Jean-Jacques Vélasco

Jean-Jacques Vélasco was a French official investigator who worked on several of the country's best-known cases, first with GEPAN and later as head of SEPRA. 1981. At Trans-en-Provence, he led the site work, where lab results pointed to compression by a mass of about 4 to 5 tonnes and soil heated to between 300 and 600 °C. In 1994, he took up the case of Air France Flight AF3532 over Coulommiers, where a radar track crossed the airliner's path for 50 seconds. He also discussed the 1954 Tananarive mass sighting. With Nicolas Montigiani, he wrote OVNIS l'évidence, which covers the L'Amarante case.

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Tananarive mass sighting and blackout

August 16, 1954 · Avenue de la Libération, Tananarive (Antananarivo)

UAP · Cigar · 27 sources

33Partially documented

Head of SEPRA who discussed the case

Trans-en-Provence Case

January 8, 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var, Provence

UAP · Disc / saucer · 52 sources · 2 photos

48Partially documented

GEPAN investigator who led the site work

L'Amarante: a silent object above a garden in Laxou

October 21, 1982 · Laxou, near Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine

UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources

29Thinly documented

GEPAN, credited in one source as author of Technical Note 17

The French UFO wave of 5 November 1990 (Gorizont 21 re-entry)

November 5, 1990 · Across France, from the Bay of Biscay to Alsace (Gretz-Armainvilliers, Tulle, Dax, Colmar, Mulhouse), also seen from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

UAP · Triangle · 36 sources · 1 photos

54Partially documented

SEPRA, author of the report Un cas remarquable

Air France Flight AF3532, Coulommiers

January 28, 1994 · Airspace near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

37Partially documented

SEPRA/GEIPAN investigator