Case file · Government program
GEPAN → SEPRA → GEIPAN (France)
France's space agency CNES has run an official UAP investigation unit in Toulouse since 1977, renamed GEIPAN in 2005.
2005 CE · 43.56, 1.48 · status: official
The account
GEPAN became SEPRA in 1988 with a narrower remit, then GEIPAN in 2005. In 2007 GEIPAN put its case archive online, the first national agency to do so. It grades cases A (explained) to D (unexplained despite good data), and only a few percent stay D.
The sceptical view
Most cases end up explained. Critics on both sides say D cases receive little scientific follow-up.
Connections in the atlas
- Fiery 'craft' over France, 5 November 1990
- The GEIPAN archives
- Minister Robert Galley's UFO interview
- Cussac close encounter
- Nancy amaranth case
- The COMETA report (France)
- Air France flight 3532
- Trans-en-Provence
- France puts its UFO archives online
- GEPAN founded