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Dordogne, France · 2008-05-28 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Dordogne, France

On May 28, 2008 at around 0:04 a witness observed the rapid passage of a luminous object in the sky. The indicated straight-line trajectory is northwest. This witness probably observed a pass of the ISS (see direction and pass times of the ISS over France on that date. The time given is GMT + 2 hours (summer time in France).

 

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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.