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Indre-et-Loire, France · 2007-08-13 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Indre-et-Loire, France

On August 13, 2007 at around 11:30 PM, a family was watching the stars from their garden. They spotted a luminous phenomenon in the sky that intrigued them: coming from the west, a bright white ball grew larger as it came toward them. Gradually changing trajectory to head toward the North Star, the sphere shrank before disappearing completely. A star chart taken at the indicated times and locations shows that these people witnessed the passage of the International Space Station.

 

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.