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Haute-Savoie, France · 2009-04-25 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haute-Savoie, France

A witness observes on April 25, 2009 at 5:10 a.m. the silent passage from southwest to northeast of a very bright ball in the sky. The trajectory is straight and the speed is fast and steady. Unfortunately, the photographs taken are unusable. After verification with the station's orbit bulletins (Space-track), this observation case corresponds without any doubt to a passage of the International Space Station (ISS).

 

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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.