An account in Bouches-du-Rh�ne, France

On July 17, 2014 at around 11 p.m., a witness and his son observe a series of flashes coming from the sky. The object remains fixed in the sky throughout the entire observation, which lasts 40 minutes. The intensity of the flashes was comparable in shape and brightness to stars. The witness identifies, using the Aix-En-Provence planetarium, the constellation Scorpius. The next day, the witness with his children looks again at the same spot in the sky, and at 11:10 p.m. the family will see, three times, a flash of lesser intensity. Only one testimony is collected. Of average strangeness and consistency (several witnesses, but only one testimony), this case turns out to be the probable observation of a geostationary satellite in rapid rotation. Several geostationary satellites are present in the sector indicated by the witness, and at least one of them is known to be in rapid rotation on itself. This case is classified B, probable observation of a geostationary satellite in rapid rotation.

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.