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- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
GEIPAN received the witness questionnaire by postal mail on 29 June 2020, five months after the 13 January 2020 observation; no other witnesses were collected.
GEIPAN field investigation report on case 2020-01-50998: a pre-dawn sighting of three bright red rectangular lights hovering and accelerating over the Crozon peninsula on 13 January 2020, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-01-50998, CROZON (29) 13.01.2020 (part 1)
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Case is classified D1 by GEIPAN and involves a single witness at Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (31) on 8 July 2018.
GEIPAN case report 2018-07-50618 (classification D1) on a 20-second nighttime sighting at Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (Haute-Garonne, France) on 8 July 2018 at 23h30 by a single witness who reported a shape-shifting luminous craft preceded by a meteor-like phase.
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-07-50618, SAINTE-FOY-DE-PEYROLIERES (31) 08.07.2018 (part 1)
- 03PDFGEPAN / CNESp.5
GEPAN's earlier technical notes analyzed witness data; Note No 9 is the first to test a physical model (J.-P. Petit's MHD hypothesis) experimentally.
GEPAN Technical Note No 9 surveys the state of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) worldwide and reports preliminary CNES experiments on MHD action against the bow wave of a cylinder, framed as a probe of J.-P. Petit's model for the silent, abrupt, shock-free motion reported in UAP witness accounts.
→ GEPAN Technical Note 16, Trans-en-Provence Investigation (legacy slug)
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNES
The file is part 3 of GEIPAN case 1989-09-01666, classified D1 (phénomène inexplique).
Part 3 of GEIPAN case 1989-09-01666, an unexplained (D1) sighting of a luminous spinning-top-shaped object stationary above a house roof in Bertre, Tarn, on 4 September 1989, comprising ten annotated Polaroid site photographs.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666, « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989 (part 3)
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Sighting occurred on Friday 29 June 2012 near Maffliers (postal code 95560), with a single witness walking his dog along a field at 06:06 local time, 17 minutes after sunrise.
GEIPAN investigation report on a single-witness sighting of a stationary white luminous object over a wheat field at Maffliers (Val-d'Oise, France) on 29 June 2012 at approximately 06:06 local time, classified D1 (unidentified).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08256, MAFFLIERS (95) 29.06.2012 (part 1)
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.6
Observation occurred 4 January 2010 at approximately 19:45 civil time in Taverny (95150), in a small wood near the médiathèque and new commissariat.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2010-01-02498: a single observer in Taverny (Val-d'Oise) reports a silent dark triangular shape with three pale orange circular lights crossing east to west on 4 January 2010 around 19:45.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-01-02498, TAVERNY (95) 04.01.2010 (part 1)
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation by two gendarmes in a Peugeot 504 patrol car on the A10 between 04:35 and 04:55 on 23 January 1982, beginning near PK 61 in Trancrainville (28) and ending near the Saran-Ormes overpass (45).
GEIPAN re-examination report for case 1982-01-00913: two gendarmes on the A10 autoroute observed a mobile luminous phenomenon illuminating large patches of landscape over roughly 29-32 km between Trancrainville (28) and Ormes (45) on 23 January 1982, classified D (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 1982-01-00913, TRANCRAINVILLE (28) 23.01.1982 (part 1)
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
PV 04462/2012 was drawn up on 2 August 2012 at 18:10 by a gendarme APJ under the supervision of a Maréchal des logis-chef OPJ, citing articles 20, 21-1 and 75 to 78 of the Code de Procédure Pénale.
GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299: a French gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire on the 26 July 2012 observation at Montchaboud (Isère) of a silent vaporous luminous ball with trailing jets, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299, MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012 (part 4)
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation on 16 December 2022 around 21:00 in Hem (Nord, 59), single witness walking his dog, duration roughly 10 seconds.
GEIPAN case 2023-12-51504 (classification D1): a CNES field-investigated report of three reddish toroidal rings in triangle formation, moving silently over Hem (Nord, France) for about ten seconds on 16 December 2022.
→ GEIPAN Case 2023-12-51504, HEM (59) 16.12.2022 (part 1)
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN was contacted by the witness by email on 7 January 2010 and received the completed Questionnaire Terrestre on the 11th; the witness is the sole observer.
GEIPAN case 2010-01-02498: a single-witness sighting at Taverny (95) on 4 January 2010 of a dark triangular craft with three pale yellow-orange disc lights, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-01-02498, TAVERNY (95) 04.01.2010 (part 2)
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Originally classified D, the case was reopened by GEIPAN in a recent re-examination batch and the compte rendu is dated Toulouse, 03/05/2018.
GEIPAN's 2018 re-examination of a 16 March 1980 case at L'Éguille (Charente-Maritime), where three witnesses watched a silent, yellow-orange luminous mass hover near the village cemetery around 00:30 for an estimated 45 minutes before departing.
→ GEIPAN Case 1980-03-00751, EGUILLE (L') (17) 16.03.1980 (part 1)
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Gendarmerie procès-verbal PV 12943/2012 was opened on 1 September 2012 at 10:05 by unit 04395 to transmit the case to GEIPAN.
GEIPAN case 2012-08-08284 (classification D1) collects a French gendarmerie procès-verbal and CNES witness questionnaire on a silent, weaver-shuttle-shaped object seen for five seconds over Volx on the night of 8 August 2012.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-08-08284, VOLX (04) 08.08.2012 (part 2)
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Gendarmerie procès-verbal opened 24 March 2011 at 14:55 at the request of CNES-GEIPAN, P.V. 00779, year 2011, Code Unité 01606.
GEIPAN case 2011-02-02732: French gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire describing a static, flat, triangular green-grey object seen for a few seconds from the A62 motorway between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011.
→ GEIPAN Case 2011-02-02732, [A62] de AGEN (47) vers BORDEAUX (33) 15.02.2011 (part 2)
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Case is GEIPAN 2012-06-08317, classification D1, observed at Lambersart (department 59, Nord) during the night of 16 to 17 June 2012.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire (case 2012-06-08317, classification D1) describing a 15-second observation of 10 to 15 silent, transparent spheres flying south-to-north over Lambersart on 17 June 2012 at 04h00.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08317, LAMBERSART (59) 17.06.2012 (part 2)
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation logged 4 April 2012 at 20h15 in Saint-Lô (Impasse JF Millet, CP 50000), witness aged 50, duration approximately 15 seconds, no other witnesses.
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2012-04-08222: a 50-year-old observer in Saint-Lô reports two yellow-white points crossing the sky on 4 April 2012, one flying straight while the second looped around it for 15 seconds before both entered a cloud.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-04-08222, SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012 (part 3)
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Witness, a 37-year-old chef d'équipe born 07/03/1975, gave a sworn statement to the gendarmerie on 29 June 2012 at 15:50, PV n° 10026/01577/2012.
GEIPAN case 2012-06-08256 (D1) gendarmerie procès-verbal and witness questionnaire for a 29 June 2012 single-witness observation at Mafflieres, France of a luminous, silent object hovering over a wheat field before climbing and departing at fulgurating speed.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08256, MAFFLIERS (95) 29.06.2012 (part 2)
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation occurred at 23h30 on Sunday 8 July 2018 in Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (31470); duration about 20 seconds; one witness with no photo or video.
GEIPAN case file 2018-07-50618 (classification D1) documenting a single-witness sighting on 8 July 2018 at 23h30 in Sainte-Foy-de-Peyrolières (Haute-Garonne, 31), France.
→ GEIPAN Case 2018-07-50618, SAINTE-FOY-DE-PEYROLIERES (31) 08.07.2018 (part 2)
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two on-duty gendarmes on a proximity patrol witnessed the phenomenon at 23:07 on 1 June 2014 in the Zone industrielle du Piquet, Étrelles (35).
GEIPAN case 2014-06-50078: two gendarmes on patrol at the Piquet industrial zone in Étrelles, France, reported a dark stationary mass with two small greenish-white lights overhead on 1 June 2014, which then accelerated east at extreme speed and vanished; classified D1 (inexpliqué).
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078, ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014 (part 4)
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN received the witness call on 20 January 2015 and mandated an investigator on 27 January 2015, who met witness T1 on 28 January 2015.
GEIPAN field investigation of a Saint-Zacharie (Var, France) close-range sighting on 12 January 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-01-09080, SAINT-ZACHARIE (83) 12.01.2015 (part 1)
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Document is a 2018 re-examination compte rendu d'enquête issued by GEIPAN in Toulouse on 04/07/2018, reference DSO/DA//GP, for the case ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993 previously classified D.
GEIPAN's 2018 re-examination of a 15 November 1993 sighting at Ecquevilly (Yvelines), where a lone witness saw a silent circle of variable-color lights pass over his house at 04:30 for 20 to 25 seconds; the case is kept classified D, phénomène inexpliqué.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01335, ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993 (part 1)
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation occurred 21 July 1979, 22:45 to 23:28, at Pranles (Ardèche, France), with the case originally classified D and reopened by GEIPAN.
GEIPAN reinvestigation report (16 January 2019) of a 21 July 1979 nighttime UAP observation at Pranles (Ardèche), France, by four witnesses in two independent groups.
→ GEIPAN Case 1979-07-00644, PRANLES (07) 21.07.1979 (part 1)
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Procès-verbal 2668/1993 of the gendarmerie nationale documents a UAP enquête préliminaire opened after the witness presented himself at the brigade on November 24, 1993.
GEIPAN case file for the November 15, 1993 Ecquevilly (Yvelines) sighting, classified D (unexplained), containing the gendarmerie procès-verbal, witness audition, location sketches, photographs, and the witness's own drawings of a silent circular light formation that hovered then moved over his house at roughly 04:30.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01335, ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993 (part 2)
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observation occurred 21 November 2010 at 17h55, lasting approximately 10 to 15 seconds, from the kitchen window of a 9th-floor apartment in Le Mans (CP 72100).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2010-11-02702: a 67-year-old woman in Le Mans reports a silent dark triangle outlined by three fixed lights (one red, two blue) passing low over her 9th-floor apartment on 21 November 2010 at 17h55.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-11-02702, MANS (LE) (72) 21.11.2010 (part 1)
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two witnesses, a married couple (T1 husband, T2 wife) driving in separate vehicles from Vesoul toward their home in Villers-lès-Luxeuil (Haute-Saône, 70).
GEIPAN classification D1 case file: a couple driving home from Vesoul on 26 November 2019 reports a white light, then a large silent black triangle hovering at low altitude over Villers-lès-Luxeuil.
→ GEIPAN Case 2019-11-50872, VILLERS-LES-LUXEUIL (70) 26.11.2019 (part 2)