AudioBlog: Government Funded UFO Study in France

Many countries around the world have active, state funded,
long-term UFO studies. If the United States Congress follows up on
the recommendation in the recently released Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena Task Force report that “additional funding for research
and development could further the future study of the topics laid
out in this report,” the U.S. may soon have one as well. The U.S.
has had two acknowledged, publicly funded UFO investigations in the
past. One was run by the Air Force under the name of “Project Blue
Book” for most of its existence from 1948 until 1969, and the other
by the Pentagon from 2007 until 2012 as the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program. While the 21-year run for the Air
Force investigation may seem substantial, the investigation funded
by the French government has lasted more than twice as long. The
group studying UFOs in France is now operating as Groupe d’Etude et
Information des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés or
GEIPAN. The group was first called Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes
Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, or GEPAN, when it was started in 1977,
and then Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée Atmérique,
or SEPRA from 1988 to 2004. GEIPAN operates as part of the French
Space Agency, Centre National d’Études Spatiales, or
CNES. Read more