2024-01-17 20:43:00
It was a strange light that crossed the sky this Tuesday, January 16 at 7:46 a.m. As the day broke, a real “ball of fire” was observed by the inhabitants of the south of France.
The lucky ones were able to see it from the Pyrénées-Orientales, to the Basque Country, at the Franco-Spanish border.
An extraterrestrial body
This fireball is actually an extraterrestrial body. It arrived from space and it was as it entered the atmosphere that it caught fire. Hence the brightness released during its passage.
It would be a “large diurnal bolide”, therefore a meteor, a body which causes a luminous phenomenon by entering the earth’s atmosphere at high speed.
The “ball of fire” literally rushed into the sky: its speed is between 10 and 20 kilometers per second, as reported by our colleagues from France Bleu.
A call for witnesses to reconstruct its trajectory
As numerous testimonies emerged, particularly on social networks, following the passage of this ball, which some claim to have seen green in color, scientists are calling for help to be able to reconstruct the trajectory of this “bolide”.
The call for witnesses was launched by the Fripon network on its Vigie-Ciel website: “If you have observed it, do not hesitate to send us an observation report online. It’s quick, fun, does not require skills in science or astronomy, and it can be very useful for us to reconstruct the trajectory of the object!”
What is the point of knowing this information? The extraterrestrial object was surely disintegrated in mid-flight, but if its precise trajectory were reconstructed, this would make it possible to identify the point of impact with the Earth if it exists.
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