Calvados, France · 2013-01-07 · from the GEIPAN archive
Pilot witness in Calvados, France
On January 7, 2013, around 10:50 PM UTC (11:50 PM local time), the pilot of an Airbus A340 reports having seen what he thinks is a re-entry into the atmosphere of space debris. The observation took place around 10:46 PM, around 049°10'54''/000°18'53'', which corresponds to around the overflight of Deauville. This testimony is to be compared with the case of a simultaneous observation in Ardèche at the Col de L'escrinet (07) on the same date. Other testimonies of this type will appear in the press in January 2013. Given the witnesses' accounts, the observed phenomenon is very probably the re-entry into the atmosphere of a satellite debris, possibly from the Iridium 33 satellite. This case is classified as "B": probable observation of an atmospheric re-entry.
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On November 10, 2013 between 4:59 PM and 5:00 PM, a witness notices for 10 minutes the presence of a luminous intensity that is impossible to look at directly. While taking photographs of th…
On November 22, 2012 at around 9:15 PM, a witness is intrigued by the presence in the overcast sky of a bright, fixed light. Then at around 9:24 PM, he notices that the light is moving slowl…
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A witness reports an observation made on April 12, 2012, at around 10:30 PM. From his balcony, he follows for 2 minutes the south-to-north movement of a white light source. No trail and no p…
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
Between July 9, 2014 and July 11, 2014, a witness is intrigued by several observations of luminous phenomena in the sky.
First observation of July 9 at 11:54 PM:
the witness describes a lumi…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
Recent testimony (2015) about an old observation (date of day arbitrary). In December 1978 (the witness does not remember the exact date of the day) around 6:40 PM, a bus driver observes to …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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