An account in H�rault, France

On July 27, 2007 between 11:30 PM and 12:15 AM, a witness sitting on a café terrace curiously observed a bright point moving rapidly and at very high altitude in the sky. This point toward the south had a descending trajectory. While talking with her friend, she resumed her observation but noticed that the object was in an opposite direction and on an ascending trajectory. Examination of the sky chart shows that that day around midnight, the International Space Station disappeared at the horizon a few seconds before the meteorological satellite NOAA 14 rose exactly at the same spot in the sky in the direction of the observation. The trajectories of these two satellites are approximately 90° apart. The ISS rose on that date from the S-SW (204°) at 11:45 PM and headed toward the S-E. The meteorological satellite NOAA-14 rose exactly at the same spot (204°) at 12:03 AM and headed in the opposite direction toward the S-W. It is therefore obvious that the witness successively saw the ISS then NOAA 14, which gave her the impression that the bright point changed direction.