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Stories26 · page 1

Mexican Congress "Nazca non-human bodies" hearing

September 12, 2023 · Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro, Mexico City

UAP · Being / humanoid · 55 sources

31Partially documented

The Crozon Sighting: Three Red Rectangles in the Storm (2020)

January 13, 2020 · Crozon, Crozon peninsula, Finistère, Brittany

UAP · Rectangle · 7 sources

10Thinly documented

Chilean Navy / CEFAA Infrared Video

November 11, 2014 · Off the coast west of Santiago, between San Antonio and Quintero, Valparaíso Region

UAP · Other · 35 sources · 1 photos

35Partially documented

Police and gendarmes see a luminous disc over the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur

September 18, 1998 · Seine estuary, between Le Havre and Honfleur, Normandy

UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources

22Thinly documented

The Fontiès-d'Aude Silent "Helicopter" with Light Beams

c. 1995 · Fontiès-d'Aude (also filed as Trèbes), Aude, near Carcassonne

UAP · Other · 9 sources

15Thinly documented

The La Ferté-sous-Jouarre gendarme triangle over the A4 at Ussy-sur-Marne

June 24, 1994 · A4 motorway near Ussy-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France

UAP · Triangle · 17 sources

32Partially documented

Air France Flight AF3532, Coulommiers

January 28, 1994 · Airspace near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

37Partially documented

The Ecquevilly Ring of Lights

November 15, 1993 · Ecquevilly, Yvelines, Île-de-France

UAP · Other · 8 sources

13Thinly documented

The French UFO wave of 5 November 1990 (Gorizont 21 re-entry)

November 5, 1990 · Across France, from the Bay of Biscay to Alsace (Gretz-Armainvilliers, Tulle, Dax, Colmar, Mulhouse), also seen from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

UAP · Triangle · 36 sources · 1 photos

54Partially documented

The Ploërmel Gendarmes' Cigar

July 22, 1985 · Ploërmel and Campénéac, Morbihan, Brittany

UAP · Cigar · 18 sources

30Partially documented

The Guipavas Airport Fireball: Brest-Guipavas, 1981

November 22, 1981 · Brest-Guipavas aerodrome (now Brest Bretagne Airport), Guipavas, Finistère, Brittany

UAP · Sphere · 8 sources

44Partially documented

Trans-en-Provence Case

January 8, 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var, Provence

UAP · Disc / saucer · 52 sources · 2 photos

48Partially documented

The Vaucresson police officers' rotating "plate"

January 1, 1981 · Near Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France

UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources

24Thinly documented

The Authon-du-Perche gendarmes' sighting (GEIPAN file first named Nogent-le-Rotrou), 1980

March 10, 1980 · Authon-du-Perche, Eure-et-Loir, Perche region (arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou)

UAP · Rectangle · 13 sources

33Partially documented

Sion-les-Mines: The Car Swallowed by an Orange Ball

December 4, 1979 · Crossroads between Ruffigné and Sion-les-Mines, Loire-Atlantique

UAP · Sphere · 11 sources

24Thinly documented

The Cergy-Pontoise Abduction: Franck Fontaine Vanishes for a Week

November 26, 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise

UAP · Sphere · 23 sources

22Thinly documented

The Maubeuge Roadside Light ("La voiture illuminée")

September 23, 1979 · Maubeuge, Nord, Hauts-de-France

UAP · Unknown · 12 sources

20Thinly documented

Houetteville landing and ground traces

August 13, 1977 · Houetteville, near Louviers, Eure, Normandy

UAP · Egg · 16 sources

30Partially documented

The Voreppe Luminous Disc (GEPAN case 76305443)

November 5, 1976 · Near Voreppe, Isère, on the road to Grenoble (reports along a line to Clermont-Ferrand)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources

34Partially documented

Thuir Domed Oval, Pyrénées-Orientales (1976)

March 25, 1976 · CD48 departmental road between Thuir and Camelas, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie

UAP · Egg · 12 sources

25Thinly documented

Names6

GEIPAN Organisation · 33 stories
France's official UFO office sits inside the space agency CNES.
CNES Organisation · 21 stories
France's national space agency.
Trans-en-Provence Event · 5 stories
A small commune in the Var, in south-eastern France.
Coulommiers Place · 3 stories
A town area in Seine-et-Marne, about 70 km east of Paris.
Nancy Place · 3 stories
A city in Lorraine, in eastern France.
Pierre De Baudouin Person · 3 stories
A journalist at France 3 Paris Île-de-France.

Documents12 · see all

Note technique n° 9 Document

CNES / GEIPAN
Gendarmerie procès-verbal, Trans-en-Provence 1981 Document

Gendarmerie / GEIPAN· 1981
L'observation de Valensole 1965, cinquante ans après… Document

GEIPAN / CNES· 2015
PV n°600 Document

GEIPAN (CNES)· 5 pages

PROC& - V E R B A L N A T U R E P R C C I…
Gendarmerie report PV n°445 Report

Gendarmerie nationale via GEIPAN· 1965· 18 pages

65305974 FM : REGION GENDARM MARSEILLE TO : DIRGENDARM PARIS N° 223/2.II - SYNTHESE JOURNALIERE - SITUATION EN 9 RM…
Sky Canada Project report (PDF) Report

Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Government of Canada· 2025· 30 pages· 8 pages mention it
- p. 19 …By ano- nymizing sightings, GEIPAN allows further study of observed phenomena by external scientific teams. The principles guiding GEIPAN include…
- p. 23 …National Defence (DND) • Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) • GEIPAN (France) • Library and Archives Canada (LAC) • Meteorological Service of Canada…

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Videos2

Un OVNI aperçu dans le sud de la France, enquête du GEIPAN

From Trans-en-Provence Case

Du GEPAN au GEIPAN (avec Pierre Lagrange et Jacques Patenet)

From L'Amarante: a silent object above a garden in Laxou