RENTREE ATMOSPHERIQUE 31.01.2012

On 31 January 2012 at about 22:00, several witnesses saw a rapidly moving, multicolored light in the sky. People in Calmont (31) and Castelnaudary (11) supplied more detailed accounts; the Calmont account received a separate investigation. No catalogued space-debris object matched the event. The REFORME meteor-observer network recorded the meteor, considered very probably a natural meteoroid. Its duration of under 10 seconds suggested a speed well above 7 km/s, described in the source as the atmospheric-entry speed of launcher or satellite debris. GEIPAN classifies the case B: probable atmospheric entry of a natural meteoroid.