SIX-FOURS-LES-PLAGES (83) 05.01.2015

On 5 January 2015 at 19:41, a witness at Six-Fours-les-Plages saw a single very bright white-blue-green phenomenon with a trail cross part of the sky rapidly in a few seconds. As the witness suspected, GEIPAN considers the observation characteristic of a fireball, described in the source as the upper-atmospheric phenomenon caused by a falling meteorite. The REFORME network confirmed the hypothesis, as documented in the attachment. GEIPAN classifies the case A: atmospheric entry of a meteoroid.