Sighting in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, July 17, 2014

At around 11 p.m., a witness and their son saw a series of flashes in the sky. The source stayed fixed in place throughout the 40-minute observation. The flashes looked like stars in both shape and brightness. Using the Aix-en-Provence planetarium, the witness later placed the area in the constellation Scorpius.

The next day, the witness and their children looked at the same spot again. At 11:10 p.m., the family saw a flash three times, this time of lower intensity. Only one account was collected, even though several people had been present.

GEIPAN rated the case as moderate in both strangeness and consistency. The investigation concluded that this was probably a geostationary satellite spinning rapidly: several geostationary satellites are located in the sector the witness indicated, and at least one of them is known to rotate rapidly on its own axis. The case was classified B (probably identified).