Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 2009-01-25 · from the GEIPAN archive
On February 25, 2009, around 7 p.m., several people observed from their homes a luminous phenomenon in the sky that intrigued them. One of the witnesses filmed the phenomenon, which appeared during zooms as a luminous ball with a blue halo and describing circular movements. The main witness indicated that the phenomenon reappeared at the start of the night on the following days. The observed phenomenon (several days in a row) and filmed (for several minutes) was none other than the planet Venus, a conclusion contained in the police report and acknowledged by the main witness. The planet Venus, very bright (magnitude -4.5), was indeed in the sector of the sky observed and filmed by the witness.
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