Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2008-05-21 · from the GEIPAN archive
On May 12, 2008, between 10:40 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., a witness observed a luminous object crossing the sky from south to northeast. This white, very bright object moved rapidly while making a curve in its trajectory. No noise was heard. After investigation and confirmation by the French Network for Meteor Observation (REFORME), this phenomenon turned out to be a pass of the ISS (International Space Station) visible from Aubagne between 10:42 p.m. and 10:47 p.m. on that date, and which can now be particularly bright since the installation of the four pairs of solar panels (its magnitude can be strongly negative, up to about -4).
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