A luminous object was observed in the sky on Sunday night, from various locations in Brittany and Pays de la Loire. The Fireballs site, which lists testimonies of celestial light phenomena, has received reports from Finistère, the Côtes d’Armor, but also from Loire-Atlantique and even from Sarthe.
The luminous phenomenon was observed around 6:30 p.m. and lasted a few seconds, according to thirty reports sent to the Vigie-Ciel/Fripon network, which monitors the sky thanks to a hundred cameras on French territory.
“A Very Light Phenomenon”
According to the observations made, it is “a meteor”, he explained to the newspaper the telegram Asma Steinhausser, coordinator of Vigie-Ciel participatory science projects. “We can even talk about a fireball, because it is a very bright phenomenon.”
A meteor is a “trail of light produced by the entry into the atmosphere of an extraterrestrial body. These bodies are small remains of rocks from asteroids or comets,” details the Vigie-Ciel website. “If the object is larger, on the order of several centimeters or tens of centimeters, the trail of light will be more intense. So we are talking about a meteor.
If pieces of this object are found on the ground, we can talk about meteorites. But little information about this meteor has been established at the moment, so it is difficult to realize its size and know where it stopped.
When the object stops its fall, it stops emitting light, explains Asma Steinhausser, “then we talk about dark flight, which is not captured by the cameras.”
Source: BFM TV
