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123 findings
- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNES
The UAP was independently confirmed by radar, elevating the case above purely visual witness testimony.
GEIPAN classification-D1 investigation report covering a January 1994 radar-confirmed UAP encounter by an Air France Airbus A320-11 crew near Coulommiers, France, marked unexplained with high strangeness due to instantaneous disappearance.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345 — « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Air France flight AF3532, an Airbus A320-11 on the Nice-London route, was overflying Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne, 77) at 13:14 on 28 January 1994...
A GEIPAN investigation of a UAP observed by the crew of Air France flight AF3532 over Coulommiers on 28 January 1994, independently confirmed on ATC radar and classified D1 — unexplained, markedly anomalous — after the object vanished instantaneously.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345 — « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNES
The encounter occurred at 13h14 local time on 28 January 1994 over Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne, 77), placing it within controlled French airspace...
GEIPAN case 1994-01-01345 is the official French investigation file for a January 28, 1994 UAP encounter by an Air France A320 crew over Coulommiers, corroborated by radar and classified D1 (unexplained, marked strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345 — « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Air France flight AF3532, an Airbus A320-11 on the Nice-to-London route, was the platform from which the phenomenon was observed.
GEIPAN case 1994-01-01345: on 28 January 1994 at 13:14, the crew of Air France flight AF3532 (A320-11, Nice-London) observed an unidentified phenomenon near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, subsequently confirmed by ground radar before the object disappeared instantaneously — classified D1 (unexplained, marked strangeness) by CNES/GEIPAN.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345 — « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Single civilian witness observed a white luminous point cycling through appearance and disappearance at approximately 6-second intervals for about 5...
GEIPAN's formal investigation of a Classification D UAP — a cyclically appearing and disappearing white luminous point observed over Ruffec, France on September 13, 2022 — which remained unidentified after systematic elimination of four candidate explanations.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-09-51395 — RUFFEC (16) 13.09.2022
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation occurred at approximately 19h45 local civil time on 4 January 2010, in a small wood adjacent to the new Taverny police station, roughly...
GEIPAN case 2010-01-02498 (classification D1 — unexplained): a 52-year-old aviation enthusiast reports a large, dark, delta-wing shaped object with three pale orange lights traversing Taverny, France, east to west in 10–15 seconds on the evening of 4 January 2010.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-01-02498 — TAVERNY (95) 04.01.2010
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two on-duty gendarmes observed the phenomenon from approximately 04:35 to 04:55 on 23 January 1982 while traveling south on the A10 motorway near...
A 2018 GEIPAN re-examination of a 1982 French case in which two gendarmes on highway patrol observed an undefined aerial mass illuminating ground, pylons, and farm buildings across approximately 29 km along the A10 motorway near Orléans — a phenomenon that retains its original D (unexplained) classification.
→ GEIPAN Case 1982-01-00913 — TRANCRAINVILLE (28) 23.01.1982
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Single civilian witness, 82 years old, observed from a south-facing balcony on Chemin du Cray, Montchaboud (38220).
GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299 is a French civilian eyewitness questionnaire documenting a silent, vaporous sphere transiting south-to-north over Montchaboud, Isere, on 26 July 2012 at 22:20 for 3-6 seconds; rated D1 (unexplained) by CNES's UAP unit.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three identical reddish-orange, toroidal (3-D torus, not flat-ring) luminous objects in an isosceles triangle formation, point forward in the...
GEIPAN official investigation report (classification D1, ref. DTN_DA_GP-2024.0012609) on a single civilian's December 2022 sighting of three silent, reddish toroidal rings in triangular formation over HEM, Nord, France — unidentified after a full remote and on-site inquiry.
→ GEIPAN Case 2023-12-51504 — HEM (59) 16.12.2022
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The witness is a self-described aviation enthusiast who had just watched a fully illuminated A330 pass at ~1,500 feet; he compared the UAP directly...
GEIPAN investigation report classifying a January 2010 single-witness observation of a large, silent, triangular dark object with three amber circular lights over Taverny, Val-d'Oise, as a D1 unexplained phenomenon.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-01-02498 — TAVERNY (95) 04.01.2010
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Three witnesses at separate positions (200-300 m apart) all confirmed a silent yellow-orange luminous mass near the cemetery of L'Eguille (17) on 16...
A 2018 GEIPAN re-examination of a March 1980 case in which three civilian witnesses near L'Eguille, Charente-Maritime, observed a silent yellow-orange luminous mass hovering near a cemetery for approximately 45 minutes before departing obliquely at very high speed.
→ GEIPAN Case 1980-03-00751 — EGUILLE (L') (17) 16.03.1980
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Single witness, age 38 at the time, lying on a terrace in Volx (04130); no other witnesses.
GEIPAN case 2012-08-08284: a single French civilian witness reports a 5-second silent overflight of a weaver's-shuttle-shaped, green-brown UAP over Volx, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on the night of 8 August 2012, documented via the agency's standard individual questionnaire.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-08-08284 — VOLX (04) 08.08.2012
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Single civilian witness — a woman driving to work — observed the phenomenon between 07:20 and 07:40 on December 10, 2018; field investigators did not...
GEIPAN's formal investigation report on a December 2018 night sighting of a silent, bicolored luminous bar near La Forêt-Fouesnant, Brittany, classified D1 (unexplained) after all conventional hypotheses fell below 50% probability.
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-12-50686 — FORET-FOUESNANT (LA) (29) 10.12.2018
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Object described as triangular with three rounded corners, rather flat, and greenish in color (between gray and green); it appeared stationary...
GEIPAN standard-questionnaire case file for a February 2011 motorist sighting of a static, flat, rounded-triangle greenish object over the A62 highway between Agen and Bordeaux, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2011-02-02732 — [A62] de AGEN (47) vers BORDEAUX (33) 15.02.2011
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Observation date and time: night of 16–17 June 2012, 04:00, Lambersart, Nord (59), France.
A 51-year-old civilian witness in Lambersart, France submits a GEIPAN standard questionnaire describing a 15-second silent overflight of 10–15 transparent spheres flying south-to-north in tight formation at 04:00 on 17 June 2012; GEIPAN classified the case D1 (strange unidentified).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08317 — LAMBERSART (59) 17.06.2012
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Single witness; no photograph, no video, no physical evidence. Duration approximately 20 seconds. The witness submitted graphic reconstructions of...
GEIPAN D1 case 2018-07-50618: a single civilian witness in Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières, France, describes a ~20-second, five-phase nocturnal sighting on July 8, 2018 — involving multiple ultra-bright simultaneous points, a shape-shifting rectangular-to-triangular dark object, and a silent acceleration with no sonic boom.
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-07-50618 — SAINTE-FOY-DE-PEYROLIERES (31) 08.07.2018
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Both witnesses were Gendarmerie officers on official government patrol duty at the time of observation, lending institutional credibility to the...
A GEIPAN/CNES case file compiling two gendarmerie procès-verbaux and a standardized witness questionnaire documenting a dark, silent aerial mass with two faint greenish lights that hovered stationary for under two seconds over a French industrial zone before accelerating eastward at extreme velocity and vanishing — classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The UAP closed to within approximately 3 meters of the witness and passed through a 6-meter gap between two mobile homes without disturbing the...
GEIPAN's official investigation report for case 2015-01-09080: a single-witness, close-proximity observation of a silent oval UAP in Saint-Zacharie (Var), France on 12 January 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness) after all conventional hypotheses were assessed at below 30% probability.
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-01-09080 — SAINT-ZACHARIE (83) 12.01.2015
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation on 15 November 1993 at approximately 04:30 by a single civilian woken by barking dogs; before locating the lights, the witness observed...
A 2018 GEIPAN re-examination of a 1993 Classification D case: a single civilian in Ecquevilly, Yvelines, witnessed a silent circular array of multi-colored lights hover then pass over his farmhouse at 04:30; no conventional hypothesis exceeds 30% investigator confidence.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01335 — ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Four witnesses in two independent groups, at separate rural domiciles, observed the same phenomenon simultaneously on the night of 21 July 1979; one...
A 2019 GEIPAN re-examination of a July 1979 case from Pranles, Ardeche, France, in which four witnesses in two independent groups observed a stationary yellow-orange ovoid luminous source projecting a blue rotating beam through a full 360-degree sweep for approximately 43 minutes.
→ GEIPAN Case 1979-07-00644 — PRANLES (07) 21.07.1979
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Observation lasted approximately 1 minute 30 seconds between 07h35 and 07h45 local time in complete darkness on December 10, 2018.
A GEIPAN D1-classified witness questionnaire documenting a single observer's 90-second nighttime encounter with a silent rectangular yellow-and-green luminous bar near La Forêt-Fouesnant, Finistère, on December 10, 2018, including a reported post-observation radio malfunction.
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-12-50686 — FORET-FOUESNANT (LA) (29) 10.12.2018
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
A single civilian witness (T1) observed the phenomenon for approximately 2–3 minutes starting at ~22:15 local time on 28 January 2014 at latitude...
GEIPAN investigative report (classification D1 — unexplained) documenting a single civilian witness's 2–3 minute observation of a silent, bright red luminous sphere with a short reddish-blue tail that performed a complex low-altitude trajectory — including a sustained hover and sudden violent departure — in They-sous-Montfort, Vosges, France, on 28 January...
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-01-08689 — THEY-SOUS-MONTFORT (88) 28.01.2014
- 23PDFGEIPAN / 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
- 24PDFGEIPAN / 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