An open record of things people cannot explain

2012-08-22

3 people, 2 different places

Strangers who were not talking to each other described within hours of each other, mostly in the same day.


What was also happening that day

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Both answers are useful, and the second one more than people think. If you were outside on 2012-08-22 in that part of the world and saw nothing at all, say so. A record that only collects sightings can never be argued with.

What people wrote

Var, France

On the evening of August 22, 2012, witnesses from their terrace observed a very bright point moving across the sky. The object left in a strange way at full speed in the sky. It came from the West and disappeared toward the East. The Calsky website indicates a

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France

A witness is intrigued by an observation made on August 22, 2012 at 10:19 PM. He observed the passage of a luminous point which, after a beginning of a straight trajectory, makes jerky movements from right to left before disappearing. The description made by t

Var, France

On August 22, 2012 at 10:18 PM, an entire family is watching the starry sky. These people are intrigued by the slow and silent passage of a luminous ball whose intensity decreases before disappearing. The witnesses' description matches in every point the obser

The numbers behind this cluster
E-2012-08-22-44e6 · 3 accounts across 2 places · wording independence 0.715 by shared vocabulary, 0.87 by shared phrases · coherence 1.781 · sources geipan:3
Wording independence near 1.0 means people described it in their own words rather than repeating each other. The two numbers are two measures of the same thing: overlap in the words chosen, and overlap in exact phrases, which is the stricter test for copying.

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