The witness is walking his dogs at 11:25 PM when he observes for 2 minutes two white luminous points that follow each other in the sky, at high speed. The description of the phenomenon given by the witness clearly evokes the passage of two satellites, one of them large. A check on Calsky confirms that the International Space Station ISS was indeed visible at that time, accompanied by the European space cargo ATV5 which was preparing for its docking on August 12, 2014. This observation case, perfectly identified, is classified "A": observation of the ISS and the ATV5 cargo.
Meuse, France · 2014-08-10 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Meuse, France
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