UFO case file · UFO-41413
PLEURTUIT (35) 12.04.2012
PLEURTUIT (35), Bretagne, FR
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Case description
On 12 April 2012 around 22:30 in Pleurtuit (35), a witness on his balcony followed a white light moving south to north for 2 minutes. No trail or particular sound was noticed.
The gendarmerie collected no other account. Air traffic control reported no known flights in Dinard airspace at the time. GEIPAN finds the description fully consistent with the International Space Station (ISS), which passed over Brittany that evening. The attached plot shows its path against the sky; the displayed time is accurate only to within a few minutes. The case is classified A: ISS observation.
Recorded details
- Local time
- 22:30
- Coordinate precision
- Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
- Date precision
- day