Sighting in Saint-Jean-de-Monts, August 5, 2010

At 10:55 p.m., the witness was out for a summer evening walk when they noticed a yellow ball of light. It crossed the sky above the town on a north-to-south path, moving at a moderate speed.

The GEIPAN investigation considered the case to be of little strangeness: it involved a point of light moving in a straight line. The account is also weak, because the orientation and the description of the phenomenon itself are imprecise, its apparent size in particular. The most likely explanation is a large satellite, but this could not be demonstrated. The case was classified C because of the lack of information and the imprecisions noted.