UFO case file · UFO-42638
SAINT-TRIVIER-SUR-MOIGNANS (01) 20.08.2022
SAINT-TRIVIER-SUR-MOIGNANS (01), Rhône-Alpes, France
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Case description
On Saturday 20 August 2022 at 21:40, a witness and his partner at Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans saw a luminous phenomenon moving silently across the sky. He described a very long shape that “looked like a mesh bracelet.” Only 1 account was collected.
GEIPAN identifies it as the Starlink satellite train from the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of 19 August 2022 and classifies the case A. The source directs readers to the GEIPAN website's “Une succession de points lumineux” feature, accessible through the Starlink icon, and the “Satellites STARLINK” article on the Méprises du ciel website for further information.
Recorded details
- Local time
- 21:48
- Coordinate precision
- Source-provided or normalized location; precision not increased beyond source.
- Date precision
- day