GEIPAN Case 2011-02-02732 — [A62] de AGEN (47) vers BORDEAUX (33) 15.02.2011
GEIPAN case 2011-02-02732 is a French gendarmerie-backed investigation of a solo motorist's sighting of a static, flat, triangular greenish object above the A62 motorway between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011, classified D1 (unexplained, insufficient information).
Brief
On 15 February 2011 a female motorist driving the A62 from Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) toward Bordeaux observed an unrecognized object for a matter of seconds. She described it as static, roughly triangular with three rounded corners, flat in profile, and greenish in color — somewhere between gray and green. No corroborating witnesses emerged. GEIPAN, the UAP unit of the French national space agency CNES, logged the case as classification D1, meaning the phenomenon remains unexplained due to insufficient available information.
Metadata
- Agency
- GEIPAN / CNES
- Release
- 2007-03-22
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 4 pages
- Classification
- D1 (Phenomene inexplique — donnees insuffisantes)
- Programs
- GEIPAN, GEPAN, SEPRA
- Tags
- triangular UAP, rounded corners, flat profile, greenish coloration, static/hovering, A62 motorway, Agen-Bordeaux corridor, France, 2011, GEIPAN D1
Key points
- Case filed under GEIPAN number 2011-02-02732, assigned classification D1 — unexplained with insufficient data to resolve.
- Sighting location: A62 autoroute corridor between Agen (47) and Bordeaux (33), southwestern France.
- Observation date: 15 February 2011; duration described as only a few seconds while the witness continued driving.
- Witness description: object was static (not in motion), triangular in shape with all three corners rounded, relatively flat, and greenish — described as between gray and green.
- Single-witness event; no other reports of the phenomenon were collected during the investigation.
- Supporting materials include gendarmerie procès-verbaux and/or technical notes, standard for GEIPAN field cases.
- Investigated under the GEIPAN lineage (formerly GEPAN, then SEPRA), the only institutionalized government UAP investigation unit continuously active in a Western nation at time of filing.
Most interesting
- GEIPAN's D1 classification distinguishes between genuinely unexplained cases and those that are merely data-poor; this case falls into the latter, meaning an explanation may exist but the available testimony was too brief and uncorroborated to confirm one.
- The A62 corridor runs through largely flat, agricultural terrain between Agen and Bordeaux — a region with no documented military flight test zones or major airfield approach paths that would trivially account for unusual aerial shapes.
- The witness's color description — 'between gray and green' — does not align with standard navigation lighting, weather balloons, or commercial aircraft fuselage coloring, though the seconds-long observation window limits definitive exclusion.
- France's GEIPAN is one of fewer than a handful of governments worldwide to maintain a standing, publicly accessible UAP case registry; this case is part of that open archive.
- The listed release date of 2007-03-22 predates the 2011 incident, suggesting it reflects the GEIPAN public database's general launch or catalog-entry creation date rather than a case-specific declassification action.