Case file · Official inquiry
France puts its UFO archives online
In 2007 GEIPAN, the UAP unit of the French space agency CNES in Toulouse, made its case archive public.
2007 CE · 43.56, 1.48 · status: official
The account
France has studied UAP inside its space agency since GEPAN was founded in 1977. GEIPAN's mandate is to investigate reports and make its findings available to the public, and in 2007 it opened its archive. Each published case carries a classification, from explained to unexplained after investigation, making France one of the most open governments on the subject.
The sceptical view
Openness cuts both ways: the published files show how often ordinary causes such as aircraft, balloons and astronomical objects explain reports.
Connections in the atlas
- The GEIPAN archives
- The COMETA report (France)
- Trans-en-Provence
- GEPAN → SEPRA → GEIPAN (France)
- GEPAN founded