Gard, France · 2015-08-15 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 15, 2015 at 10:36 PM, a resident of NIMES (30) was looking at the stars with his wife and daughter from his garden when he saw in the southeast direction a very bright point shining for about ten seconds before going out. The witness tried to identify the UAP using the GEIPAN website: he thinks it could be an Iridium flare. Of average strangeness, but of sufficient consistency, this case turns out to be a classic misidentification with a phenomenon of the satellite reflection type involving the satellite Metop A. The time, trajectory, and position of this satellite are perfectly consistent with the witness's description (see the investigation report). This case is classified as A, misidentification with a satellite reflection phenomenon, involving the satellite Metop A.
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
Recent testimony (April 2015) of an old observation (August 2014). The witness reports that on August 31, 2014, between 3 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., he observed, with a friend, various luminous phe…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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