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- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Three adult witnesses observed the phenomenon simultaneously in a rural setting in Aunay-les-Bois (61500, Orne) on the night of 2-3 June 2020,...
GEIPAN's standard technical questionnaire submitted by three civilian witnesses describing a silent, two-light bluish aerial phenomenon observed near Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) on the night of 3 June 2020, classified Category D (unidentified) after investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Three adult witnesses observed the phenomenon from a rural garden at Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, 61500) on 3 June 2020, beginning around 00:00-00:30 local...
GEIPAN Classification D witness questionnaire documenting a silent two-light blue-white UAP observed by three adults for 5-10 seconds over rural Normandy on 3 June 2020, with no prosaic identification reached after investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Single civilian witness, naked eye, from a walled residential garden in Ruffec (16700, Charente), with no other witnesses present.
GEIPAN technical questionnaire for case 2022-09-51395: a single civilian witness in Ruffec, France observed a silent white luminous point cycling through appearance and disappearance at ~6-second intervals for roughly five minutes on the evening of 13 September 2022; the case was classified D (unidentified after investigation).
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-09-51395 — RUFFEC (16) 13.09.2022
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three reddish rings arranged in a triangle (one forward, two trailing) appeared suddenly at approximately 21:00 on December 16, 2022, over the...
A GEIPAN-investigated civilian witness report (classification D1: unidentified) of three silent reddish rings in a triangular formation observed for approximately ten seconds over HEM, northern France, on the night of December 16, 2022.
→ GEIPAN Case 2023-12-51504 — HEM (59) 16.12.2022
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Single civilian witness actively scanning the starry sky from a terrace in Volx (04) at approximately 23:00 on 8 August 2012; no other witnesses...
GEIPAN's December 2015 field-investigation report on an August 2012 civilian sighting in Volx, France: a silent, weaver's-shuttle-shaped object crossed the night sky in five seconds on a trajectory that eliminates every conventional explanation the agency could construct, closing as D1 (unidentified phenomenon).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-08-08284 — VOLX (04) 08.08.2012
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Witness T1 first mistook the object for an aircraft with an engine fire, then was arrested by its complete silence and an anomalous flight profile...
A standard GEIPAN witness questionnaire filed by a retired couple from Bornel, Oise, describing a silent triangular UAP with intense orange luminosity that hovered and rotated before disappearing into cloud cover on 24 April 2014.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-04-50829 — BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.9
At 23:15 on May 30, 1989, three game wardens observed three powerful round projectors arranged in a triangular formation emitting simultaneous...
A 12-page GEIPAN/gendarmerie dossier recording a May 30, 1989 sighting near Neuvelle-les-Lure, France, in which three professional game wardens on night patrol observed a silent triangular formation of flashing lights that executed vertical ascent, sawtooth zigzag flight, and apparent electromagnetic correlation with a radio transmission before departing at...
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-05-01176 — NEUVELLE-LES-LURE (LA) (70) 30.05.1989
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Object estimated at a minimum 25–30 meters in diameter but potentially under 1 meter in height — described as enormous and flat.
GEIPAN D1-classified witness questionnaire in which a motorist near Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne, Normandy, reports a massive flat pebble-shaped dark UAP with four red lights hovering at roughly 30 meters altitude before drifting slowly northwest on the night of 29 May 2013.
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459 — MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Single civilian witness: a female literature student driving alone on a departmental road near Cambrai at approximately 23:50 on December 16, 1988.
A French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a December 16, 1988 sighting near Cambrai in which a female student witnessed a silent, disc-shaped object hovering 20 meters above a plowed field, bearing 4 to 6 large underside lights, assigned GEIPAN classification D (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 1988-12-01156 — RUES-DES-VIGNES (LES) (59) 16.12.1988
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Observation ran from 17:31 to 17:58 local time (27 minutes), with one brief interruption when the witness checked the car clock.
A GEIPAN witness questionnaire documenting a single civilian's 27-minute sighting of a stationary, deep-black diffuse sphere over the Fumel aerodrome in Montayral, France on 23 October 2015, classified D1 (unexplained, medium strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-10-09361 — MONTAYRAL (47) 23.10.2015
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Date and time: Sunday 27 March 2022 at 21:30 local summer time; location: Douai (59), Nord, Hauts-de-France.
GEIPAN case 2022-03-51336: a single female witness in Douai, Nord reports a silent equilateral-triangle UAP with colored lights on a straight SE-to-NW heading on the night of 27 March 2022, classified D1 (unexplained after investigation) by CNES/GEIPAN.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-03-51336 — DOUAI (59) 27.03.2022
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.5
Single witness, no corroboration, no photograph or instrument data; observation lasted approximately 15 seconds beginning at 04:00 on 17 June 2012.
GEIPAN investigation report of a June 2012 sighting in Lambersart, France, in which a single witness observed 10–15 silent transparent spheres flying in tight formation at estimated altitude 1,460–2,000 m, with calculated diameters of 49–68 m; classified D1 — unidentified.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08317 — LAMBERSART (59) 17.06.2012
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Single civilian witness — a retired amateur astronomer with no prior interest in UAP — observed a vaporous, silent sphere slightly larger than the...
GEIPAN investigation report classifying a 2012 Montchaboud, France UAP observation by a single civilian witness as D1 (unexplained) after ruling out seven distinct hypothesis categories.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The witness observed a single dark, pebble-shaped object hovering above the Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne cemetery at approximately 23:45 on May 29, 2013,...
GEIPAN's July 2013 investigation report of a single-witness sighting of a large, dark, pebble-shaped UAP with four red lights and a high-pitched hum over a Norman village cemetery, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459 — MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Incident date: 3 May 1997, approximately 01:30. Reported to gendarmerie on 13 May 1997; case formally closed 4 June 1997.
French gendarmerie procès-verbal (PV 00203/97) documenting a GEIPAN Category-D case from 3 May 1997 in which two civilian witnesses in Meilleraye-de-Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, observed a round orange-amber luminous object travel north-to-south over their housing estate at night, with no conventional explanation determined.
→ GEIPAN Case 1997-05-01661 — MEILLERAYE DE BRETAGNE (44) 1997
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
CalSky was queried specifically for Etrelles, France at the reported sighting time of 1 June 2014, 22:50:18 TDT, for a one-hour calculation window.
A CalSky satellite-pass calendar printout queried for Etrelles, France at 22:50:18 CET on 1 June 2014 — investigative support material produced by GEIPAN to test orbital-object hypotheses for case 2014-06-50078, a D1-classified unexplained sighting of a dark aerial mass with two small lights that accelerated suddenly and vanished.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation occurred at approximately 05:00 on August 28, 2014, at Camping Le California near Sainte-Lucie de Porto-Vecchio, Corsica; the witness was...
GEIPAN investigation report classifying the August 28, 2014 Zonza, Corsica observation of a large silent dark circular mass with interior lights and escorted formations as D1 — unexplained, medium-to-high strangeness.
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-08-08968 — ZONZA (2A) 28.08.2014
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation was made at 17h55 on 21 November 2010 from an open 9th-floor kitchen window in the Quartier des Sablons, Le Mans; the witness had lived...
GEIPAN case 2010-11-02702: a single civilian witness in Le Mans observed a low-altitude, matte-black triangular object bearing three fixed lights travel approximately 1.6 km in 15 seconds on 21 November 2010; the case was classified D1 — unexplained, high strangeness — after elimination of all standard hypotheses.
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-11-02702 — MANS (LE) (72) 21.11.2010
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The CalSky lookup is anchored to Montchaboud, France at WGS84 coordinates Lon +5d45m46.4s, Lat +45d05m42.9s, altitude 577 m, on the evening of July...
A CalSky orbital-prediction printout generated by GEIPAN investigators on September 3, 2012, listing every tracked satellite and celestial event visible from Montchaboud, France on the evening of July 26, 2012 — the night of a 6-second UAP sighting at 22h20 local time that GEIPAN classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299 — MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The observation occurred at Rixheim (68170), Alsace, on 26 July 2009 at approximately 23h45 local time, per the annex header — a discrepancy of...
GEIPAN Annex 01 for Case 2009-07-02361: a four-page geographic localization document mapping the Rixheim (68170) observation site relative to two nearby aerodromes and the Basel-Mulhouse international airport.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The witness's residence sits in a suburban (pavillonnaire) zone on the Alsace plain; the nearest mountains — Vosges to the west and the Black Forest...
Geographic localization annex (Annexe 01) for GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361, presenting four annotated aerial views that establish the aviation and terrain context surrounding a UAP observation site in Rixheim, Alsace.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The object was cylindrical, approximately 2 meters long, and hovered stationary at 10 meters altitude when the witness observed it at 10–15 meters...
A 2011 GEIPAN re-examination note covering a 1976 close-encounter report from Isère, France, in which a lone hunter observed a silent 2-meter cylindrical object hovering at 10 meters altitude with a red intermittent glow before departing silently southward; classified PAN D1.
→ GEIPAN Case 1976-11-02763 — SAINT-GEOIRS (38) 25.11.1976
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation time and location: 04:30, 4 September 1989, Bertre (Puylaurens, Tarn 81), France; investigation conducted 12 September 1989.
A SEPRA/GEIPAN investigation report by J.J. Velasco (October 1989) documenting a stationary luminous phenomenon observed above a rural residence in Bertre, Tarn, France at 04:30 on 4 September 1989, with gendarmerie-noted physical traces of heated roof tiles and physical samples collected by helicopter, classified D1 — unexplained pending laboratory...
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666 — « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The celestial chart is set to 23h45 HL on Friday, July 26, 2009, at the witness's home coordinates in Rixheim — approximately 1h25m later than the...
A two-page GEIPAN celestial-chart document reconstructing the July 26, 2009 Rixheim (Alsace) sighting, in which a witness tracked a white luminous point through two distinct flight phases — linear then curved — before it faded into open sky, classified D1 (slightly unusual, remains unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009