GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020

Brief

On the night of June 3, 2020, between midnight and 01:00, three witnesses in the garden of a rural family home in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) observed a silent UAP pass overhead on a straight trajectory over an estimated 5 to 10 seconds. The phenomenon presented primarily as two bluish light sources. GEIPAN — CNES's standing UAP investigation unit, successor to GEPAN and SEPRA — conducted a formal inquiry and assigned classification D, meaning the case remained unidentified after investigation. Supporting materials in the file include gendarmerie procès-verbaux and technical notes.

Metadata

Agency

GEIPAN / CNES

Release

2007-03-22

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

1 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED (GEIPAN Category D — unidentified)

Programs

GEIPAN, GEPAN, SEPRA

Tags

nocturnal lights, two bluish lights, silent, rectilinear flight, GEIPAN classification D, Aunay-les-Bois Normandy France, 2020, GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034

Key points

• GEIPAN assigned classification D — formally unidentified after investigation — distinguishing this case from those resolved as misidentified conventional objects.
• Three independent witnesses observed the phenomenon simultaneously from a rural garden, reducing the likelihood of individual perceptual error.
• The UAP was described as consisting primarily of two bluish light sources, with no acoustic signature reported.
• Flight path was rectilinear (straight-line) and the entire event lasted an estimated 5 to 10 seconds.
• The investigation file includes gendarmerie procès-verbaux, indicating formal law-enforcement witness testimony was collected.
• The observation occurred at rural Aunay-les-Bois (department 61, Orne, Normandy), a low-light-pollution environment favorable to accurate nighttime sky observation.

Most interesting

• GEIPAN classification D is the highest-priority unresolved category in the French system — it means investigators could not identify the object even after applying full analytical methodology.
• GEIPAN is a unit of CNES, the French national space agency, making it one of the few government bodies in the world with a standing, institutionalized UAP investigation mandate.
• The gendarmerie procès-verbal (official sworn statement) gives the witness accounts a degree of legal formality absent from most civilian UAP reports.
• The case number format (2020-06-51034) encodes year and month of observation, suggesting GEIPAN logged it within the same calendar month — June 2020.
• The listed release date of 2007-03-22 predates the 2020 observation by 13 years, indicating this is likely a cataloging artifact (possibly the date GEIPAN's public database system was established) rather than a meaningful declassification timestamp.
• Two discrete light sources rather than a single luminous body is a recurrent structural descriptor in GEIPAN's unresolved nighttime cases, and its repetition across unrelated reports makes it analytically significant.
• The 5-to-10-second duration is short enough to preclude most conventional explanations (aircraft navigation lights, balloons) that would produce a slower apparent transit at the described angular extent.