The screen of the French special forces hunting disc

Every year the world has thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs, known as flying saucers), but not many countries are willing to spend money investigating this kind of information like France.

You don't need a time machine when visiting the headquarters of the French Space Center in Toulouse, because it makes people feel like they're in the 1970s. The buildings here are stylish. like the time of the former Soviet Union, it showed little signs of life, even though it still contained 1,500 people inside.

Make as much clarity as possible about flying saucers

France currently has the largest aviation and space agency in Europe. This was a result of the space race in the 1960s and from the great ambition of President Charles de Gaulle, in helping France become independent of the United States in studying space when satellite-making, the system Private rocket launcher .

One consequence of all of this is that France is also the only country in Europe that maintains a flying disc research agency, operating full-time. He and Denmark also had similar agencies, but they were shut down a few years ago due to budget cuts.

Flying saucers appear in Marseille sky is actually just a mirror image of a light bulb in a car

The French flying saucer research unit has 4 employees and about 10 volunteers, who are paid to go to the field to check reports about seeing the flying saucer. This flying disc hunters team is called Geipan , the acronym for Group Research and information on unspecified aeronautical phenomena.

The boss of the group is Xavier Passot. He said his mission and his colleagues were to be as transparent as possible when investigating and explaining the findings of flying saucers reported to the team.

The Geipan team publishes the survey results on their website, attracting about 30,000 readers per month. The group receives an average of 2 reports about flying saucers every day. Reports are only accepted if a detailed 11-page profile is created according to the available form.

This is not only to ensure that the reporters provide detailed information, including photos of flying saucers, but also significantly limit those who like to tease and waste their time.

There are still hundreds of inexplicable cases

Once the application is accepted, investigation will proceed. If someone claims to have seen a strange light in the sky, the Geipan team will go online to see if the observation site is on a strange route.

An illustration of a flying saucer in 1979

The team can trace the air traffic activity, within 1 week before that time. The team also had access to the flight route of military aircraft, besides being able to communicate regularly with the French air force and air traffic control agencies.

Sometimes if a team member feels that the photos sent are like a harassment plot, or some witnesses report a similar phenomenon, they will invite the police to come. The police will be responsible for clarifying whether the witnesses are credible or not. They may even ask the witness of the witness to see the night of the flying saucer, do they go out to drink or use drugs.

The BBC said the photos, evidence sent to the Geipan team showed many impressive scenes. A picture, taken by a car passenger, shows a bright circle floating above Marseille. But the Geipan team has determined that this circle is actually just a picture of a small light bulb in the car, reflected on the car's glass. The photographer sat in the car, recording Marseille from the back of the glass and accidentally obtained the impressive flying disc scene above.

In fact, the Geipan team can explain almost every phenomenon of flying saucers. You may be surprised if the sky lights are released in parties held all night as "culprits" that many people think flying saucers visit Earth. Balloons and kites hovering in the sky are often mistaken for spacecraft coming from other planets. Finally, the meteorite pieces that burn and emit strange light when entering the Earth's atmosphere.

However, there are still about 400 cases of flying saucers detected since the 1970s, which the Geipan team cannot explain. The most mysterious case involving a flying saucer landed near the Aix-en-Provence area in 1981. The Geipan team took this case seriously because the flying saucer left a trail of landing and the incident was much witnesses. However, after a long period of investigation, they still could not explain what caused the anomalies.