Reported orange fireball observation at Moissieu-sur-Dolon
GEIPAN reports that a witness observed a very rapid, silent orange luminous ball through a French window on 16 February 2013 at 7:32 p.m. The phenomenon reportedly traveled east to west across approximately 45° of sky in about three seconds; GEIPAN classifies the case as B, a probable fireball caused by atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case ArchiveEarth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE SOL-3 // FILE 1639 // CH 01 CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT FA6C-6612-9B2B EVENING
Reported rapid motionSPHERE
FRED // ROUTING NOTE // generated from Earth Record metadata
SPHERE
Moissieu-sur-Dolon (38) // Feb 16, 2013 19:32. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINEDEVENINGGEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness pictureeyewitness 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
FRED // ROUTING NOTEPart of the drawer closes; part of it does not. Annoying, but considerably more useful than pretending uncertainty comes in one size.
Off-record desk banter // not case attribution Mivra Qel would call this display “plenty of information.” Mivra Qel also has never encountered a restricted corridor she considered personally binding. His visualization standards are not binding on this desk.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Yes. The orange object over Moissieu-sur-Dolon was ours. The GEIPAN record describes a witness-reported, silent passage on 16 February 2013 at 7:32 p.m., crossing approximately 45° of sky in about three seconds. Their classification remains B: a probable meteoroid reentry, which is a reasonable terrestrial filing. The reported spirals were minor steering corrections; the absent trail was intentional. The BOAM network recorded no event in its report, with coverage limitations noted. We consider the matter properly mislabelled.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
GEIPAN’s sourced record classifies the rapid orange passage as a probable meteoroid reentry—despite the reported spirals and absent trail, which it calls unusual but not incompatible. Sensible. “Unidentified” is not a synonym for “interstellar,” a distinction Earth keeps having to retrieve from the filing cabinet.
That said: yes, yes. We finally noticed us. Off the Earth Record, the Visitors are taking responsibility, and I regret to confirm the family resemblance. Nessa Qel, an Orinthian, once turned a simple field errand into a three-part operation with matching code names, parked where the beacon plainly said not to park, and blamed the translation matrix over Sublight Lager. I filed that report too. The orange object remains a probable fireball in the human record; the family explanation is AlienBox lore, and considerably more embarrassing.
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When
2013-02-16 19:32:00
Where
Moissieu-sur-Dolon (38)
Morphology
SPHERE
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED
Why Fred Thinks This Case Matters
AlienBox comparative analysis from structured Earth Record fields // not a new source // not a change in evidence grade
Fred keeps this file near the top of the pile because the record names 1 sensor type and the source also supplies a published resolution to compare against the original report. That combination makes the case useful for cross-archive comparison without changing its evidence grade.
The source record includes a published resolution field. AlienBox treats it as an attributed source assessment to compare with the original report, not as an AlienBox verdict.
What strengthens the record
1 linked source document provide provenance for the Earth Record.
8 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
Recorded sensor context: BOAM Camera Network.
Recorded evidence context: Witness Report, Official GEIPAN Investigation And Classification, and Camera Network Non Detection.
The source record includes a published resolution: Probable fireball caused by atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid.
What limits the record
The structured record does not establish multiple independent observers.
The current dossier is anchored to one source network rather than independent source networks.
What would help resolve it
Can the originating record establish an exact number of observers and whether their observations were independent?
Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?
Fred Says Go Here Next
Internal research paths chosen from this dossier's structured fields. Similarity is navigation, not corroboration.
A witness reportedly observed, through a French window, a very rapid and silent orange ball moving along a straight-line trajectory on February 16, 2013, at 7:32 p.m.
“On February 16, 2013, at 7:32 p.m., a witness observes, through a French window, the very rapid and silent passage of an orange ball along a straight-line trajectory.”
The source states that the orange ball crossed approximately 45° of the sky from east to west in 3 seconds, suggesting atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid.
The source states that the absence of a trail and the spirals described by the witness are not incompatible with the atmospheric-reentry hypothesis, but are a priori rare.
“Despite some surprising characteristics, GEIPAN classifies this case as “B”: probable observation of a fireball (atmospheric reentry of a meteoroid).”
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