GEIPAN, the official UAP investigation unit of France's national space agency CNES, has published roughly 3,000 case investigations drawn from 8,000 testimonies since 1977, the longest-running continuously-operating government UAP program in the world. Open the full archive at GEIPAN (CNES) ↗
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GEIPAN case 1951-06-00002 collects French Air Force reports of a silvery spherical-then-oblong object pursued by two Vampire jet pilots from Orange-Caritat air base on 15 June 1951.
French Navy transmission of a S/S "LE VERDON" captain's report describing a luminous orange circular object observed over Port-Gentil, Gabon at 02:40 on 1 June 1952, which stopped, turned right, and resumed course twice before passing over the anchored ship.
GEIPAN case 1953-04-00005: a French Air Force captain at Limoges-Romanet's Depot 603 reported a silent red-orange point making a 45-degree east-west-east traverse of the sky on 11 April 1953, witnessed by three personnel and transmitted up the Air Ministry chain.
French Gendarmerie report no. 785/2 from Amiens documents two cyclists' 7 September 1954 observation of a grey cylindrical object roughly 10 metres in diameter and 2.5-3 metres tall, sitting in a field between Harponville and Contay before lifting off silently with blue smoke.
French Gendarmerie reports from September 1954 documenting two cyclists' close-range observation of a grey cylindrical object resting in a field between Harponville and Contay, which lifted off silently at oblique then vertical trajectory emitting blue smoke.
French Gendarmerie Nationale report and witness depositions on a September 7, 1954 close-range observation of a circular landed object between Harponville and Contay (Somme), investigated by GEIPAN as case 1954-09-00008.
French gendarmerie procès-verbaux on the 27 September 1954 Prémanon (Jura) sighting in which three children reported a rectangular aluminum-colored craft, with a follow-up report documenting a 3.50 m / 2.50 m ground ring and four trapezoidal indentations.
GEIPAN case file 1954-10-09217 (classification D) documenting a luminous aerial phenomenon observed by military personnel at a radar station near Doullens (Somme, France) on 19 October 1954.
French Air Force security service file transmitting two soldiers' statements from radar station 20/911 at Doullens describing a disc-shaped, color-changing luminous object stabilized at roughly 800 m over La Bellevue on 19 October 1954.
GEIPAN case 1963-11-01791: a CEA plasma physicist's first-person reconstruction of a stationary orange luminous sphere observed near Prémesques (Nord, France) on 11 November 1963 that, after oscillating, accelerated horizontally across the sky in 1 to 2 seconds before disappearing into the cloud layer.
GEIPAN case 1963-11-01791 (D1, inexpliqué moyennement consistant): a Premesques, Nord France sighting on 11 November 1963 around 15-16h of a stationary orange luminous ball that oscillated, then accelerated silently across the cloud base, witnessed by a father (55) and his two sons (18 and 13) and reported to GEIPAN in April 2008.
GEIPAN's June 26 2015 cover note releasing the three gendarmerie procès-verbaux from the July 1 1965 Valensole close-encounter case, fifty years after the event.
GEIPAN case 1965-07-00050: French gendarmerie procès-verbaux documenting the Valensole, Basses-Alpes close-encounter and landing-trace report by a lavender farmer on 1 July 1965, classified D (unidentified) by CNES's UAP unit.
GEIPAN re-examination note for case 1976-03-00292, a 25 March 1976 daytime sighting near Thuir (Pyrénées-Orientales) of an oval luminous craft topped by a dome, retained at classification D1 (unexplained, low consistency, marked strangeness).
GEIPAN case 1976-03-00292: a French gendarmerie file documenting three witnesses, including a retired Air Force reserve commander, who reported a large oval craft topped by a dome crossing the sky east-to-west near Thuir on March 25 1976.
GEIPAN 2011 re-examination of a 25 November 1976 close encounter at Saint-Etienne-de-Geoirs, classified PAN D1 (unexplained, low consistency, high strangeness).
Gendarmerie procès-verbal N° 745/1976 documenting a farmer's close-range sighting of a cylindrical luminous object near Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (Isère) on 25 November 1976, classified D1 (unexplained) by GEIPAN.
GEIPAN reinvestigation report (16 January 2019) of a 21 July 1979 nighttime UAP observation at Pranles (Ardèche), France, by four witnesses in two independent groups.
GEIPAN case file 1979-07-00644: gendarmerie procès-verbal and a 10-page technical witness report on a stationary yellow-orange ovoid light projecting a rotating blue 360° beam over Pranles (Ardèche, France) on 21 July 1979, 22:45 to 23:28.
GEIPAN's 2018 re-examination of a 16 March 1980 case at L'Éguille (Charente-Maritime), where three witnesses watched a silent, yellow-orange luminous mass hover near the village cemetery around 00:30 for an estimated 45 minutes before departing.
Gendarmerie procès-verbal N° 328/80 documenting three witnesses' observation of a luminous yellow-orange cigar-shaped object near the L'Eguille cemetery (Charente-Maritime) on the night of 15-16 March 1980, investigated by GEIPAN as case 1980-03-00751.
GEIPAN re-examination report for case 1982-01-00913: two gendarmes on the A10 autoroute observed a mobile luminous phenomenon illuminating large patches of landscape over roughly 29-32 km between Trancrainville (28) and Ormes (45) on 23 January 1982, classified D (unexplained).
Gendarmerie procès-verbal N°154/1982 documenting two officers' 20-minute observation of an unidentified luminous mass and ground-illumination phenomenon over 29 km of the A10 Aquitaine motorway near Trancrainville, France, on 23 January 1982.
GEIPAN case 1988-12-01156 (classification D): gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a single witness who reported a round, silent object hovering 20 meters above a plowed field near Les Rues-des-Vignes (Nord, France) on the night of 16 December 1988.
GEIPAN case 1989-03-01170 documents a gendarmerie investigation into a red fireball sighted near Mayet (Sarthe) on the night of 2-3 March 1989, with reported electromagnetic effects on a witness's car.
GEIPAN case 1989-05-01176 (classification D): gendarmerie procès-verbaux and federation correspondence on a 30 May 1989 sighting near Neuvelle-les-Lure (Haute-Saône) by three national hunting wardens of three flashing projectors performing silent zigzag maneuvers and vertical ascent.
GEIPAN/SEPRA enquiry report (3 October 1989) on a 4 September 1989 observation at Bertre (Tarn) of a stationary luminous object above a witness's roof, with reported heat-marked tiles and physical samples taken.
GEIPAN/SEPRA case 1989-09-01666 (part 2): three French news clippings from September 1989 covering the Bertre (Tarn) observation of a stationary luminous object above a retiree's roof, with discoloured and lifted tiles documented by CNES investigators.
Part 3 of GEIPAN case 1989-09-01666, an unexplained (D1) sighting of a luminous spinning-top-shaped object stationary above a house roof in Bertre, Tarn, on 4 September 1989, comprising ten annotated Polaroid site photographs.
Gendarmerie procès-verbal 599/89 and SEPRA follow-up on a 4 September 1989 sighting at Bertre (Tarn), where retiree F. A. reported a luminous spinning-top object stationed above his roof, leaving discolored, displaced tiles and a sagged ridge.
French national police procès-verbal No. 755, transmitted to GEPAN at the Toulouse space center, documenting multi-night ovoid-with-red-and-green-lights sightings over Longuenesse (Pas-de-Calais) on 8, 9, 11 September and mid-October 1990, observed by witness L. B. and corroborated by a Police Nationale patrol.
GEIPAN's 2018 re-examination of a 15 November 1993 sighting at Ecquevilly (Yvelines), where a lone witness saw a silent circle of variable-color lights pass over his house at 04:30 for 20 to 25 seconds; the case is kept classified D, phénomène inexpliqué.
GEIPAN case file for the November 15, 1993 Ecquevilly (Yvelines) sighting, classified D (unexplained), containing the gendarmerie procès-verbal, witness audition, location sketches, photographs, and the witness's own drawings of a silent circular light formation that hovered then moved over his house at roughly 04:30.
GEIPAN case 1993-11-01338: a gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a witness's hour-long observation of a stationary yellow luminous sphere near Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut (Ardèche) on 26 November 1993, classified D (unexplained) after the inquiry ruled out aircraft, balloons, and military activity.
Météo-France technical note prepared for GEIPAN ruling out the Trappes 12 UTC radiosonde as the explanation for the unexplained phenomenon observed by Air France flight AF 3532 over Coulommiers on 28 January 1994.
SEPRA/CNES 2001 final investigation report on Air France flight AF 3532's January 28, 1994 sighting near Coulommiers, where a three-person Airbus A320 crew observed a shape-shifting reddish-brown disc that vanished in sync with an unidentified radar track logged by France's Centre d'Opérations de la Défense Aérienne.
French Air Force CODA chronology of the January 28 1994 Air France AFR 3532 Airbus encounter over Coulommiers, in which a three-person cockpit crew tracked an unidentified object for one minute at flight level 370.
GEIPAN file 1994-01-01345: gendarmerie procès-verbal PV 351/97 documenting the 28 January 1994 Air France 3532 (Nice-London) Airbus A320 crew sighting of a disc-shaped object near Coulommiers, with a 50-second radar track from the Cinq-Mars-la-Pile defense detection center.
GEIPAN file on the 28 January 1994 Air France 3532 Nice-London sighting near Coulommiers, where the A320 crew reported a giant disc-shaped object that air-defense radar at Cinq-Mars-la-Pile tracked for 50 seconds before it became transparent and vanished.
GEIPAN case file on the January 28 1994 sighting by the Air France 3532 (Nice-London) Airbus A320 crew over Coulommiers, including the captain's report, copilot statements, gendarmerie procès-verbal, Paris Match coverage, and SEPRA/CNES correspondence on a 50-second radar track.
GEIPAN case 1994-06-01360: three French gendarmes on night patrol near Ussy-sur-Marne report a stationary triangular object with three yellow-white lights over the A4 motorway bridge on 24 June 1994.
Gendarmerie procès-verbal 727/94 documenting a couple's 30 October 1994 sighting near Sélestat of a luminous triangle-and-circle craft that paced their car for roughly 25 minutes before departing across the fields.
GEIPAN case file 1994-10-01377 (classification D): a witness's gendarmerie statement and hand-drawn sketch describing a luminous circle-within-triangle object that paced a car near Sélestat, Bas-Rhin, on 30 October 1994.
GEIPAN case 1997-05-01661: gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a couple's nighttime sighting of a round orange luminous mass over La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique) on 3 May 1997, classified D (unexplained).
GEIPAN's November 20 2012 enquête report on a July 8 2008 sighting from Mont Bergiès (Drôme) by two amateur astronomers who tracked an ovoid object through a 9x50 finder scope, classified D1 (unexplained, moderately strange, good consistency).
GEIPAN case 2008-07-02443 (D1, unexplained, moderately strange): a CNES 'Appel aux astronomes amateurs' cover document plus the witness compte rendu for an ovoid point of light observed on 8 July 2008 at 21h25 local time from Montagne de Bergiès (Barret-de-Lioure, Drôme) through a 9x50 finder scope.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361, classification D1: a 7-to-8 second linear south-to-north light over Rixheim on 26 July 2009 that ELVIRA multi-radar replay could not corroborate.
GEIPAN annex computing whether Cosmos 1151 Rocket could account for phase 1 of a white-point sighting over Rixheim on 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN annex 01 for case 2009-07-02361 mapping the Rixheim (68) 26 July 2009 sighting location relative to Basel-Mulhouse airport and the Habsheim aerodrome.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361: a Rixheim resident's gendarmerie deposition describing a white point of light that, after tracking like a satellite, executed a westward turn and accelerated overhead on 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361: a Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) witness on his terrace saw a white point of light track south-north, vanish briefly, then reappear, bank west, and cross overhead silently on July 26, 2009; classified D1, unexplained.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361 (classification D1) documenting a 7-8 second observation of a white point of light maneuvering over Rixheim, France on 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN annex computing whether Cosmos 1151 Rocket could account for the first phase of a luminous-point sighting at Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) on 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361 (classification D1) Annex 01: geographic-location maps for a Rixheim, Alsace witness who saw a white point of light move south-to-north for 7-8 seconds on 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361 documents a Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) witness's gendarmerie deposition describing a white point of light that flew south-to-north like a satellite, then turned west and accelerated overhead on the night of 26 July 2009.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361: a French civil aviation (DGAC/LFSB Bâle-Mulhouse) ATC incident file responding to the CNES/GEIPAN radar-trace request for the Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) 26 July 2009 sighting, with METAR data and a confirmation that multiradar review found no track over Rixheim.
GEIPAN investigation report (case 2009-07-02361) on a 26 July 2009 nighttime observation in Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, of a white point of light that made a directional change and apparent acceleration; classified D1 (low strangeness, unexplained).
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361 reconstructs a 26 July 2009 sighting at Rixheim (Haut-Rhin, France) of a white point of light that moved S-N then curved, classified D1 (unexplained but low strangeness).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2010-01-02498: a single observer in Taverny (Val-d'Oise) reports a silent dark triangular shape with three pale orange circular lights crossing east to west on 4 January 2010 around 19:45.
GEIPAN case 2010-01-02498: a single-witness sighting at Taverny (95) on 4 January 2010 of a dark triangular craft with three pale yellow-orange disc lights, classified D1 (unexplained).