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CNES creates GEIPAN to replace SEPRA

Name: CNES creates GEIPAN to replace SEPRA
Start: 2005
Location: Toulouse, France

When: 2005
Where: Toulouse, France
Sources: 3 public sources

Emblem of GEIPAN, the CNES unit created in 2005 to replace SEPRA GEIPAN / Wizly-08, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Following an audit, CNES restructured its UFO service as GEIPAN, adding public information to its mission and placing it under a steering committee with gendarmerie, police, air force and weather service members. The committee first met in September 2005; GEIPAN later put its case archives online.

Sources

OfficialPourquoi la mise en ligne par le CNES de ses archives PAN ? (opens in a new tab)CNES / 2007-03
OfficialFrom the GEPAN to the GEIPAN (Its history) (opens in a new tab)GEIPAN (CNES)
OfficialGEIPAN (opens in a new tab)CNES

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