GEIPAN, the UAP study group within France's CNES space agency, lists the Valensole report as a class D case and provides a synthesis plus police records.
It supplies the case with a traceable official record, observation details and primary documents rather than relying only on later retellings.
A GEIPAN class D label means the case remains unidentified within that system; it is not a finding of extraterrestrial origin and does not independently prove every witness interpretation.