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- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation time: 0500 local, 28 August 2014; witness statement taken same day at 1840 by gendarmerie at Sainte-Lucie de Porto-Vecchio.
A gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a single witness's account of a silent, multi-element aerial formation — six lines of dark objects flanking a large luminous circle — observed over Corsica at 0500 on 28 August 2014, subsequently classified D1 (unidentified) by GEIPAN.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-08-08968 — ZONZA (2A) 28.08.2014
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Three adult civilian witnesses observed the phenomenon simultaneously from the garden of a rural property in Aunay-les-Bois (61), Orne department,...
GEIPAN Class D case: three civilian witnesses report a silent, linearly-moving bluish-lit UAP over rural Normandy at midnight on 3 June 2020, remaining unidentified after official investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Three adult witnesses observed the phenomenon simultaneously in a rural setting in Aunay-les-Bois (61500, Orne) on the night of 2-3 June 2020,...
GEIPAN's standard technical questionnaire submitted by three civilian witnesses describing a silent, two-light bluish aerial phenomenon observed near Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) on the night of 3 June 2020, classified Category D (unidentified) after investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Three adult witnesses observed the phenomenon from a rural garden at Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, 61500) on 3 June 2020, beginning around 00:00-00:30 local...
GEIPAN Classification D witness questionnaire documenting a silent two-light blue-white UAP observed by three adults for 5-10 seconds over rural Normandy on 3 June 2020, with no prosaic identification reached after investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Single civilian witness, naked eye, from a walled residential garden in Ruffec (16700, Charente), with no other witnesses present.
GEIPAN technical questionnaire for case 2022-09-51395: a single civilian witness in Ruffec, France observed a silent white luminous point cycling through appearance and disappearance at ~6-second intervals for roughly five minutes on the evening of 13 September 2022; the case was classified D (unidentified after investigation).
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-09-51395 — RUFFEC (16) 13.09.2022
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three reddish rings arranged in a triangle (one forward, two trailing) appeared suddenly at approximately 21:00 on December 16, 2022, over the...
A GEIPAN-investigated civilian witness report (classification D1: unidentified) of three silent reddish rings in a triangular formation observed for approximately ten seconds over HEM, northern France, on the night of December 16, 2022.
→ GEIPAN Case 2023-12-51504 — HEM (59) 16.12.2022
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Single civilian witness actively scanning the starry sky from a terrace in Volx (04) at approximately 23:00 on 8 August 2012; no other witnesses...
GEIPAN's December 2015 field-investigation report on an August 2012 civilian sighting in Volx, France: a silent, weaver's-shuttle-shaped object crossed the night sky in five seconds on a trajectory that eliminates every conventional explanation the agency could construct, closing as D1 (unidentified phenomenon).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-08-08284 — VOLX (04) 08.08.2012
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Witness T1 first mistook the object for an aircraft with an engine fire, then was arrested by its complete silence and an anomalous flight profile...
A standard GEIPAN witness questionnaire filed by a retired couple from Bornel, Oise, describing a silent triangular UAP with intense orange luminosity that hovered and rotated before disappearing into cloud cover on 24 April 2014.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-04-50829 — BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014
- 09PDFAeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) — Stato Maggiorep.2
All eleven sightings were reported exclusively by private citizens routed through the Carabinieri; no military or professional aviation witness...
Italian Air Force 2021 annual OVNI report cataloguing eleven civilian sightings across Italy, all ruled out as military flight or radiosounding activity and formally classified as O.V.N.I.
→ Aeronautica Militare OVNI Annual Report 2021
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.9
At 23:15 on May 30, 1989, three game wardens observed three powerful round projectors arranged in a triangular formation emitting simultaneous...
A 12-page GEIPAN/gendarmerie dossier recording a May 30, 1989 sighting near Neuvelle-les-Lure, France, in which three professional game wardens on night patrol observed a silent triangular formation of flashing lights that executed vertical ascent, sawtooth zigzag flight, and apparent electromagnetic correlation with a radio transmission before departing at...
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-05-01176 — NEUVELLE-LES-LURE (LA) (70) 30.05.1989
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Object estimated at a minimum 25–30 meters in diameter but potentially under 1 meter in height — described as enormous and flat.
GEIPAN D1-classified witness questionnaire in which a motorist near Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne, Normandy, reports a massive flat pebble-shaped dark UAP with four red lights hovering at roughly 30 meters altitude before drifting slowly northwest on the night of 29 May 2013.
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459 — MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Single civilian witness: a female literature student driving alone on a departmental road near Cambrai at approximately 23:50 on December 16, 1988.
A French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a December 16, 1988 sighting near Cambrai in which a female student witnessed a silent, disc-shaped object hovering 20 meters above a plowed field, bearing 4 to 6 large underside lights, assigned GEIPAN classification D (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 1988-12-01156 — RUES-DES-VIGNES (LES) (59) 16.12.1988
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Observation ran from 17:31 to 17:58 local time (27 minutes), with one brief interruption when the witness checked the car clock.
A GEIPAN witness questionnaire documenting a single civilian's 27-minute sighting of a stationary, deep-black diffuse sphere over the Fumel aerodrome in Montayral, France on 23 October 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-10-09361 — MONTAYRAL (47) 23.10.2015
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Date and time: Sunday 27 March 2022 at 21:30 local summer time; location: Douai (59), Nord, Hauts-de-France.
GEIPAN case 2022-03-51336: a single female witness in Douai, Nord reports a silent equilateral-triangle UAP with colored lights on a straight SE-to-NW heading on the night of 27 March 2022, classified D1 (unexplained after investigation) by CNES/GEIPAN.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-03-51336 — DOUAI (59) 27.03.2022
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.5
Single witness, no corroboration, no photograph or instrument data; observation lasted approximately 15 seconds beginning at 04:00 on 17 June 2012.
GEIPAN investigation report of a June 2012 sighting in Lambersart, France, in which a single witness observed 10–15 silent transparent spheres flying in tight formation at estimated altitude 1,460–2,000 m, with calculated diameters of 49–68 m; classified D1 — unidentified.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08317 — LAMBERSART (59) 17.06.2012
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Single civilian witness — a retired amateur astronomer with no prior interest in UAP — observed a vaporous, silent sphere slightly larger than the...
GEIPAN investigation report classifying a 2012 Montchaboud, France UAP observation by a single civilian witness as D1 (unexplained) after ruling out seven distinct hypothesis categories.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The witness observed a single dark, pebble-shaped object hovering above the Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne cemetery at approximately 23:45 on May 29, 2013,...
GEIPAN's July 2013 investigation report of a single-witness sighting of a large, dark, pebble-shaped UAP with four red lights and a high-pitched hum over a Norman village cemetery, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459 — MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Incident date: 3 May 1997, approximately 01:30. Reported to gendarmerie on 13 May 1997; case formally closed 4 June 1997.
French gendarmerie procès-verbal (PV 00203/97) documenting a GEIPAN Category-D case from 3 May 1997 in which two civilian witnesses in Meilleraye-de-Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, observed a round orange-amber luminous object travel north-to-south over their housing estate at night, with no conventional explanation determined.
→ GEIPAN Case 1997-05-01661 — MEILLERAYE DE BRETAGNE (44) 1997
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
CalSky was queried specifically for Etrelles, France at the reported sighting time of 1 June 2014, 22:50:18 TDT, for a one-hour calculation window.
A CalSky satellite-pass calendar printout queried for Etrelles, France at 22:50:18 CET on 1 June 2014 — investigative support material produced by GEIPAN to test orbital-object hypotheses for case 2014-06-50078, a D1-classified unexplained sighting of a dark aerial mass with two small lights that accelerated suddenly and vanished.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation occurred at approximately 05:00 on August 28, 2014, at Camping Le California near Sainte-Lucie de Porto-Vecchio, Corsica; the witness was...
GEIPAN investigation report classifying the August 28, 2014 Zonza, Corsica observation of a large silent dark circular mass with interior lights and escorted formations as D1 — unexplained, medium-to-high strangeness.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-08-08968 — ZONZA (2A) 28.08.2014
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation was made at 17h55 on 21 November 2010 from an open 9th-floor kitchen window in the Quartier des Sablons, Le Mans; the witness had lived...
GEIPAN case 2010-11-02702: a single civilian witness in Le Mans observed a low-altitude, matte-black triangular object bearing three fixed lights travel approximately 1.6 km in 15 seconds on 21 November 2010; the case was classified D1 — unexplained, high strangeness — after elimination of all standard hypotheses.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-11-02702 — MANS (LE) (72) 21.11.2010
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The CalSky lookup is anchored to Montchaboud, France at WGS84 coordinates Lon +5d45m46.4s, Lat +45d05m42.9s, altitude 577 m, on the evening of July...
A CalSky orbital-prediction printout generated by GEIPAN investigators on September 3, 2012, listing every tracked satellite and celestial event visible from Montchaboud, France on the evening of July 26, 2012 — the night of a 6-second UAP sighting at 22h20 local time that GEIPAN classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 23PDFRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australiap.1
The index was compiled by Isaac Koi from a table by Keith Basterfield, with permission from the National Archives of Australia on behalf of the...
A researcher-compiled index of every National Archives of Australia file series holding RAAF and Commonwealth government UAP records, with barcodes and page counts enabling direct archival retrieval, spanning 1950–1994.
→ NAA UFO File Numbers — Researcher FOIA / Access Notes Index
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The observation occurred at Rixheim (68170), Alsace, on 26 July 2009 at approximately 23h45 local time, per the annex header — a discrepancy of...
GEIPAN Annex 01 for Case 2009-07-02361: a four-page geographic localization document mapping the Rixheim (68170) observation site relative to two nearby aerodromes and the Basel-Mulhouse international airport.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009