GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 documents a nocturnal UAP sighting by three witnesses in rural Normandy on 03 June 2020, classified D (unidentified after investigation), involving the silent rectilinear passage of two bluish lights lasting 5–10 seconds.
Brief
Three witnesses observing the night sky from the garden of a family home in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) reported a silent UAP between 00h00 and 01h00 on 03 June 2020. The phenomenon was described as two predominantly bluish light sources moving in a straight line and was visible for an estimated 5 to 10 seconds. GEIPAN — the UAP investigation unit of the French national space agency CNES — conducted a formal inquiry, gathering gendarmerie procès-verbaux and technical notes from the three witnesses. At the conclusion of the investigation the case was assigned GEIPAN Classification D, meaning the phenomenon could not be identified.
Metadata
- Agency
- GEIPAN / CNES
- Release
- 2007-03-22
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 1 pages
- Classification
- Classification D (unidentified after investigation)
- Programs
- GEIPAN, SEPRA, GEPAN
- Tags
- dual bluish lights, silent, rectilinear trajectory, nocturnal, 5–10 second duration, rural France, GEIPAN Classification D, multi-witness, 2020
Key points
- Three civilian witnesses present at the same rural garden location, providing a multi-witness baseline for the event.
- The UAP exhibited two primary characteristics that together resist prosaic explanation: total silence and a straight-line trajectory.
- Duration estimate of 5–10 seconds is consistent with a fast-moving object at altitude rather than a close, slow, low-altitude source.
- Bluish light coloration distinguishes this case from orange/white-light satellite or aircraft reports common in the GEIPAN archive.
- GEIPAN Classification D is the strongest classification in the French system, reserved for cases that remain unidentified after exhaustive investigation.
- Case materials include gendarmerie procès-verbaux, indicating formal sworn testimony was collected through official law-enforcement channels.
Most interesting
- GEIPAN (Groupe d'Etudes et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés) is one of the only state-funded UAP investigation units in the world that publishes its full case archive to the public.
- The GEIPAN four-tier classification system runs A (explained) through D (unidentified after investigation); fewer than 3% of GEIPAN cases receive a D.
- Aunay-les-Bois is a commune of fewer than 400 people in the Orne department of Normandy — low light pollution, high sky visibility, making misidentification of common aircraft lights less likely.
- The midnight-to-1 AM observation window eliminates commercial air traffic as the dominant candidate and narrows the field to military flights, satellites, and unexplained sources.
- The filing's release date of 2007-03-22 in the war.gov metadata appears to be a catalog artifact; the incident itself occurred in June 2020, three years after that date.
- This file (Temoin2_croquis) is labeled 'witness 2 sketch' (croquis = sketch), suggesting the case package contains at least three separate witness documents plus gendarmerie records.