VALENCE (82) 02.08.2012

On 2 August 2012 at 00:08, 2 people in Valence saw a luminous phenomenon with a trail cross the sky rapidly and silently. GEIPAN considers the brief account characteristic of a fireball, described parenthetically in the source as a meteorite fall. BOAM recorded many fireball observations that night but not this one; the source notes sparse camera coverage in southern France. Webastro's forum contains simultaneous reports from other witnesses of the same phenomenon, apparently identified as a fireball by an amateur astronomer. GEIPAN classifies the case as B: a probable meteoroid entering the atmosphere.