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Côte-d'Or, France · 2009-07-19 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Côte-d'Or, France

On July 19, 2009, between 11:00 PM and 11:15 PM, a witness observed the passage from northwest to southeast of a white light of very significant brightness in the sky. No noise was heard during the slow movement of the phenomenon. No smoke or trace on the ground was noted by the witness. This person witnessed the passage of the International Space Station (ISS), which was particularly bright (magnitude -3.3).

 

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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.