SAINT-JEAN-D'ANGELY (17) 21.10.2011

On 21 October 2011 at 21:05 near Saint-Jean-d'Angély (17), a motorist on the A10 first noticed a light crossing the sky, then luminous circles and a dust cloud in a field. The source describes the first chance sighting while driving as a fireball, calling it a falling meteorite. Afterwards, near the road above a field, he saw white lights, flashing lights and dust. GEIPAN finds the latter description strongly suggestive of a combine harvester, probably harvesting maize. It notes that agricultural machinery must have an orange rotating beacon, which could have remained on off-road. The case is classified B: probable combine harvester; the source includes photographs of harvesters at night.