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  1. 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Incident dated 7 September 1954 around 07:30 between Harponville and Contay (Somme), reported in Gendarmerie report N° 785/2 dated the same day from Amiens.

    French Gendarmerie report no. 785/2 from Amiens documents two cyclists' 7 September 1954 observation of a grey cylindrical object roughly 10 metres in diameter and 2.5-3 metres tall, sitting in a field between Harponville and Contay before lifting off silently with blue smoke.

    → GEIPAN Case 1954-09-00008, [CD47] DE HARPONVILLE (80) VERS CONTAY (80) 07.09.1954 (part 1)

  2. 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Two witnesses cycling on C.D. 47 between Harponville and Contay observed a cylindrical object resting in a field at 7:30 a.m. on 7 September 1954.

    French Gendarmerie reports from September 1954 documenting two cyclists' close-range observation of a grey cylindrical object resting in a field between Harponville and Contay, which lifted off silently at oblique then vertical trajectory emitting blue smoke.

    → GEIPAN Case 1954-09-00008, [CD47] DE HARPONVILLE (80) VERS CONTAY (80) 07.09.1954 (part 2)

  3. 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Two masons on bicycles on the C.G. 47 between Harponville and Contay reported the object around 7:30 on 7 September 1954.

    French Gendarmerie Nationale report and witness depositions on a September 7, 1954 close-range observation of a circular landed object between Harponville and Contay (Somme), investigated by GEIPAN as case 1954-09-00008.

    → GEIPAN Case 1954-09-00008, [CD47] DE HARPONVILLE (80) VERS CONTAY (80) 07.09.1954 (part 3)

  4. 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3

    Procès-verbal No. 755 was opened on 9 September 1990 at 21h30 by Inspecteur Principal D. G, Officier de Police Judiciaire, after intervention by sous-Brigadiers C. E. and D. A.

    French national police procès-verbal No. 755, transmitted to GEPAN at the Toulouse space center, documenting multi-night ovoid-with-red-and-green-lights sightings over Longuenesse (Pas-de-Calais) on 8, 9, 11 September and mid-October 1990, observed by witness L. B. and corroborated by a Police Nationale patrol.

    → GEIPAN Case 1990-09-01214, LONGUENESSE (62) 08.09.1990

  5. 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case classification D1: unexplained, moderately strange, of good consistency.

    GEIPAN case 2008-07-02443 (D1, unexplained, moderately strange): a CNES 'Appel aux astronomes amateurs' cover document plus the witness compte rendu for an ovoid point of light observed on 8 July 2008 at 21h25 local time from Montagne de Bergiès (Barret-de-Lioure, Drôme) through a 9x50 finder scope.

    → GEIPAN Case 2008-07-02443, BARRET-DE-LIOURE (26) 08.07.2008 (part 2)

  6. 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2

    Observer site fixed at Etrelles, France: WGS84 longitude 1d11m38.85s W, latitude 48d03m36.44s N, altitude 140 m.

    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 Case 2014-06-50078, ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014 (part 2)

  7. 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Observation occurred 28 August 2014 around 05:00 local at the 'Le California' campground in Zonza (Corse-du-Sud), with a 10-minute duration reported by a single witness.

    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 Case 2014-08-08968, ZONZA (2A) 28.08.2014 (part 2)

  8. 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Procès-verbal N°1544/94 opened as a preliminary inquiry under reference B.E. N°25400 DEF/Gend/O.E/D.O of 28 September 1992 on the study of the UFO phenomenon.

    GEIPAN case 1994-06-01360: three French gendarmes on night patrol near Ussy-sur-Marne report a stationary triangular object with three yellow-white lights over the A4 motorway bridge on 24 June 1994.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-06-01360, USSY-SUR-MARNE (77) 24.06.1994

  9. 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Procès-verbal d'audition opened 30 October 1994 at 15h10 at the brigade office, recording witness A. D, a sector manager of French nationality.

    Gendarmerie procès-verbal 727/94 documenting a couple's 30 October 1994 sighting near Sélestat of a luminous triangle-and-circle craft that paced their car for roughly 25 minutes before departing across the fields.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-10-01377, SELESTAT (67) 30.10.1994 (part 1)

  10. 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN was contacted by Monsieur A by email on July 13 2008 about an ovoid object observed the evening of Tuesday July 8 2008; the witness's description was consistent enough that GEIPAN dispatched an investigator (IPN) on site.

    GEIPAN's November 20 2012 enquête report on a July 8 2008 sighting from Mont Bergiès (Drôme) by two amateur astronomers who tracked an ovoid object through a 9x50 finder scope, classified D1 (unexplained, moderately strange, good consistency).

    → GEIPAN Case 2008-07-02443, BARRET-DE-LIOURE (26) 08.07.2008 (part 1)

  11. 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Observation date and time: 26 July 2012 at 22h20 local, witness on a balcony in Montchaboud (Isère, dept. 38).

    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, MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012 (part 3)

  12. 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3

    The S/S LE VERDON was at anchor in the roadstead of Port-Gentil, Gabon at 02:40 on 1 June 1952, swinging on a heading of 150.

    French Navy transmission of a S/S "LE VERDON" captain's report describing a luminous orange circular object observed over Port-Gentil, Gabon at 02:40 on 1 June 1952, which stopped, turned right, and resumed course twice before passing over the anchored ship.

    → GEIPAN Case 1952-06-00004, PORT-GENTIL (GA.8) 01.06.1952

  13. 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN case 1994-01-01345 classified D1: unexplained, moderately consistent, with a marked strangeness character; aircraft crossing a phenomenon confirmed by radar control with instantaneous disappearance.

    Météo-France technical note prepared for GEIPAN ruling out the Trappes 12 UTC radiosonde as the explanation for the unexplained phenomenon observed by Air France flight AF 3532 over Coulommiers on 28 January 1994.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 1)

  14. 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN head Yvan Blanc opened the radar-trace request under the CNES/DGAC protocole d'accord, then under update by DGAC's David Comby.

    GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361, classification D1: a 7-to-8 second linear south-to-north light over Rixheim on 26 July 2009 that ELVIRA multi-radar replay could not corroborate.

    → GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 1)

  15. 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    INCA event sheet from organism LFSB (Bâle-Mulhouse ATC), processing state 'terminé', dated 21/09/2009 for an event timestamped 26/07/09 21:46 UTC in the LFSB TMA.

    GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361: a French civil aviation (DGAC/LFSB Bâle-Mulhouse) ATC incident file responding to the CNES/GEIPAN radar-trace request for the Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) 26 July 2009 sighting, with METAR data and a confirmation that multiradar review found no track over Rixheim.

    → GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 7)

  16. 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Document is a CODA (Centre Opérationnel de Défense Aérienne) chronology of information received on January 28 1994, transmitted November 1 1995 at 16:06.

    French Air Force CODA chronology of the January 28 1994 Air France AFR 3532 Airbus encounter over Coulommiers, in which a three-person cockpit crew tracked an unidentified object for one minute at flight level 370.

    → GEIPAN Case 1994-01-01345, « AF3532 » [AERO AFR] COULOMMIERS (77) 28.01.1994 (part 3)

  17. 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Annex 04 to GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361 documents a satellite-correlation analysis for an observation at Rixheim (68170) on Sunday 26-07-2009 around 23h45 local time, authored by G. Munsch (IPN/GEIPAN).

    GEIPAN annex computing whether Cosmos 1151 Rocket could account for phase 1 of a white-point sighting over Rixheim on 26 July 2009.

    → GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 10)

  18. 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Annex prepared by G. Munsch of IPN for GEIPAN documenting the Rixheim observation on 26 July 2009 at approximately 23h45 local time.

    GEIPAN annex computing whether Cosmos 1151 Rocket could account for the first phase of a luminous-point sighting at Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) on 26 July 2009.

    → GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 4)

  19. 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Case is logged as GEIPAN 2014-06-50078, classification D1 (unexplained), location ETRELLES (35), date 01.06.2014.

    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 Case 2014-06-50078, ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014 (part 1)

  20. 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    GEIPAN/CNES case file is procès-verbal N° 745/1976, registered at the Gendarmerie's regional command on 14 December 1976 under N° 016639.

    Gendarmerie procès-verbal N° 745/1976 documenting a farmer's close-range sighting of a cylindrical luminous object near Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (Isère) on 25 November 1976, classified D1 (unexplained) by GEIPAN.

    → GEIPAN Case 1976-11-02763, SAINT-GEOIRS (38) 25.11.1976 (part 2)

  21. 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.7

    Three national hunting wardens on night surveillance against poaching near Neuvelle-les-Lure observed three round projectors flashing in triangle formation overhead at 23h15 on 30 May 1989.

    GEIPAN case 1989-05-01176 (classification D): gendarmerie procès-verbaux and federation correspondence on a 30 May 1989 sighting near Neuvelle-les-Lure (Haute-Saône) by three national hunting wardens of three flashing projectors performing silent zigzag maneuvers and vertical ascent.

    → GEIPAN Case 1989-05-01176, NEUVELLE-LES-LURE (LA) (70) 30.05.1989

  22. 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.6

    Gendarmerie message 81072/M dated 9 September 1989 reports a square luminous patch 10 m by 10 m in a field below the witness's home and, above the house, a very bright spinning-top-shaped object 3 m high by 3 m wide visible for 30 seconds.

    Gendarmerie procès-verbal 599/89 and SEPRA follow-up on a 4 September 1989 sighting at Bertre (Tarn), where retiree F. A. reported a luminous spinning-top object stationed above his roof, leaving discolored, displaced tiles and a sagged ridge.

    → GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666, « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989 (part 4)

  23. 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    The daily synthesis telex from Marseille to DIRGENDARM Paris on 5 July 1965 records the event at lieu-dit OLIVOL, 2 km northwest of Valensole, with the farmer aged 41 declaring he saw a 'soucoupe volante' the size of a Dauphine with two passengers.

    GEIPAN case 1965-07-00050: French gendarmerie procès-verbaux documenting the Valensole, Basses-Alpes close-encounter and landing-trace report by a lavender farmer on 1 July 1965, classified D (unidentified) by CNES's UAP unit.

    → GEIPAN Case 1965-07-00050, VALENSOLE (04) 01.07.1965 (part 2)

  24. 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1

    Witness is a 68-year-old retired commercial director from Toulouse, two months into occupying a house at Bertre between Puylaurens and Cuq-Toulza in the Tarn.

    GEIPAN/SEPRA case 1989-09-01666 (part 2): three French news clippings from September 1989 covering the Bertre (Tarn) observation of a stationary luminous object above a retiree's roof, with discoloured and lifted tiles documented by CNES investigators.

    → GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666, « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989 (part 2)