An account in Haute-Garonne, France

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time as type "C" cases, which are now being re-examined, with the sole aim of being more relevant in the conclusions. Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classification explained in an investigation note. This observation case is one of the cases classified "C" in 1998 by SEPRA, previously named Cintegabelle (31) after the gendarmerie brigade. On August 9, 1998 at 10:10 PM, a couple on their terrace observed the slow, silent, zigzagging passage of a shiny silver sphere in the sky, which went out abruptly. The trajectory of the UAP was directed toward the Moon. Another witness in a town several dozen kilometers away reportedly saw this phenomenon: he was not found. The described phenomenon presents many common characteristics (observation duration, shape, size, color, trajectory) with a perfectly known space object: the Mir space station. Moreover, Mir was indeed present in the area of the sky observed while the witnesses do not mention it. At the end of its trajectory, Mir entered the Earth's shadow, marking its visual disappearance, as indicated by the witnesses. It is not the visual perception of the witnesses that is in question, but the interpretation that the witnesses make of their observation through their feelings (astonishment, fatigue). In GEIPAN's current classification, this case of low strangeness is classified as UAP A, an observation linked to a misidentification with the Mir space station.