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French cases and the official GEPAN, SEPRA and GEIPAN investigations. 28 events, newest first.
Close encounters13 Dec 1973
French motor-sport journalist Claude Vorilhon said a small being stepped from a craft that landed in a volcanic crater near Clermont-Ferrand and gave him a message. Renamed Rael, he built a UFO-based religion whose Clonaid company made an unproven 2002 human cloning claim.
Photo: Romary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Close encounters29 Aug 1967
Two children watching cattle in Cantal said they saw four small dark figures and a bright sphere that rose away. Gendarmes visited that day. GEPAN re-investigated in 1978 and called it unexplained; skeptics have argued for a misperceived helicopter.
Photo: Sancta floris, CC BY-SA 4.0
Close encounters1 Jul 1965
A farmer reported a dark craft and two small figures in his lavender field at dawn, and showed ground marks afterward. The gendarmerie took his statements and documented the traces; GEIPAN, with no other witnesses, classes the case unexplained (D).
Photo: Pampuco, CC BY 4.0
