GEIPAN French Case Archive, 1990–2009

Record summary

France’s CNES investigation system—first SEPRA and later GEIPAN—preserves reports collected across the 1990–2009 period. The archive includes ordinary sightings, aircraft-related observations, photographs and cases classified with varying levels of explanation. It is valuable for cross-border comparison because case summaries record dates, places, evidence and investigative conclusions in a relatively standardized institutional framework. It should not be treated as a catalogue of unexplained craft: many entries are explained, weakly documented or explicitly unresolved only because evidence is insufficient.