AnomalyOn Friday, May 22, 2009 at around 11:30 PM, two witnesses were intrigued by the West-East passage of a white luminous phenomenon at a regular speed. One of the witnesses observed a zig-zag made by the phenomenon before it quickly faded out. The witnesses in all likelihood observed a pass of the International Space Station (ISS) at the moment it entered the Earth's shadow. The brief zigzag perceived by one of the witnesses during the observation may be due to an autokinetic phenomenon: focused on the luminous point crossing the sky, the brain momentarily lost its bearings and interpreted the natural movements of the eyeballs as a displacement of the luminous point itself. This case is classified as A, observation of a pass of the International Space Station.
Vend�e, France · 2009-05-22 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Vend�e, France
Has this happened to you?
Write it down while you still remember the details. We will look for the others.
Tell us what you sawKnow someone this happened to?
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.