An account in Var, France

On August 22, 2012 at 10:18 PM, an entire family is watching the starry sky. These people are intrigued by the slow and silent passage of a luminous ball whose intensity decreases before disappearing. The witnesses' description matches in every point the observation of the International Space Station ISS (See Calsky document - ISS pass). In the second document (Calsky-sky chart) the white balls represent the successive positions of the ISS against the background of stars; the balls are larger the brighter the ISS appears. One notes that at the beginning of the pass the apparent movement of the ISS is slow and that, moving toward the East, the station entered the Earth's shadow. It is no longer lit by the sun and becomes invisible to the observers. This case is classified "A": observation of the pass of the International Space Station (ISS).