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France National Assembly UAP Colloquium: Preliminary Program and Context

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Summary

UAP Check’s editorial board provides the full preliminary program and speaker biographies for the June 29, 2026 French National Assembly parliamentary colloquium titled La recherche sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés au-delà des fantasmes (“UAP Research Beyond Fantasy”), co-organized by MPs arnaud-saint-martin (LFI) and pierre-henriet (Horizons, opecst First Vice-President). The event — structured as three roundtables covering history, geipan/military official work, and international comparisons — carries institutional support from geipan and cnes, and includes speakers from the French Air and Space Force, cnes, ESA, and French academia. The article situates the colloquium within France’s unique 49-year institutional UAP history (GEPAN 1977 → SEPRA 1988 → geipan 2005) and contrasts the French civilian/space-agency model with the U.S. national-security model exemplified by aaro. This is the first detailed program-level reporting on the event, extending the earlier announcement in src-france-national-assembly-uap-conference-2026-05.

Key Claims

  • The June 29, 2026 colloquium will be held at Salle Victor-Hugo inside the French National Assembly, running approximately 15:10–18:40.
  • France has maintained a public-facing UAP investigation structure within its national space agency continuously since 1977 — unique worldwide.
  • The three roundtables cover: (1) UAP research history and contemporary issues; (2) official work by geipan and the French Air and Space Force; (3) comparison of geipan and the Pentagon / aaro and responses from public authorities.
  • geipan current director frederic-courtade (since 2024) will represent the agency at Roundtable 2; air-defense body capcoda will be represented by Mathieu Courtaban.
  • Data scientist michael-vaillant — a GEIPAN expert for ~20 years and founder of uap-check — is a speaker in Roundtable 2.
  • philippe-ailleris (ESA Senior Project Controller) will appear in Roundtable 3, connecting the discussion to international reporting standards.
  • baptiste-friscourt (Sentinel News / The Debrief correspondent) is a Roundtable 3 speaker.
  • opecst held drone-over-nuclear-facilities hearings in November 2014, cited as parliamentary precedent for addressing unidentified aerial events.
  • French Air and Space Force engineer luc-dini, president of the 3af-sigma2 technical commission on UAP hard observables, will speak in Roundtable 1.

Notable Quotes

“The aim is to show that these phenomena can be worked on rationally and to highlight the work of experts, rather than cultivate the impression that hidden secrets are being withheld.” — Pierre Henriet (via LCP)

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