Cher, France · 2014-09-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
On September 1, 2014 at 12:55 p.m., a witness, attracted by the noise of an airplane, observed the straight-line passage of a luminous point in the sky. No other testimony was collected. The observation of luminous points crossing the sky in broad daylight can come from reflections of the sun either on airplanes or on satellites. The Flightradar data (attached) shows many airliners flying over the witness from NNW to SSE, but not in the indicated direction of Northeast to Southwest. A high-altitude military aircraft not listed by Flightradar cannot be ruled out. The Calsky data (attached) of satellites flying over the area also lists a large number of satellites, presumably invisible by day. At least 4 have Northeast to Southwest trajectories compatible with the witness's observation: SPOT4, 5, ARGOS, KOMPSAT. But these satellites are not known to "flare" in broad daylight like the Iridiums, although this is not physically impossible. Given these various possibilities that GEIPAN could neither eliminate nor confirm, this not-very-strange case is classified as C due to lack of information and cross-checks.
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