Organization · 1977
GEIPAN (CNES, France)
Also known as GEIPAN, GEPAN, SEPRA, Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés
GEIPAN is the French space agency CNES's office for unidentified aerospace phenomena. It began in 1977 as GEPAN, was renamed SEPRA in the late 1980s, and became GEIPAN in 2005. It collects reports from the public, the gendarmerie, the Air Force and civil aviation, investigates them, and publishes its case files and classifications online.
Sources: GEIPAN (CNES)
Facts and claims
- documented GEIPAN, the Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés, is the UAP office of the French space agency CNES. It publishes its case files online with a classification from A (fully identified) to D (unexplained after investigation). Source: GEIPAN case file: « AF3532 » Coulommiers, 28 January 1994
Connected files
Documents
- GEIPAN case file: « AF3532 » Coulommiers, 28 January 1994 (published)
- French Air Ministry file on the Orange-Caritat sighting, 15 June 1951 (GEIPAN case 1951-06-00002) (published)
- GEIPAN case file: Trans-en-Provence, 8 January 1981 (GEPAN Technical Note 16) (published)
Incidents
- Gendarmes on the A10 motorway follow a light that lit up the landscape (investigated)
- Air France flight 3532 sighting (investigated)
- Soldiers at the Doullens radar station watch a disc hover under the clouds (investigated)
- Évreux air base: duty officer and tower staff see a red light, with a radar echo (investigated)
- Two cyclists see a landed object take off near Harponville (investigated)
- Aircraft flight engineer watches a domed object near Basel, with a radar echo (investigated)
- Three witnesses follow a bright orange mass for 45 minutes near Royan (investigated)
- Car stalls and its lights die as a fireball passes, Mayet (investigated)
- Mirage IV patrol briefly followed by an unknown aircraft near Nancy (investigated)
- Three game wardens on night patrol watch lights zigzag at great speed (investigated)
- Orange-Caritat Vampire pilots' sighting (France, 1951) (investigated)
- Ship’s captain and second officer watch a light manoeuvre over Port-Gentil (investigated)
- A scientist and his neighbours watch a stationary light sweep the ground with a blue beam (investigated)
- Trans-en-Provence landing trace (France, 1981) (investigated)
- Valensole landing: a craft and two small beings in a lavender field (investigated)
People
- Frédéric Courtade (staff)
- Jean-Claude Ribes (members)
Videos
- Citizen Hearing 2013: A Global Phenomenon, Part 1 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: A Global Phenomenon, Part 2 (discussed in)
- Citizen Hearing 2013: Truth, Lies & the Cover-up, Part 1 (discussed in)
- “Valensole 1965”: INA on the French close encounter, with GEIPAN's head Frédéric Courtade (discussed in)
- Renato Nicolaï and the Trans-en-Provence plant analyses (documentary excerpt) (discussed in)