Fireball over Lozère in May 1989

Summary

One night in May 1989, a man spotted an extremely bright fireball crossing the sky at high speed near Chanac, Lozère. Several kilometres away, a gendarme confirmed seeing the same phenomenon at roughly the same time, lending credibility to the account. The description is consistent with an object—natural or artificial—entering Earth's atmosphere. No debris was found on the ground and no further anomalies were recorded. GEIPAN classified the case as B: a plausible but not definitively confirmed explanation.