Hauts-de-Seine, France · 2015-03-12 · from the GEIPAN archive
On March 12, 2015 at 7:45 PM, a witness observes two lights, first stationary, then the first one takes a direction and disappears behind the buildings, soon followed by the second one, which follows exactly the same trajectory. The witness observes from Courbevoie, at 85° to the right of the Total tower at La Défense (see map), which gives a northwest direction. A check of civil air traffic (see Flightradar data) shows that at that precise moment, flights AFR1159 and AF1281, descending toward Roissy, were in the witnesses' line of sight, and these flights then turned slightly to the north. The video taken by the witness is fully consistent with this explanation. It is reminded that an airplane seen preparing to land, therefore seen from the front, can be seen from more than 20 km thanks to its landing lights, which make the blinking lights and position lights (green and red) nearly invisible to the eye. When the airplane's axis is no longer in the observer's direction, these powerful lights, which have a relatively narrow beam, are no longer visible to the observer. See the article airplane? . GEIPAN classifies this case "A": observation of airplanes in descent.
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