Sighting in Perpignan, February 3, 2011

Between 7:20 and 7:24 a.m., a witness standing in a parking lot saw a white light cross the sky quickly and in a straight line, then change direction. The light did not flicker. The witness heard no sound and noticed no trail. The gendarmerie collected no other testimony about the phenomenon.

GEIPAN first classified the case as "D1" in 2011. It reviewed the case again in 2013, after an internet user put forward a new hypothesis. The case has moderate consistency: there was only one eyewitness and no recording, but the description of the phenomenon is very precise. That description shares many features with the International Space Station (duration of the sighting, shape, size, color, trajectory). The station was indeed present in the part of the sky where the witness was looking, although the witness made no mention of it. Under GEIPAN's current classification, this low-strangeness case is rated PAN B: a probable sighting of the International Space Station.