An open record of things people cannot explain

Strange accounts from France

2,624 people here wrote down something they could not explain, between 1930s to 2010s.


What people here tend to describe

an orange orb 199a triangle shape 195red lights 179a photograph or recording exists 137aircrew or pilots 128moving in formation 109vanishing suddenly 38police or officials present 36

The accounts

1954-10-02

On October 2 and 4, 1954, several people in the municipality of Poncey-sur-l'Ignon (21) witnessed phenomena that intrigued them. The official report covers two series of distinct events in the same ar…

1980-04-11

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

1984-03---

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

1984-03-05

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

1984-03-02

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

1997-08-15

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases that were classified at the time and that are now being re-examined, with the…

2015-05-31

On May 31, 2015, around 12:50-12:55 AM, two witnesses (T1 driver, T2 passenger to his right) on duty in a van were in the town of Silly-Le-Long (60) and got onto the Nationale 2 expressway heading nor…

1981-11-06

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

1993-08-14

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, with th…

1982-01-17

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, for the…

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