Red hemisphere over Marseille solved eighteen years later

Summary

In July 1994, two witnesses in Marseille saw a red hemisphere roughly twice the apparent size of the Moon that shrank, turned yellow, and narrowed to a thin line of light before vanishing. Initially classified C for lack of information, the case was re-examined in 2012 through an on-site reconstruction at the same time. Investigators found the phenomenon matched the moonrise, whose position and phase — linked to the Saros cycle — exactly reproduced conditions that night. GEIPAN reclassified the case as A, attributing it to a confusion with the rising Moon.