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  1. 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3

    The investigation report (compte rendu d'enquête) on AF 3532, the same January 1994 Coulommiers airliner sighting GEIPAN's case file 1994-01-01345 classifies as unexplained.

    The compte rendu d'enquête (investigation report) accompanying PV n351 for the AF 3532 case. The same Coulommiers airliner encounter from 28 January 1994 that GEIPAN classifies as unexplained in its official inventory.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 2)

  2. 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345, the AF 3532 Coulommiers airline encounter, 28 January 1994. The procès-verbal from PV n351, the SEPRA-era case file the agency considers unexplained.

    Air France flight AF 3532 reported an unidentified craft over Coulommiers on 28 January 1994. The procès-verbal PV n351 is the gendarmerie record of the crew's interview. The case is filed in GEIPAN's archive as 1994-01-01345 and is classified D, the agency's unexplained category, in the official inventory.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 5)

  3. 03PDFGEPAN / CNES (Centre national d'études spatiales)p.1

    GEPAN Technical Note 16, the official Trans-en-Provence forensic dossier. Soil compaction consistent with mechanical loading, iron and phosphate traces, sub-600 C heating, and distance-graded biochemical changes in alfalfa leaves around a single witness, M. Colini, on 8 January 1981.

    On 8 January 1981 around 17:00, Monsieur Colini observed an unidentified craft descend between two large conifers onto the terrace of his Trans-en-Provence property in the Var, rest for an estimated 30-40 seconds, and depart rapidly to the northeast at between 30 and 70 meters from him throughout. Gendarmerie arrived the next morning, photographed the site, auditioned the witness, and forwarded soil and plant samples to INRA laboratories. The TN 16 dossier integrates witness testimony, gendarmerie records, and the multi-lab forensic findings (soil compaction consistent with mechanical loading, iron and phosphate traces, sub-600 C thermal indicators, distance-graded biochemical changes in alfalfa specimens). The agency's stated threshold for opening a formal inquiry was that two independent evidence types had to be present and confrontable; Trans-en-Provence cleared that bar.

    → GEPAN Technical Note 16, Trans-en-Provence Investigation (Enquête 81/01)

  4. 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    The 2015 GEIPAN synthesis on Valensole, the 1 July 1965 close-encounter with Maurice Masse. After fifty years of institutional awareness, the three gendarmerie procès-verbaux were finally released as the primary official record.

    Maurice Masse, a lavender farmer at Valensole in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, reported a 1 July 1965 close-encounter with two small humanoid figures next to a parked ovoid craft. The case is one of the most-cited French CE-III cases of the 1960s. GEIPAN's 2015 synthesis was the first time its three gendarmerie procès-verbaux were released as the primary official record; before that, fifty years of institutional awareness had produced no published official source.

    → GEIPAN Case 1965-07-00050, VALENSOLE (04) 01.07.1965 (part 1)

  5. 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN reference DTN_DA_GP-2024.0012609, edition 1 revision 0, dated 03/11/2025, marked Non sensible.

    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 2020-06-51034, AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020 (part 1)

  6. 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Witness Mme S. N. reported observing a single, roughly round, luminous yellow ball with light flashes on its surface, from her home, with no audible noise.

    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.

    → GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01338, SAINT-SAUVEUR-DE-MONTAGUT (07) 26.11.1993

  7. 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Reference DTN_DA_GP-2024.0012609, edition 1 revision 0 dated 20 January 2025, 41 pages, classification 'Non sensible'.

    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 Case 2019-11-50872, VILLERS-LES-LUXEUIL (70) 26.11.2019 (part 1)

  8. 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Witnesses emailed GEIPAN on 28 April 2014; standard questionnaire returned 29 April 2014; investigator missioned 7 May 2014; cognitive interview and reconstitution held at the witnesses' home on 17 May 2014.

    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 Case 2014-04-50829, BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014 (part 1)

  9. 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case reference DTN_DA_GP-2024.0012609, edition 1 revision 0 dated 09/09/2025, classified Non sensible.

    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 Case 2022-03-51336, DOUAI (59) 27.03.2022 (part 1)

  10. 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN reference DTN_DA_GP-2024.0012609; report edition 1, revision 0, dated 03/12/2025.

    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 Case 2022-09-51395, RUFFEC (16) 13.09.2022 (part 1)

  11. 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    GEIPAN received the witness questionnaire by email on May 17 2022, three days after the observation.

    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, MONTLUEL (01) 14.05.2022 (part 2)

  12. 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Observation occurred 23 January 1982 between 04:35 and 04:55 on the A10 'Aquitaine' across communes of Trancrainville, Le Puiset, Allaines, Bazoches-les-Hautes, Santilly, Dambron, Poupry (28), Artenay, Sougy, Chevilly, Gidy, Cercottes (45).

    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 1982-01-00913, TRANCRAINVILLE (28) 23.01.1982 (part 2)

  13. 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Single witness observation on 10 December 2018 between approximately 07h20 and 07h40, before sunrise at 08h59 local (07h59 UTC).

    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, FORET-FOUESNANT (LA) (29) 10.12.2018 (part 1)

  14. 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Air France 3532, Airbus A320 F-GFKG, Nice-London, cruising at FL390 (11,700 m) over Coulommiers on 28 January 1994 at 13:14.

    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 Case 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 4)

  15. 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Incident occurred on January 28 1994 over Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne) at flight level 390 (11,700 m) aboard Air France 3532, Airbus A320 registered F-GFKG, Nice-London.

    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 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 6)

  16. 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Procès-verbal n° 511/1979 records the observation of an "O.V.N.I." phenomenon at Pranles on 21 July 1979, reported to gendarmes on 23 July 1979 at 14:30.

    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 Case 1979-07-00644, PRANLES (07) 21.07.1979 (part 2)

  17. 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN received the witness's terrestrial questionnaire by email on 6 April 2012, two days after the observation, with one witness only.

    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 2012-04-08222, SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012 (part 1)

  18. 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case opened when GEIPAN received the witness's completed "témoignage standard" questionnaire by email on 21.08.2012 for an observation in Volx (04) on the night of 08.08.2012 around 23:00.

    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, VOLX (04) 08.08.2012 (part 1)

  19. 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Observation occurred 23/10/2015 from 17:31 to 17:58 at the Fumel aerodrome on the commune of Montayral (Lot-et-Garonne); single witness, no gendarmerie report.

    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 Case 2015-10-09361, MONTAYRAL (47) 23.10.2015 (part 1)

  20. 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Two witnesses (T1 and T2) driving at 15-20 km/h through the Piquet industrial zone of Etrelles (Ille-et-Vilaine) observed the PAN at 23h07 on 1 June 2014.

    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, ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014 (part 3)

  21. 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Single witness, a female literature student, reported the observation to gendarmes the day after the sighting.

    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 1988-12-01156, RUES-DES-VIGNES (LES) (59) 16.12.1988

  22. 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case reference DCT/DA/GEIPAN-2011.17930, compte rendu d'enquete dated September 2, 2011 in Toulouse.

    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, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 2)

  23. 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case is classified D1 by GEIPAN: low strangeness but unexplained.

    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 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 8)

  24. 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN received the witness's report by email on 10 September 2012 concerning an observation made on 17 June 2012 in Lambersart (Nord, 59).

    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 Case 2012-06-08317, LAMBERSART (59) 17.06.2012 (part 1)