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- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three adult witnesses simultaneously observed the UAP from a rural garden in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne) between 00h30 and 01h00 on June 3, 2020; all three...
GEIPAN Classification D investigation report on a June 2020 nocturnal sighting of two silent blue-white lights by three adult witnesses in rural Normandy, France, which remained unidentified after a multi-year inquiry including radar checks, cognitive interviews, and IPACO photogrammetric analysis.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
T1 observed a white luminous point below the cloud ceiling near Saulx-de-Vesoul that rose vertically into the clouds and reappeared above the village...
A GEIPAN/CNES investigation report (January 2025) documenting a 26 November 2019 sighting by two motorists of a silent, dark triangular UAP over Villers-les-Luxeuil, France, classified D1 after conventional aircraft and drone hypotheses could not fully account for the observation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2019-11-50872 — VILLERS-LES-LUXEUIL (70) 26.11.2019
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The sole witness observed a stationary, silver-white luminous object above a wheat field approximately 17 minutes after sunrise on June 29, 2012,...
GEIPAN investigation report (April 2014) for case 2012-06-08256 — a single civilian witness observed a large, stationary, silver-white luminous object above a wheat field near Maffliers (Val-d'Oise) for under twenty seconds before it departed at extreme speed; classified D1 (unidentified) after two field reconstructions and systematic elimination of...
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08256 — MAFFLIERS (95) 29.06.2012
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.13
Observation time anchored to 22:26 by EXIF timestamp on Nokia Lumia 920 photo 1 (WP_20140424_22_26_18_Pro.jpg); corrected for a measured 25-second...
GEIPAN investigative report (finalized 19 September 2019) on a D1-classified UAP observed by a retired couple in Bornel, Oise, France on the night of 24 April 2014: a silent orange incandescent fireball later revealed as a light source mounted on the leading edge of a 4-meter triangular gray craft that executed an abrupt halt, vertical descent, off-axis...
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-04-50829 — BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Single female civilian witness observed the UAP from her garden in Douai (59) on 27 March 2022 at 21h30 during a routine dog walk; she submitted a...
GEIPAN case D1: a single civilian witness in Douai, France reported a silent, triangular UAP with yellow and orange-pink lights on 27 March 2022; the phenomenon remained unidentified after full field investigation and radar cross-reference.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-03-51336 — DOUAI (59) 27.03.2022
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.7
Single witness: civilian stock trader, observed from his apartment balcony at 03:10 on 14 May 2022 in Montluel (Ain, 01); wife and children were...
GEIPAN Classification D investigation report for a single-witness sighting of a silent, dark rectangular UAP over Montluel, Ain, France at 03:10 on 14 May 2022, notable for a reported cloud-deformation effect at the object's edges; unidentified after full investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-05-51350 — MONTLUEL (01) 14.05.2022
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The case file constituent parts listed in the header include: PV d'enquête préliminaire, croquis d'état des lieux, planche photographique, PV...
A French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting the November 15, 1993 observation of a silent, multi-colored circle of lights over Ecquevilly (Seine-et-Marne), formally classified GEIPAN category D — unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01335 — ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation took place 4 April 2012 at 20:15 during twilight (sunset 20:34), from a residential garden in southern Saint-Lô, Manche, Basse-Normandie.
GEIPAN's investigation of a 15-second Saint-Lô sighting on 4 April 2012 — two luminous points, one orbiting the other in ellipses and sharp-angle deflections — closes as D1 (unexplained) after all standard hypotheses are eliminated.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-04-08222 — SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.7
Single witness observed the phenomenon from the Fumel aerodrome plateau, duration 17:31 to 17:58 — approximately 27 minutes of continuous observation.
GEIPAN investigation report classifying a 2015 daytime sighting of a stationary black opaque object near the Fumel aerodrome in Montayral (Lot-et-Garonne, France) as D1 — unexplained phenomenon of average strangeness.
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-10-09361 — MONTAYRAL (47) 23.10.2015
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two witnesses in a service vehicle observed the phenomenon at 23h07 on June 1, 2014, in the ZI du Piquet industrial zone on the northern outskirts of...
GEIPAN formal inquiry report on a June 2014 sighting of a silent, fast-departing dark rectangular mass bearing two greenish-white lights over an industrial zone in Brittany, France, classified D1 (unexplained, high consistency).
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The witness observed a silent white luminous point moving S-N for 7-8 seconds, then apparently turning westward and accelerating during a second...
GEIPAN investigation report (case D1, report dated 2011-09-02) of a 10-12 second naked-eye observation over Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, France on July 26, 2009, in which a silent white luminous point executed an apparent directional change and acceleration that no conventional hypothesis fully explains.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Single civilian witness settled on terrace at approximately 22h20; the UAP sighting itself ended at 23h48 by an immediately-checked radio-controlled...
GEIPAN investigation report (classification D1) for a 10-to-12-second naked-eye sighting in Rixheim, France on 26 July 2009, in which a silent white luminous point changed direction and accelerated before vanishing in open sky — remaining unexplained after radar cross-checks, satellite-pass analysis, and systematic hypothesis elimination.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Sightings occurred on at least four separate nights — September 8, 9, 11, and mid-October 1990 — each beginning around 21:30 and lasting several...
French National Police procès-verbal documenting multi-night observations of an unidentified ovoid object with red and green lights near Longuenesse (Pas-de-Calais), corroborated by two independent patrol units and forwarded to GEPAN — unresolved, GEIPAN Category D.
→ GEIPAN Case 1990-09-01214 — LONGUENESSE (62) 08.09.1990
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Observation occurred at 21h25 legal time (19h25 UTC) on Tuesday 8 July 2008 from the summit of Montagne de Bergiès, commune of Barret-de-Lioure...
GEIPAN amateur-astronomer questionnaire documenting a D1-classified UAP sighting on 8 July 2008 from the summit of Montagne de Bergiès (Drôme, France): an ovoid, metallic-gray object of approximately -4 magnitude observed through a 9x50 finder scope by two witnesses.
→ GEIPAN Case 2008-07-02443 — BARRET-DE-LIOURE (26) 08.07.2008
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The object was described as a single, roughly round, luminous yellow sphere with visible light flashes at different points on its surface and no...
French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a civilian's one-hour observation of a stationary yellow luminous sphere over the Ardèche on 26 November 1993, forwarded to CNES/SEPRA and classified GEIPAN Category D — unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01338 — SAINT-SAUVEUR-DE-MONTAGUT (07) 26.11.1993
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two amateur astronomers observed a bright, pulsing point from the 1360-meter summit of Bergiès mountain, Barret-de-Lioure, Drôme, at approximately...
A GEIPAN investigation report classifying an ovoid UAP observed through a 9x50 finder scope by two amateur astronomers at Barret-de-Lioure, Drôme, France on July 8, 2008 as D1 — unexplained, moderately strange, good consistency.
→ GEIPAN Case 2008-07-02443 — BARRET-DE-LIOURE (26) 08.07.2008
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
IGS-1B was launched March 28, 2003 alongside companion IGS-1A on an H2A rocket into a 486 x 491 km orbit at 97-degree inclination; it had been...
A Space Safety Magazine article documenting amateur telescopic photography of the Japanese classified spy satellite IGS-1B during its final pre-reentry orbits, collected by GEIPAN investigators as open-source reference material for UAP case 2012-07-08299 — a D1 (unexplained) sighting from Montchaboud, France on the same calendar date as the satellite's...
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The Trappes radiosonde was launched at 11h18 UTC on January 28, 1994 — 56 minutes before the crew sighting at 13h14.
A Météo-France technical note reconstructs the January 28, 1994 Trappes radiosonde trajectory to assess whether it could explain what Air France flight AF3532's crew observed near Coulommiers — and concludes it cannot account for the reported size.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345 — « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
LFSB's INCA incident log records the event at 21:46 UTC (23:46 CEST) on 26 July 2009, a roughly 86-minute discrepancy from the witness-reported 22:20...
A GEIPAN/CNES formal radar-trace request to Basel-Mulhouse Airport (LFSB) for a July 2009 unidentified luminous-point observation over Rixheim, France — radar returned negative; case closed D1 (unexplained but minimally anomalous).
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN director Yvan Blanc formally requested radar data from LFSB under the CNES/DGAC protocol, citing an ongoing investigation into the Rixheim...
An LFSB (Basel-Mulhouse) INCA incident report documenting GEIPAN's formal radar-data request for a July 2009 Rixheim luminous-point sighting, with the airport's ELVIRA multi-radar review returning no corroborating track.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN assigned classification D1 (inexpliqué) after a full field investigation, placing the case at the agency's highest anomaly tier — confirmed...
GEIPAN classification-D1 investigation of a June 2014 nocturnal UAP sighting near Etrelles, France, cross-referenced against BOAM amateur meteor-network camera telemetry that captured a sporadic event at the same timestamp.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.8
The witness, suffering from chronic insomnia, saw an intense exterior light, descended to the adjacent alfalfa field at approximately 04:30, and...
French Gendarmerie procès-verbal and CNES/SEPRA investigation file documenting a 68-year-old witness's September 1989 nighttime observation of a faceted luminous object hovering above his farmhouse roof in the Tarn département, with laboratory-sampled physical traces on roof tiles and vegetation.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666 — « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three vivid-red horizontal rectangles, each estimated ~2 m long by 50 cm–1 m tall and spaced ~1 m apart, were observed at close range (~10 m...
GEIPAN's formal investigation report (case D1 — unexplained) of a single-witness sighting of three stationary, silent vivid-red rectangles hovering over the Crozon peninsula on 13 January 2020, which held position against gale-force wind before accelerating skyward at high speed.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-01-50998 — CROZON (29) 13.01.2020
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
The witness left a 149-second voicemail at 23:41 — 10 minutes after the sighting — describing 4 horizontally aligned luminous points that became 2,...
A GEIPAN/CNES investigation report (case 2018-07-50618, classification D1) documenting a 20-second nocturnal sighting by a single civilian witness in Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières, France on 8 July 2018, in which a multi-phase aerial phenomenon descended silently from apparent high altitude, shifted between rectangular and triangular forms, and executed a rapid...
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-07-50618 — SAINTE-FOY-DE-PEYROLIERES (31) 08.07.2018