Yvelines, France · 1953-11-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On November 3, 1953 at 7:14 PM UT (8:14 PM local time), the press reported several witness accounts of observations of a white luminous sphere in the sky. This phenomenon was stationary in the NE of a partly cloudy sky. A controller would report his observation in the tower service log on November 3, 1953. He would make a statement on November 20, 1953 indicating that two other military personnel had also made the same observation. A sky chart shows Jupiter in the NE with a strong magnitude (-2.22) and an elevation of 3.6°. GEIPAN classifies this case as A: astronomical misidentification with the planet Jupiter.
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