Fleeting fireball over Bourg-Saint-Maurice

Summary

Unable to sleep, a resident of Bourg-Saint-Maurice (Savoie) was watching the sky at 3:40 AM on November 16, 1998 when a fireball crossed the sky at astonishing speed in barely one second. No other witnesses were recorded. GEIPAN classified the case as B, considering it was likely a meteorite entering the atmosphere. The description of the flaming object and its extreme brevity are consistent with this type of natural phenomenon.