Several witnesses reported this Tuesday evening having seen an unidentified object break up in the sky around 9:30 p.m. in a long luminous trail. Unbelievable, we just saw a kind of meteorite pass through the sky but it was moving in slow motion and then separated into several pieces as if it had exploded!! “, reports @BenouSyS on X, with supporting videos.
« Who saw the huge object that just disintegrated in the atmosphere heading West-East? Quite slow, spacecraft reentry or meteor? ” asks @renard_alpin.
From Normandy to Switzerland
« A few minutes ago, many witnesses in France reported seeing a bolide disintegrate in the sky. This rather long phenomenon (15 to 20s), followed a trajectory towards the south-east “, writes @XploraSpace. Other testimonies have been published from Normandy, Alsace and even Lyon.
Astrophysicist Eric Lagadec confirms. Many people have reported seeing this crossing the sky in the north of France. It looks like a satellite or rocket entering the atmosphere, I’m looking into it. Probably not a meteor given the speed! ” he wrote early in the evening.
In a second message, he claims that the object “ has just been seen in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and a large part of northern France. It is not a meteor, apparently there has been no recent rocket launch and it looks very much like a satellite atmospheric re-entry. »
« What appears to be the remains of a satellite has disintegrated in the sky above France and Germany. Many people have observed the phenomenon “, also comments meteorologist Guillaume Séchet.
“It must have been really big.”
“Seen in Amiens 30 minutes ago. We thought it was a plane, it was so fast,” @gonnarutoluffy also reacts.Seen in Haute Savoie. It looked like a plane. So if it was seen in Île-de-France too, it must have been really big.“, notes @afreeman1901.
No authority has yet reacted to this phenomenon and the identity of the satellite is not known. The European Space Agency announced on Monday, August 26, that the dislocation of a satellite would soon be observed during its re-entry into the atmosphere, but the announced date is September 8.
