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Number: | OS0001 |
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Date written: | February 26, 2008 |
Date received: | February 26, 2008 |
Date published: | March 25, 2008 |
Date of sighting: | April 23, 2007 |
Place of sighting: | ISS space picture |
Original language of report: | French |
Reported using: | |
Unreleased information: | Name, firstname, email address |
Investigation, additional information: | None |
Explanation: | Not looked for |
Subject: UFO sighting hellos, My name is [Firstname] [Name], I'm 22 and a resident of Nice. I write to you to report an 'anomaly'(let's call it that way)that I saw by chance on a space image from the ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY website dating from April 23, 2007. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html Whereas the soyuz shuttle approaches the ISS, it is possible to observe, very small, on the left, in the clouds, a shining point with a very light dark mass around it. The shining point seems to be the reflexion of the sun on a surface, which would indicate that it is not a matter of a dust or a reflection. Moreover, at picture's real size, one does see well the dark and round aspect of the object. It might be merely a satellite, but the distance compared to the Earth appears a little weak to me. Or then it could be unspecified junk. Or perhaps something else... That's it, that's it... |
The indicated image is at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070423.html as of March 2008.
It is:
Credit: "A Supply Ship Approaches the Space Station", ISS Expedition 13 Crew, NASA
Taking into account the extremely low resolution of the object in question, it is impossible to distinguish if it is a stratospheric balloon, a satellite, or some closer junk, or somehting else.