MONTPELLIER (34) 17.07.2012

On 17 July 2012 at 04:03, a witness on his terrace in Montpellier saw 2 particularly bright points of light toward the east-southeast. He filmed them and noticed a third point when watching the video, giving the group a triangular appearance. He saw the same thing 2 days later. GEIPAN considers 2 very bright stationary lights suggestive of an astronomical explanation. The sky chart for that morning shows Venus and Jupiter together toward the east-northeast, a direction differing from the witness's east-southeast description. GEIPAN finds the video consistent with their arrangement. It identifies the fainter third point as Aldebaran, describing it as a very bright star and giving its magnitude as −0.6 in the source. GEIPAN classifies the case as A, fully identified as Venus, Jupiter and Aldebaran.