{
  "slug": "fr-geipan",
  "register": {
    "slug": "fr-geipan",
    "name": "GEIPAN — Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study and Information Group (CNES)",
    "local_name": "Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés",
    "abbr": "GEIPAN",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "France",
    "country_code": "FR",
    "category": "space",
    "agency_type": "study_group",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": "CNES — Centre national d'études spatiales",
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/fr-geipan",
    "website": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
    "reading_room": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "fr-crpa",
      "citation": "CRPA, Livre III (ex-loi n° 78-753 du 17 juillet 1978)",
      "statutory_days": 30,
      "business_days": false,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 60
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
        "label": "Case search and sighting questionnaire",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "The public case base — sightings since 1937, each classified A/B/C/D by residual strangeness after investigation",
      "Witness questionnaires, gendarmerie reports and analysis notes (anonymised)",
      "Predecessor files: GEPAN (1977–88) and SEPRA (1988–2004)"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "A formal request is usually unnecessary — GEIPAN publishes its case base proactively; search it before invoking the CRPA at all.",
      "For what is not published (raw witness identities, defence-classified material), the CADA route applies to CNES as to any French public body."
    ],
    "tracking": null,
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}