Meteorite in France 1983

Summary

On June 6, 1983, at 23:00 hours, hundreds of people across southern France observed a fast-moving, elongated light in the sky. Witnesses from the Alps to the Eastern Pyrenees reported a brief luminous event, often lasting less than 20 seconds. With 29 testimonies recorded, the common description of an elongated shape and the simultaneous timing across a wide area suggests a single phenomenon. The GEIPAN concluded it was the atmospheric entry of a meteorite, a common event now documented by automated cameras. Despite the lack of images from that time, the witnesses' descriptions are clear and consistent with this type of phenomenon. The B classification indicates a probable observation of a meteorite entry.