BRUE-AURIAC (83) 22.08.2012

On the evening of 22 August 2012, witnesses on a terrace in Brue-Auriac saw a very bright white point moving through the sky. They described a strange departure at great speed; it came from the west and disappeared toward the east. Calsky records show an extremely bright ISS pass visible there from 22:11 in the west to 22:17 in the southeast. GEIPAN considers the ISS's appearance consistent with the account and explains its disappearance in open sky as entry into Earth's shadow. The source thus gives an eastern disappearance in the account and a southeastern pass endpoint. GEIPAN classifies the case as A: the ISS.