Grey metallic object with orange halo over Charny-sur-Meuse

Summary

On August 15, 2007, between 23:25 and 23:45, a witness observed a dark grey metallic object surrounded by an orange halo and trailing streaks across a clear sky. It moved from east to northwest for six seconds and vanished abruptly without any sound. Investigators concluded that the described characteristics — brevity, trajectory, halo, and trails — are consistent with a meteorite entering the atmosphere.