GEPAN (1977 founding).
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GEPAN (Groupe d'Etudes des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-identifies) was the first official French government UFO study unit, founded in 1977 within the national space agency CNES in Toulouse. It…
GEPAN (Groupe d'Etudes des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-identifies) was the first official French government UFO study unit, founded in 1977 within the national space agency CNES in Toulouse. It pioneered scientific case investigation, most famously the 1981 Trans-en-Provence physical-trace case. It matters as the institutional ancestor of today's GEIPAN and a model for state-run, scientifically rigorous UAP study; it was renamed SEPRA and later GEIPAN.