Var, France · 2012-08-22 · from the GEIPAN archive
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).
A witness on July 26, 2012 at 5:10 a.m. observed the passage of a white luminous point, moving slowly from southwest to northeast, in silence. The witness observed the passage of the Interna…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On Sunday, July 23, 2017 at 11:27 PM, a witness and his partner observe for less than one minute the slow movement of a white luminous point on a West-East trajectory in a clear sky. The int…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
A witness, an amateur astronomer living near the Istres air base and experienced in observing many different types of aircraft, observed on August 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM the passage of a bright…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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