Charente-Maritime, France · 2012-08-09 · from the GEIPAN archive
A witness is intrigued by the slow movements of a very bright phenomenon in the sky. He makes these observations on the evenings of August 8 and 9, 2012. The witness's description and the times of passage are fully compatible with the observation of passes of the International Space Station (ISS) on the evenings of August 8 and 9, 2012 (see the Calsky records of ISS passes on August 8 from 9:31 PM to 9:40 PM, then from 11:06 PM to 11:15 PM, and on August 9 from 10:13 PM to 10:24 PM, then from 11:50 PM to 11:57 PM), to be compared with the observation dates and times (around 10:30 PM and 11:30 PM). GEIPAN classifies this case "A": observation two evenings in a row, of the two successive passes of the International Space Station (ISS).
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