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GEPAN reports its first findings to its scientific council

When: Jun 1978
Where: Toulouse, France
Sources: 2 public sources

The French space agency CNES, which set up GEPAN in 1977 Edal Anton Lefterov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

France's CNES UFO study group GEPAN, overseen by a council of senior scientists, presented its first results from 1977-1978 case inquiries in a June 1978 report to that council. CNES later said the findings showed cases worth further study; founding head Claude Poher left in October 1978.

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OfficialLe GEPAN : pourquoi ? comment ? (opens in a new tab)CNES (hosted by GEIPAN)
OtherClaude Poher (cites GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, June 1978) (opens in a new tab)Patrick Gross, UFOs at close sight

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