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The French “Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies” (“GEPAN”) was created in May 1977.
GEPAN became the “Service d’Expertise des Phenomenes de Rentrees Atmospheriques” (“SEPRA”) in 1988.
Sections below:
Web Resources
There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...
The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.
Book References
The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.
Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.
For discussion of GEPAN see the following:
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Alschuler, William in his “The Science of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 147-150 (in Chapter 7) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The UFO Phenomena” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1 (in the Introduction), 73, 81, 86 (in Chapter 6) of the Headline hardback edition. |
4 |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 248, 249 (in Chapter 7) of the Fromm hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 119-121 (in an entry entitled “Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 461-463 of Volume 1:A-K of the Omnigraphics hardback edition in an entry entitled “Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies”. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 1) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 224-225 (in Chapter 18) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition. |
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Francois Louange and Velasco, Jean-Jacques in Peter Sturrock’s “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131-135 (Chapter 20 generally, “The GEPAN/SEPRA Project”) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. The relevant chapter is based on an article by Francois Louange and Velasco, Jean-Jacques in Journal of Scientific Exploration (1998) 12, pages 214-217 and is available online at: http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ufo_reports/sturrock/5.html#A1 |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131-132, 135-136 (in Chapter 6) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 113-114, 119-120 (in Chapter 6) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Lagrange, Pierre in “Alien Worlds : Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact” (2007) (edited by Diana Tumminia) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 180, 181, 183 (in Chapter 9) of the Syracuse University Press softcover edition. |
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Mauge, Claude and Clark, Jerome in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in an entry entitled “French Ufology”) of the Apogee hardback edition. |
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Nixon, Neil in his “Pocket Essentials : UFOs” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 2) of the Pocket Essentials softcover edition. |
1 |
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Noyes, Ralph in his “A Secret Property” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 181 (in the Afterword) of the Quartet hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 258-268 (in Chapter 22 generally) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 62-66 (in Chapter 4) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFOs: The Right to Know”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 182-184 (in Chapter 27) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 288-289 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 210-211 (in Chapter 15) of the Granada paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 2) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Ron Westrum in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) edited by Ronald Story (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 159 (in an entry entitled “Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN)”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Sitchin, Zecharia in his “Genesis Revisited” (1990) at page 289 (in Chapter 12) of the Avon paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1967-1977”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 126 (in an entry entitled “GEPAN”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 143 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 38-39 (in Chapter 1) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer (i.e. Lord Clancarty) in The House of Lords UFO Debate (1979.0118) at column |
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Other Material
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