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Gironde, France · 2009-09-08 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Gironde, France

On September 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, a witness observed in the sky a bright light without blinking that moved at a rapid pace from West to East on a straight trajectory. This testimony is very slightly strange, and the description is too brief for a serious study. It is most likely a pass of the International Space Station ISS, which was moving from West to East above the southern horizon from 9:07 PM to 9:14 PM (see Calsky data). GEIPAN classifies this case "B": observation 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.