GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
Witness 3's hand-drawn sketch filed with GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034, documenting a 5-to-10-second silent, rectilinear passage of a two-blue-light UAP over Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, France on the night of 3 June 2020 — left unidentified after investigation.
Brief
Three witnesses in the garden of a rural family home in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne department, Normandy) observed, between midnight and 01:00 on 3 June 2020, a silent UAP traveling in a straight line overhead for an estimated 5 to 10 seconds. The phenomenon was described as composed primarily of two bluish light sources. GEIPAN — the UAP investigative unit operated under France's national space agency CNES, successor to GEPAN and SEPRA — assigned the case Classification D, meaning it remained unidentified after full inquiry. This file is the sketch produced by the third witness (croquis = hand drawing) and forms part of a multi-document case package that also includes gendarmerie procès-verbaux and technical notes.
Metadata
- Agency
- GEIPAN / CNES
- Release
- 2007-03-22
- Type
- PDF • .pdf
- Length
- 1 pages
- Classification
- D (unidentified after investigation)
- Programs
- GEIPAN, GEPAN, SEPRA
- Tags
- two blue lights, silent, rectilinear flight, nocturnal, Normandy France, 2020, GEIPAN, witness sketch, civilian observation
Key points
- GEIPAN Classification D: the phenomenon was not identified even after investigation — the highest-ambiguity rating in the French government's four-tier UAP taxonomy.
- Three witnesses were present simultaneously in an outdoor rural setting, providing corroborating perspectives for a single event.
- The UAP's passage was both silent and rectilinear — two characteristics GEIPAN investigators treat as diagnostically significant when ruling out conventional aircraft or meteors.
- Duration estimated by witnesses at 5 to 10 seconds — brief enough to preclude extended observation, long enough to allow shape and color impression.
- The phenomenon was described as constituted mainly of two bluish light sources, a morphology distinct from standard navigation-light configurations on known aircraft.
- This document is specifically the sketch (croquis) of Witness 3, one component of a multi-file case package; separate procès-verbaux and technical notes accompany it.
- The case falls under GEIPAN's lineage: GEPAN (1977) → SEPRA (1988) → GEIPAN (2005), the only continuous government UAP investigative body in a NATO member state.
Most interesting
- France is the only NATO member state with an unbroken, institutionally continuous government UAP investigation unit — GEIPAN's lineage runs from GEPAN (1977) through SEPRA and into the present.
- GEIPAN publishes its case files publicly through the CNES web portal, a transparency posture with no direct equivalent in the US declassification pipeline.
- The term 'croquis' (sketch) signals this file is a witness-produced illustration rather than a sensor readout or official report — hand drawings are a standard evidentiary element in GEIPAN case packages.
- Classification D in the GEIPAN system is reserved for cases where the phenomenon cannot be explained by any identified natural, atmospheric, or man-made cause after full investigation.
- Aunay-les-Bois is a commune of fewer than 700 residents in the Orne department — the rural, low-light-pollution setting is consistent with a sky-watching environment where faint or unusual lights would stand out immediately.
- The midnight-to-01:00 observation window and the absence of sound effectively eliminate most commercial and military fixed-wing traffic that would appear at low altitude in that corridor.