SAINTE-JULIE (01) 01.03.2012

On Thursday 1 March 2012 at 22:25, a motorist in Sainte-Julie saw what he described as an enormous shooting star: yellow with a bluish-white edge and a blue trail. Its size impressed him. GEIPAN considers the straight path, very rapid movement and strong light characteristic of a fireball from a meteoroid entering the atmosphere or space debris reentering. Because the witness gave a duration of roughly 1 second and no space-debris reentry was listed that day, GEIPAN favors a natural meteoroid event, described in the source as a 'meteorite fall'. The REFORME meteor observers' network had not reported the phenomenon, with the source wondering whether a report might still follow. The case is classified B.