{"type":"documents","slug":"2007-french-cnes-geipan-national-uap-archive","title":"French CNES / GEIPAN National UAP Archive Launch (2007)","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2007-french-cnes-geipan-national-uap-archive","description":"In March 2007, CNES and GEIPAN published the French national UAP investigation archive online, covering cases dating back to 1977.","date":"2007-03-22T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Case File"],"updated":"2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z","disclosureRating":8,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"On March 22, 2007, the French space agency CNES opened GEIPAN's public archive website.[^1] GEIPAN's steering committee described the online publication as a transparency measure and reported that preparing the archive required digitizing and anonymizing more than 100,000 pages.[^1]\n\n## Scope of the Archive\n\nAt launch, CNES described the GEIPAN holdings as roughly 1,600 cases assembled across 30 years of collection and field investigations.[^2] The archive included gendarmerie records, expert reports, witness sketches, and audio and video material.[^2]\n\n## The Classification System\n\nGEIPAN's 2007 guidance grouped cases into four categories: A for observations explained without ambiguity, B for observations with a very probable explanation, C for observations that could not be analyzed because information was lacking, and D for observations that remained unexplained with the available evidence.[^3]\n\n## Publication Rationale\n\nCNES said the release was intended to make public information central to GEIPAN's work and to draw scientific attention to cases that remained unexplained.[^2]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Rapport 2006–2007 du comité de pilotage du GEIPAN](https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/Rapport_2006_2007_du_comite_de_pilotage.pdf), GEIPAN, section 4.\n\n[^2]: [Le GEIPAN ouvre ses dossiers](https://cnes.fr/actualites/geipan-ouvre-dossiers), CNES.\n\n[^3]: [Réduction des fonctionnalités du site: classification des cas](https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/actualites/reduction-des-fonctionnalites-du-site), GEIPAN, April 5, 2007.","readingTime":"1 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/2007-french-cnes-geipan-national-uap-archive","title":"French CNES / GEIPAN National UAP Archive Launch (2007)","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/2007-french-cnes-geipan-national-uap-archive","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}