French CNES / GEIPAN National UAP Archive Launch (2007)

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

  Scope of the Archive

At 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

  The Classification System

GEIPAN'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

  Publication Rationale

CNES 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

  References

  References

1. Rapport 2006–2007 du comité de pilotage du GEIPAN, GEIPAN, section 4. ↩ ↩²

2. Le GEIPAN ouvre ses dossiers, CNES. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Réduction des fonctionnalités du site: classification des cas, GEIPAN, April 5, 2007. ↩