NOTRE-DAME-DE-LONDRES (34) 09.09.2012

On 9 September 2012 at around midnight, 3 friends in Notre-Dame-de-Londres were watching shooting stars when they noticed a very bright star apparently moving quite quickly in all directions, followed by a fainter light. One account was collected. The sky chart shows Jupiter and Aldebaran at the positions described. GEIPAN acknowledges that the reported movements do not fit fixed celestial objects. It proposes an autokinetic illusion to explain the apparent motion, noting that few other bright stars occupy that part of the sky, making the hypothesis plausible. The case is classified B: Jupiter and Aldebaran, probably perceived with an autokinetic illusion.