A meteor shower in the Southeast last night – Yahoo News

By M6 Info | M6info –

They are hundreds to be observed in the sky like a luminous trail, green according to some. Immediately, the witnesses of this strange phenomenon contacted relief for more, but also the media: at 21:15, Le Dauphiné Libéré that followed the live case, had collected some 200 testimonies

on Twitter too, many recounted their adventure from making funny assumptions:

I am the only one who saw it in fifteen minutes a # meteorite green fall from sky in St Etienne? O

– Raphael Muñoz (RaFis_Dancing) February 17, 2016

there’s been home not what it was a huge truck looked like a meteorite or a burning aircraft st raph! At home pic.twitter.com/9EMkZfqOyN

- Nico … 萨科 (@ nico83np) February 17, 2016

Quickly Isère prefecture communicates not air burning or alien about to land: it would simply be a meteor shower:

At 19:30 no aircraft reported missing. probable phenomenon meteorite rain above the Isère

-. Isère Prefect (@ Prefet38) February 17, 2016

Last year in March 2015, East of the people of France had also observed a similar phenomenon type.Beaucoup believed they saw UFOs in the sky:

in fact, what is a meteorite?

As defined by CNES, meteorites are from body dating from the formation of the solar system, there are 4.5 billion years! “When the path of one of these bodies led him to encounter the Earth’s atmosphere, it produces a luminous phenomenon known meteor, which is the origin of the term for meteorite remnants of these objects that can be found on earth, “said the CNES website. It is estimated that each year, hundreds of meteorites impact the surface of the earth.