CARQUEIRANNE (83) 17.02.2012

On 17 February 2012 at about 08:20, a woman driving with her daughter saw a bright silver-white object in the sky. Its intense light made its apparently large size and rather flat, rectangular shape difficult to specify. It remained stationary and silent during the roughly 20-second observation. The driver looked away for 3 seconds to maneuver, then could no longer find it. GEIPAN received no other account. An assigned investigator questioned dozens of people; none confirmed the sighting, although many were taking children to school around 08:30 that morning. A cognitive interview added nothing to the first account. The brief sighting from a car, without corroboration, has insufficient evidential support. Because the witness was driving toward the Sun, a bright object's reflection in the windshield or sunlight reflected from a helicopter could explain it, but this could not be confirmed. Without additional accounts or evidence, GEIPAN classifies the case C: insufficient information and corroboration.