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 witness questionnaire for case 2010-11-02702: a 67-year-old woman in Le Mans reports a silent dark triangle outlined by three fixed lights (one red, two blue) passing low over her 9th-floor apartment on 21 November 2010 at 17h55.
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2010-11-02702 documenting a 15-second observation in Le Mans on 21 November 2010 of three lights (one red, two blue) bounding a dark triangular form, classified D1 (inexpliqué).
GEIPAN case file 2011-02-02732 documents a brief daytime sighting reported by a motorist on the A62 autoroute between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011, classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN case 2011-02-02732: French gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire describing a static, flat, triangular green-grey object seen for a few seconds from the A62 motorway between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011.
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2012-04-08222: a single witness in Saint-Lô observed two luminous points on 4 April 2012 at 20:15, with the second point orbiting the first in 15 seconds before disappearing behind a cloud; classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN case file 2012-04-08222 (part 2) documenting a 4 April 2012 sighting at Saint-Lô (Manche, France) of two luminous points moving east-to-north, classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2012-04-08222: a 50-year-old observer in Saint-Lô reports two yellow-white points crossing the sky on 4 April 2012, one flying straight while the second looped around it for 15 seconds before both entered a cloud.
GEIPAN investigation report on a single-witness sighting of a stationary white luminous object over a wheat field at Maffliers (Val-d'Oise, France) on 29 June 2012 at approximately 06:06 local time, classified D1 (unidentified).
GEIPAN case 2012-06-08256 (D1) gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire for a 29 June 2012 single-witness observation at Mafflieres, France of a luminous, silent object hovering over a wheat field before climbing and departing at fulgurating speed.
GEIPAN investigation report on a 17 June 2012 observation in Lambersart (Nord, France) of 10 to 15 silent, transparent spheres flying in formation from south to north, classified D1 (unidentified).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire (case 2012-06-08317, classification D1) describing a 15-second observation of 10 to 15 silent, transparent spheres flying south-to-north over Lambersart on 17 June 2012 at 04h00.
A CalSky celestial-calendar printout for Montchaboud, France on 26 July 2012, attached to GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299 as a satellite-pass cross-check for a witness's 22h20 sighting.
GEIPAN investigation report (3 February 2014) on a 26 July 2012 sighting at Montchaboud (Isère) of a vaporous spherical object crossing the sky in 3 to 6 seconds, classified D1 as unexplained.
GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299 (D1, unexplained): a witness at Montchaboud (Isère) saw a fast, silent, vaporous luminous ball with a trailing wake cross the sky south to north for 6 seconds on 26 July 2012 at 22h20; the attached technical annex is a Space Safety Magazine article on the uncontrolled reentry of Japanese spy satellite IGS-1B earlier that same day.
GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299: a French gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire on the 26 July 2012 observation at Montchaboud (Isère) of a silent vaporous luminous ball with trailing jets, classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2012-08-08284, a single-witness nighttime sighting of a silent, weaver's-shuttle-shaped object over Volx (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) on 8 August 2012, classified D1 (unidentified).
GEIPAN case 2012-08-08284 (classification D1) collects a French gendarmerie procès-verbal and CNES witness questionnaire on a silent, weaver-shuttle-shaped object seen for five seconds over Volx on the night of 8 August 2012.
GEIPAN case 2013-05-08459: a 23h45 observation near Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne (Orne, France) of a low-altitude pebble-shaped dark object with red lights and a high-pitched hum, classified D1 (unexplained, moderate strangeness, moderate consistency).
Witness questionnaire submitted to France's GEIPAN (CNES) for case 2013-05-08459, describing a low-flying dark pebble-shaped object with four red lights and a humming sound seen at Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne on 29 May 2013 at 23:45.
Gendarmerie witness audition for GEIPAN case 2013-05-08459: a plumber describes a dark pebble-shaped object with red lights and a high-pitched buzz hovering over the Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne cemetery at 23h45 on 29 May 2013.
GEIPAN investigation report on a 28 January 2014 close-range sighting at They-sous-Montfort (Vosges), France, of a luminous red ball with a blue-tinged tail; classified D1 (unexplained, single witness).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2014-01-08689: a 28 January 2014 night sighting at They-sous-Montfort (Vosges) of a low-altitude red luminous object with a small blue tail, classified D1 (unidentified strange).
GEIPAN field investigation of a 24 April 2014 sighting in Bornel, Oise, France, in which a retired couple observed a silent orange luminous ball that briefly resolved into a small triangular structure before resuming horizontal flight.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2014-04-50829, documenting a retired couple's 24 April 2014 sighting in Bornel (Oise) of a silent triangular object with a steady orange light, ultimately classified D1 (unexplained, average strangeness).
GEIPAN case file 2014-06-50078 (classification D1) on a 1 June 2014 nocturnal sighting at Étrelles (Ille-et-Vilaine, France) of a dark mass with two faint lights that vanished at high speed, ruled an unexplained phenomenon.
GEIPAN attachment: a CalSky celestial-calendar printout listing 31 satellite transits visible from Etrelles (lat 48°03'36"N, lon 1°11'38"W) during the hour starting 22h50m18s on 1 June 2014, used by investigators to check whether the witnesses' dark mass with two faint lights matched a satellite pass.
GEIPAN's 15 September 2014 investigation report on the 1 June 2014 Etrelles (Ille-et-Vilaine) sighting, classified D1 (unexplained) after two witnesses described a dark mass with two small whitish-green lights that briefly hovered then vanished at vertiginous speed.
GEIPAN case 2014-06-50078: two gendarmes on patrol at the Piquet industrial zone in Étrelles, France, reported a dark stationary mass with two small greenish-white lights overhead on 1 June 2014, which then accelerated east at extreme speed and vanished; classified D1 (inexpliqué).
GEIPAN case 2014-08-08968 (classification D1): a French gendarmerie procès-verbal and CNES-GEIPAN witness questionnaire documenting a 10-minute silent observation at 05:00 on 28 August 2014 from Camping California in Sainte-Lucie-de-Porto-Vecchio (Corsica) of a large dark circular mass with lights at its center, preceded and followed by rows of smaller dark forms.
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête classifying the 28 August 2014 ZONZA (Corsica) observation as D1, unexplained, after ruling out aircraft, satellites, clouds, and light shows.
GEIPAN field investigation of a Saint-Zacharie (Var, France) close-range sighting on 12 January 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
GEIPAN case 2015-01-09080: a witness in Saint-Zacharie (Var) reports a silent, slow-moving anthracite-grey oval craft passing within three meters of his mobile home at 07:00 on 12 January 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2015-10-09361: a single witness near Fumel aerodrome (Montayral, Lot-et-Garonne) observed a stationary black spot in a black fog for ~27 minutes on 23 October 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2015-10-09361, a single-witness sighting of a stationary, blurry black 'spot' in a clear sky over the Montayral aerodrome (Lot-et-Garonne, France) on 23 October 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
GEIPAN case report 2018-07-50618 (classification D1) on a 20-second nighttime sighting at Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (Haute-Garonne, France) on 8 July 2018 at 23h30 by a single witness who reported a shape-shifting luminous craft preceded by a meteor-like phase.
GEIPAN case file 2018-07-50618 (classification D1) documenting a single-witness sighting on 8 July 2018 at 23h30 in Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (Haute-Garonne, 31), France.
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2018-12-50686 documenting a 10 December 2018 nighttime sighting near La Forêt-Fouesnant (Finistère) of a silent yellow bar with a fluorescent green center light that changed trajectory over an agricultural field; classified D1 (unidentified).
GEIPAN case 2018-12-50686 (classification D1, unidentified): a witness driving on a private lane in La Forêt-Fouesnant, Finistère, observed a silent yellow bar with a fluorescent green central light on the morning of December 10, 2018.
GEIPAN's January 2025 investigation report on a 26 November 2019 sighting at Villers-lès-Luxeuil (Haute-Saône), where two witnesses driving separate cars reported a white light followed by a large near-stationary black triangle with a white forward light and a fixed red light, classified D1.
GEIPAN classification D1 case file: a couple driving home from Vesoul on 26 November 2019 reports a white light, then a large silent black triangle hovering at low altitude over Villers-lès-Luxeuil.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire from a Villers-lès-Luxeuil (Haute-Saône) couple reporting a silent, low-flying elongated black triangle with a white front light and a red rear light on 26 November 2019 around 17:20.
GEIPAN field investigation report on case 2020-01-50998: a pre-dawn sighting of three bright red rectangular lights hovering and accelerating over the Crozon peninsula on 13 January 2020, classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2020-01-50998: a single motorist driving the Crozon peninsula at 7:48 on 13 January 2020 reports three bright-red rectangular lights hovering 10 to 12 m above a rural crossroads in heavy wind and rain, classified D1 (unexplained).
GEIPAN case report 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified) for the nocturnal observation by three witnesses at Aunay-les-Bois (61), France, on 03 June 2020 of a silent, low-flying luminous phenomenon composed mainly of two bluish lights.
GEIPAN case file 2020-06-51034 (classification D) documenting an unidentified nocturnal observation of two bluish lights crossing silently in a straight line over Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, on 3 June 2020.
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified after investigation) documents three witnesses observing a silent, straight-line nighttime passage of two bluish lights over Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) between 00h and 01h on 3 June 2020.
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified after investigation): three witnesses in Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, France saw a silent, rectilinear PAN composed mainly of two bluish lights between 00h and 01h on 3 June 2020.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire (CNES) documenting a 5-second nocturnal sighting on 3 June 2020 of a silent linear UAP with two bluish lights over Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, France, classified D (unidentified after investigation).
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified after investigation) documents a nighttime sighting on 3 June 2020 in Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, France, in which three witnesses watched a silent, rectilinear pass of an aerospace phenomenon dominated by two bluish light sources for an estimated 5 to 10 seconds.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2020-06-51034: three adults in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne) report a silent, straight-line pass of two bluish lights with smaller points beneath, classified D (unidentified after investigation).
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified after investigation) documents three witnesses in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) observing the silent rectilinear passage of an unidentified aerospace phenomenon consisting principally of two bluish lights between midnight and 1 a.m. on 3 June 2020.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2020-06-51034, a Class D unidentified nocturnal sighting of a silent two-light object near Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, on 3 June 2020.
GEIPAN case 2022-03-51336: a witness in Douai (59), France, watched a silent triangular craft with yellow lights cross the sky for about 15 seconds on 27 March 2022 at 21h30 local time; the case is classified D1, unidentified after investigation.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2022-03-51336: a solo nighttime observation of a silent triangular craft with patterned underside lights crossing low over Douai on 27 March 2022 at 21:30 local time.
GEIPAN case file 2022-05-51350 (classification D), a two-page elevation-profile annex supplementing the witness report for a silent rectangular dark object observed over Montluel (Ain), France, on 14 May 2022.
GEIPAN case file 2022-05-51350 documenting a single-witness Montluel observation on May 14 2022 of a dark rectangular object that GEIPAN closed as classification D, unidentified after investigation.
GEIPAN case 2022-05-51350 (classification D, unidentified after investigation): a single witness in Montluel, Ain, France reports an eight-second nighttime passage of a dark rectangular object on 14 May 2022 around 03:10.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2022-05-51350, a single-witness sighting on May 14 2022 of a silent, dark rectangular object crossing the night sky over Montluel, France.
GEIPAN case 2022-09-51395, classified D (unidentified after investigation), documents a Ruffec witness's 13 September 2022 observation of a cyclically appearing white point of light tracking in an arc for roughly five minutes.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2022-09-51395, a classification-D unidentified observation of a cyclically reappearing white point of light over Ruffec (Charente, France) on 13 September 2022.