Two parallel lights over Île-d'Yeu identified as the ISS

Summary

On 17 March 2009, a resident of Île-d'Yeu watched two luminous points moving slowly in parallel, maintaining a constant distance and producing no sound, before disappearing. That night the Space Shuttle Atlantis was approaching the International Space Station. Although the witness initially said the objects headed south, they also indicated an east-southeast direction consistent with the ISS trajectory. With that correction, the testimony matches the space event. GEIPAN classified the case as A: observation identified as the Atlantis shuttle and the ISS.