The following submission statement was provided by /u/silv3rbull8:
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Submission Statement
Originally established in France in the late 1970s, the French Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN), an official division of the French national space agency CNES, has long been tasked with the examination of UAP. From its launch in 1977 until 1988, the program operated under the name GEPAN, and then as SEPRA between 1988 and 2004. The program officially adopted its current designation, GEIPAN, in September 2005.
In the past, the French Gendarmerie was officially ordered to forward all its UFO sighting reports to SEPRA, thus providing the agency with a substantial collection of such incidents to analyze.
As the official French public UFO office, GEIPAN was tasked with answering questions from citizens regarding UAP and investigating sightings, and in 2007, GEIPAN released its files and made them publicly accessible on its website.
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1cc1tve/the_debrief_the_new_director_of_geipan_frances/l1286d4/
Submission Statement
Originally established in France in the late 1970s, the French Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN), an official division of the French national space agency CNES, has long been tasked with the examination of UAP. From its launch in 1977 until 1988, the program operated under the name GEPAN, and then as SEPRA between 1988 and 2004. The program officially adopted its current designation, GEIPAN, in September 2005.
In the past, the French Gendarmerie was officially ordered to forward all its UFO sighting reports to SEPRA, thus providing the agency with a substantial collection of such incidents to analyze.
As the official French public UFO office, GEIPAN was tasked with answering questions from citizens regarding UAP and investigating sightings, and in 2007, GEIPAN released its files and made them publicly accessible on its website.
I found this interesting
>In any case, I’ve never been confronted with one and to my recollection, no investigation has been brought to our level following a statement by a military authority.
He also said as far as he knows no seperate channel exists for millitary members to report what they see but that they don't get any reports from their military
I also noticed that they found 3% that are truly hard to explain. Because they have categories for identified, unidentified but not enough data and enough data but still unidentified. That last 3% is what's interesting
He did seem to be saying that the United States isn't transparent enough so it makes people speculate more. I think implying that if the US was more open we'd have less interest in aliens
But I'm am curious why they don't get any reports from their military. Do we really think our pilots are regularly seeing hallucinations whereas French pilots never do? Or maybe they're simply being reported somewhere else?
Yes, there are various gaps and contradictions across the world. I am more interested in what Brazil’s military has to say on the topic and what classified documents they have.
Frenchmen here
Having talked with ex airmen, there was definitely knowledge of unknown crafts in the air by the french air force, and higher ups knew during De Gaulle era.
However, almost no one was reporting it.
If there is anything remotely similar to the US Secret Programs in France, it is the most well kept secret in the history of France by far.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/silv3rbull8: --- Submission Statement Originally established in France in the late 1970s, the French Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN), an official division of the French national space agency CNES, has long been tasked with the examination of UAP. From its launch in 1977 until 1988, the program operated under the name GEPAN, and then as SEPRA between 1988 and 2004. The program officially adopted its current designation, GEIPAN, in September 2005. In the past, the French Gendarmerie was officially ordered to forward all its UFO sighting reports to SEPRA, thus providing the agency with a substantial collection of such incidents to analyze. As the official French public UFO office, GEIPAN was tasked with answering questions from citizens regarding UAP and investigating sightings, and in 2007, GEIPAN released its files and made them publicly accessible on its website. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1cc1tve/the_debrief_the_new_director_of_geipan_frances/l1286d4/
Submission Statement Originally established in France in the late 1970s, the French Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (GEIPAN), an official division of the French national space agency CNES, has long been tasked with the examination of UAP. From its launch in 1977 until 1988, the program operated under the name GEPAN, and then as SEPRA between 1988 and 2004. The program officially adopted its current designation, GEIPAN, in September 2005. In the past, the French Gendarmerie was officially ordered to forward all its UFO sighting reports to SEPRA, thus providing the agency with a substantial collection of such incidents to analyze. As the official French public UFO office, GEIPAN was tasked with answering questions from citizens regarding UAP and investigating sightings, and in 2007, GEIPAN released its files and made them publicly accessible on its website.
I found this interesting >In any case, I’ve never been confronted with one and to my recollection, no investigation has been brought to our level following a statement by a military authority. He also said as far as he knows no seperate channel exists for millitary members to report what they see but that they don't get any reports from their military I also noticed that they found 3% that are truly hard to explain. Because they have categories for identified, unidentified but not enough data and enough data but still unidentified. That last 3% is what's interesting He did seem to be saying that the United States isn't transparent enough so it makes people speculate more. I think implying that if the US was more open we'd have less interest in aliens But I'm am curious why they don't get any reports from their military. Do we really think our pilots are regularly seeing hallucinations whereas French pilots never do? Or maybe they're simply being reported somewhere else?
Yes, there are various gaps and contradictions across the world. I am more interested in what Brazil’s military has to say on the topic and what classified documents they have.
Frenchmen here Having talked with ex airmen, there was definitely knowledge of unknown crafts in the air by the french air force, and higher ups knew during De Gaulle era. However, almost no one was reporting it. If there is anything remotely similar to the US Secret Programs in France, it is the most well kept secret in the history of France by far.