Bolide observed in Pont-Audemar in 2013

Summary

A witness reported fixed bright points in the sky every night, but only a brief phenomenon on August 13, 2013, was considered relevant. This consisted of a bright light moving rapidly across the sky for two seconds, clearly identified as a bolide. Bolides are typically the result of asteroid fragments or space debris entering the atmosphere. That night, the location was near a camera from the BOAM Meteor Observatory, which recorded several bolides during the Perseid meteor shower activity. Three of them approximately matched the witness's description, within a five-minute window around 2:35 AM. The GEIPAN classified this observation as "A," confirming it as a known natural phenomenon.