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- 01PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.6
On 27 September 1954 around 20h30 three children (boy 12, girls 8 and 4) at a Prémanon, Jura farm separately reported seeing a rectangular aluminum-colored object about two meters tall by one meter wide, partially split vertically, with two outward-angled supports at its base.
French gendarmerie procès-verbaux on the 27 September 1954 Prémanon (Jura) sighting in which three children reported a rectangular aluminum-colored craft, with a follow-up report documenting a 3.50 m / 2.50 m ground ring and four trapezoidal indentations.
→ GEIPAN Case 1954-09-09112, PREMANON (39) 27.09.1954
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation occurred on 21 November 2010 at 17h55 from the 9th-floor kitchen window of the witness's apartment in the Sablons district of Le Mans.
GEIPAN compte rendu d'enquête for case 2010-11-02702 documenting a 15-second observation in Le Mans on 21 November 2010 of three lights (one red, two blue) bounding a dark triangular form, classified D1 (inexpliqué).
→ GEIPAN Case 2010-11-02702, MANS (LE) (72) 21.11.2010 (part 2)
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Observer site fixed at Montchaboud, France: longitude +5d45m46.4s, latitude +45d05m42.9s, altitude 577 m (WGS84).
A CalSky celestial-calendar printout for Montchaboud, France on 26 July 2012, attached to GEIPAN case 2012-07-08299 as a satellite-pass cross-check for a witness's 22h20 sighting.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-07-08299, MONTCHABOUD (38) 26.07.2012 (part 1)
- 04PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Observation occurred on 11 April 1953 at 21:10 local time over Limoges-Romanet (Haute-Vienne).
GEIPAN case 1953-04-00005: a French Air Force captain at Limoges-Romanet's Depot 603 reported a silent red-orange point making a 45-degree east-west-east traverse of the sky on 11 April 1953, witnessed by three personnel and transmitted up the Air Ministry chain.
→ GEIPAN Case 1953-04-00005, LIMOGES (87) 11.04.1953
- 05PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN classifies the case D and locates it at Sélestat (Bas-Rhin, 67) on 30 October 1994, around 01:45.
GEIPAN case file 1994-10-01377 (classification D): a witness's gendarmerie statement and hand-drawn sketch describing a luminous circle-within-triangle object that paced a car near Sélestat, Bas-Rhin, on 30 October 1994.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-10-01377, SELESTAT (67) 30.10.1994 (part 2)
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Annex 01 documents the Rixheim (68170) observation of Friday 26-07-2009 around 23h45 local time.
GEIPAN annex 01 for case 2009-07-02361 mapping the Rixheim (68) 26 July 2009 sighting location relative to Basel-Mulhouse airport and the Habsheim aerodrome.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 11)
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Witness is a technician in applied research with self-described training in physics and amateur knowledge of meteorology, aeronautics, astronautics and astronomy.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361: a Rixheim resident's gendarmerie deposition describing a white point of light that, after tracking like a satellite, executed a westward turn and accelerated overhead on 26 July 2009.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 12)
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Annex 01 documents the geographic location for an observation at Rixheim (68170) on Friday 26-07-2009 around 23h45 local time.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361 (classification D1) Annex 01: geographic-location maps for a Rixheim, Alsace witness who saw a white point of light move south-to-north for 7-8 seconds on 26 July 2009.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 5)
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Procès-verbal opened under code unité 07790, P.V. 01368, year 2009, by an MDL/C at the local gendarmerie brigade and routed up to the Direction générale de la Gendarmerie Nationale and the Préfet du Haut-Rhin.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361 documents a Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) witness's gendarmerie deposition describing a white point of light that flew south-to-north like a satellite, then turned west and accelerated overhead on the night of 26 July 2009.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 6)
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Single-witness sighting by a motorist on autoroute A62 between Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, 47) and Bordeaux (Gironde, 33).
GEIPAN case file 2011-02-02732 documents a brief daytime sighting reported by a motorist on the A62 autoroute between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2011-02-02732, [A62] de AGEN (47) vers BORDEAUX (33) 15.02.2011 (part 1)
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Sighting occurred 25 March 1976 around 14h30 near Thuir (66), with three witnesses traveling together by car.
GEIPAN re-examination note for case 1976-03-00292, a 25 March 1976 daytime sighting near Thuir (Pyrénées-Orientales) of an oval luminous craft topped by a dome, retained at classification D1 (unexplained, low consistency, marked strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 1976-03-00292, THUIR (66) 25.03.1976 (part 1)
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Satellite map locates the observation point and the measurement point along the D972/N174/Boulevard de Strasbourg corridor in Saint-Lô.
GEIPAN case file 2012-04-08222 (part 2) documenting a 4 April 2012 sighting at Saint-Lô (Manche, France) of two luminous points moving east-to-north, classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-04-08222, SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012 (part 2)
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The observation occurred on 25 November 1976 around 07h10 near Saint-Etienne-de-Geoirs (Isère, dept. 38), reported by a single farmer-hunter.
GEIPAN 2011 re-examination of a 25 November 1976 close encounter at Saint-Etienne-de-Geoirs, classified PAN D1 (unexplained, low consistency, high strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 1976-11-02763, SAINT-GEOIRS (38) 25.11.1976 (part 1)
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation occurred at Bertre (Puylaurens, Tarn 81) on 4 September 1989 at 04:30; SEPRA enquiry conducted 12 September 1989.
GEIPAN/SEPRA enquiry report (3 October 1989) on a 4 September 1989 observation at Bertre (Tarn) of a stationary luminous object above a witness's roof, with reported heat-marked tiles and physical samples taken.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666, « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989 (part 1)
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation site fixed at latitude 47°44'40.52" North, longitude 7°24'38.74" East, altitude 239 m.
GEIPAN case 2009-07-02361 (classification D1) documenting a 7-8 second observation of a white point of light maneuvering over Rixheim, France on 26 July 2009.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 3)
- 16PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation site fixed at Rixheim (68170) with precise coordinates: 47°44'40.52" N, 7°24'38.74" E, altitude 239 m.
GEIPAN case file 2009-07-02361 reconstructs a 26 July 2009 sighting at Rixheim (Haut-Rhin, France) of a white point of light that moved S-N then curved, classified D1 (unexplained but low strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361, RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009 (part 9)
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
PV n° 14671/00726/2013, audition taken 11 June 2013 at 14h55 by an Adjudant / Officier de Police Judiciaire of the Gendarmerie Nationale.
Gendarmerie witness audition for GEIPAN case 2013-05-08459: a plumber describes a dark pebble-shaped object with red lights and a high-pitched buzz hovering over the Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne cemetery at 23h45 on 29 May 2013.
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459, MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013 (part 3)
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN case reference 2022-05-51350, location MONTLUEL (Ain, department 01), date 14 May 2022.
GEIPAN case file 2022-05-51350 (classification D), a two-page elevation-profile annex supplementing the witness report for a silent rectangular dark object observed over Montluel (Ain), France, on 14 May 2022.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-05-51350, MONTLUEL (01) 14.05.2022 (part 1)
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Diagram labels the observed phenomenon, its trajectory, and the treeline horizon used as the witnesses' reference for elevation.
GEIPAN case file 2020-06-51034 (classification D) documenting an unidentified nocturnal observation of two bluish lights crossing silently in a straight line over Aunay-les-Bois, Orne, on 3 June 2020.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034, AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020 (part 2)
- 20PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
GEIPAN questionnaire standard V3.5-juin-2013, submitted for an observation on 24 April 2014 in Bornel (department 60, Oise).
GEIPAN witness questionnaire for case 2014-04-50829, documenting a retired couple's 24 April 2014 sighting in Bornel (Oise) of a silent triangular object with a steady orange light, ultimately classified D1 (unexplained, average strangeness).
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-04-50829, BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014 (part 2)
- 21PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Incident occurred during the night of 2-3 March 1989; gendarmes were notified at 0900 on 3 March 1989.
GEIPAN case 1989-03-01170 documents a gendarmerie investigation into a red fireball sighted near Mayet (Sarthe) on the night of 2-3 March 1989, with reported electromagnetic effects on a witness's car.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-03-01170, MAYET (72) 03.03.1989
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Sighting date and place: 11 November 1963, around 15-16h, on a small paved farm path on the territory of Premesques (Nord) between Lille and Armentieres.
GEIPAN case 1963-11-01791 (D1, inexpliqué moyennement consistant): a Premesques, Nord France sighting on 11 November 1963 around 15-16h of a stationary orange luminous ball that oscillated, then accelerated silently across the cloud base, witnessed by a father (55) and his two sons (18 and 13) and reported to GEIPAN in April 2008.
→ GEIPAN Case 1963-11-01791, PREMESQUES (59) 11.11.1963 (part 2)
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Case identifier 1954-10-09217 with GEIPAN classification D (strange to very strange, medium to strong consistency).
GEIPAN case file 1954-10-09217 (classification D) documenting a luminous aerial phenomenon observed by military personnel at a radar station near Doullens (Somme, France) on 19 October 1954.
→ GEIPAN Case 1954-10-09217, DOULLENS (80) 19.10.1954 (part 1)
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
GEIPAN classified the case D (non identifié après enquête), the agency's category for cases that remain unexplained after investigation.
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 (classification D, unidentified after investigation) documents three witnesses observing a silent, straight-line nighttime passage of two bluish lights over Aunay-les-Bois (Orne, France) between 00h and 01h on 3 June 2020.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034, AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020 (part 3)