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UFO case file · UFO-42176

SALLES-LA-SOURCE (12) 17.02.2016

CE1FR2016-02-17

SALLES-LA-SOURCE (12), Midi-Pyrénées, FR

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Case description

On Wednesday 17 February 2016 at about 18:20, a witness looking through a window at home in Salles-la-Source saw a point of light moving rapidly north to south on a descending path for 3–5 seconds. Only 1 account was collected for this case. GEIPAN identifies it as a fireball seen simultaneously by many people in southern France and recorded by the International Meteor Organization. The source refers to the IMO website, which lists more than 120 accounts across different French regions. GEIPAN classifies the case A: a fireball.

Recorded details

Local time
18:20
Coordinate precision
Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
Date precision
day

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