Arnaud Saint-Martin is a French MP affiliated with La France Insoumise (LFI). He is the lead organizer of the June 29, 2026 National Assembly symposium on unidentified aerospace phenomena — the first such event in French parliamentary history (src-france-national-assembly-uap-conference-2026-05).
Saint-Martin frames the work as “research into unidentified aerospace phenomena beyond fantasy” and pairs with pierre-henriet (Horizons), vice president of opecst. The symposium has institutional support from cnes and geipan.
June 29, 2026 colloquium
Saint-Martin, trained as a sociologist of science, opened the event by describing the ambivalent public reactions the topic provokes (“we swing between shock and mockery”). He explicitly framed the colloquium’s timing — roughly six weeks after the Pentagon’s ~160-document PURSUE release — as a counterpoint to Donald Trump’s UAP disclosure push, and argued France is “haunted by the American approach”: 89% of worldwide UAP sightings are reported from the US, despite French cases existing too (src-france-assembly-uap-colloquium-recap-2026-06).