An account in Vend�e, France

On August 8, 2012 at 11:10 PM, a witness observed for one minute the passage from south to north of two very bright objects in parallel at very high altitude. His testimony is very brief and no other testimony is reported. Reading the satellite passage schedule compiled by Calsky, one notes at this time (11:10 PM) several satellite passages: first the International Space Station (ISS), extremely bright (magnitude -4.3), to which are docked the Russian cargo ship Progress and the Japanese cargo ship HTV-3. Its apparent trajectory is from southwest to northeast. One notes at roughly the same moment two other much less bright satellites (IGS5 H2A Rocket and Alos, of magnitude 2.7 and 3), on a trajectory from south to north, following each other about 80 degrees apart. If the witness could hardly have missed the spectacular passage of the ISS, it is surprising that he describes a passage from south to north, and there is only one very bright point visible. If it is the other two satellites that he saw, they were not very bright. Due to this uncertainty and the imprecision of the testimony, GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of satellites, without being able to determine precisely which ones.