). After a convincing reconstruction 18 years later, GEIPAN reclassified the case A: misidentification of the rising Moon.