An account in Oise, France

This recent testimony received in 2014 about an old observation (1986) does not mention a precise date of the day (the date of August 1st is given arbitrarily). The account of bright points crossing the sky from North to South in 12 minutes in the evening clearly evokes the passage of artificial satellites, as could easily be observed at that time and even more so nowadays. Of course, the zigzag trajectory described by the witness does not fit this hypothesis, but the autokinetic illusion (cf. The perception of the movement of a bright point in the sky) explains this impression, fairly frequently described by witnesses, under certain observation conditions. The impression of fleeing at high speed corresponds to the satellite entering the Earth's shadow. Since the witness did not give a precise date of the day, GEIPAN could not verify which satellite might have passed at that time. This case therefore remains in category "C" due to the lack of a precise date.