GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 is a French national UAP investigation file documenting three civilian witnesses' brief nocturnal sighting of a silent, rectilinearly-moving object showing two bluish lights over rural Normandy on 3 June 2020, assigned Classification D (unexplained after full investigation).
Brief
At some point between midnight and 1 a.m. on 3 June 2020, three witnesses standing in the garden of a rural family home in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, Normandy) observed a UAP cross the sky in a straight, silent trajectory over an estimated 5–10 seconds. The object was described as consisting primarily of two bluish light sources. GEIPAN — the UAP investigation unit embedded within the French space agency CNES, successor to GEPAN and SEPRA — conducted a formal inquiry including collection of gendarmerie procès-verbaux and technical notes, and ultimately assigned Classification D, meaning the phenomenon could not be identified. The war.gov catalog lists a release date of 2007-03-22, which predates the 2020 event by thirteen years and is almost certainly a metadata artifact rather than a meaningful document date.
Metadata
- Agency
- GEIPAN / CNES
- Release
- 2007-03-22
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 1 pages
- Classification
- UNCLASSIFIED (GEIPAN Classification D — non identifié après enquête)
- Programs
- GEIPAN, GEPAN, SEPRA, CNES
- Tags
- two bluish lights, nocturnal lights, silent flight, rectilinear trajectory, paired light sources, France, Normandy, Orne, 2020, GEIPAN, Classification D
Key points
- Three civilian witnesses observed the UAP simultaneously from a rural garden, lending minimal corroboration across multiple perspectives.
- The trajectory was described as rectilinear and the passage entirely silent, ruling out most conventional aircraft with audible propulsion at low altitude.
- The estimated observation duration of 5–10 seconds is short but consistent with GEIPAN cases involving high-speed or high-altitude transits.
- GEIPAN Classification D — the agency's highest unexplainability tier — was assigned, meaning neither natural phenomena nor conventional technology adequately explained the sighting after full inquiry.
- Attached case materials reportedly include gendarmerie procès-verbaux and technical notes, indicating formal law-enforcement testimony was collected.
- The object's dominant feature was two bluish light sources, a descriptor that appears in a distinct subset of GEIPAN's classification-D case catalog.
Most interesting
- GEIPAN Classification D is the rarest and most significant rating in the agency's four-tier system (A = explained, B = probably explained, C = possibly explained, D = unexplained); fewer than roughly 3% of GEIPAN cases reach it.
- GEIPAN operates continuously within CNES, making France one of the only nations with an unbroken, institutionally-embedded civilian UAP investigation capability — a lineage running from GEPAN (1977) through SEPRA (1988) to GEIPAN (2005).
- The war.gov catalog assigns a release date of 2007-03-22 to a document recording an event from June 2020 — a thirteen-year discrepancy that is almost certainly a cataloging artifact in the disclosure database, not a genuine document date.
- The combination of two discrete light sources moving in rigid formation, in silence, on a straight path, in rural Normandy at night is precisely the profile GEIPAN uses to screen out satellite passes and meteors; the investigation found neither model fit.
- Gendarmerie procès-verbaux are sworn testimony documents collected by France's national military police force, giving witness statements in GEIPAN cases a higher evidentiary formality than civilian self-reports alone.