Sighting in Gimont, August 18, 2007

An amateur astronomer was looking at the stars at around 10:15 pm when they noticed a point of light with the naked eye, crossing the sky from east to west at a steady speed. After about thirty seconds, they decided to film it with a camcorder, first at maximum zoom (x20), then zooming out to follow the light more easily. The witness was intrigued, saying they had seen the same phenomenon twice more during August 2007.

The video was of very little use. The movements visible in it matched the movements of the camera, and the diamond shape was the shape of the camera's diaphragm. One early hypothesis was an aircraft bound for Blagnac, seen head-on with its landing lights on, but the witness did not answer the investigators' follow-up questions. The case was therefore first classed C, for lack of information.

It was later re-examined: on 18 August at 10:15 pm, the International Space Station (ISS) made a pass that was visible from Gimont. GEIPAN therefore reclassified the case as A, the sighting being the ISS passing overhead.