Organized by UAP Afrique, in partnership notably with SCEAU and the avant-garde encyclopedia Orbs, l’autre Planète, publisher of the issue Orbs Special Contact, this event will explore how Africa, Asia, and the emerging powers are, in turn, addressing the question of unidentified aerial phenomena.
Since 2017, revelations have followed one another in the United States: authenticated military videos, parliamentary hearings, Pentagon reports, the creation of AARO, and testimonies from pilots and intelligence officials… An undeniable disclosure dynamic has begun. But behind the promised openness, one fact remains clear: it is still the US authorities that select the documents, set the timetable, define the terminology, and determine the boundaries of the debate.
By constantly looking toward Washington, did we forget the rest of the sky?
Observations have nevertheless been recorded on every continent. Brazil possesses extensive declassified military archives. Russia and the former Soviet Union have studied phenomena reported around strategic sites. China has its own scientific and military aerial-surveillance networks. India, Indonesia, Egypt, and South Africa have also faced observations that their histories, cultures, and sovereignty imperatives have led them to interpret differently. As for the African continent, it remains largely absent from major international overviews, as though the experiences of entire populations did not deserve to become part of the global UAP record.
It is precisely this imbalance that the symposium “UFOs, BRICS and Geopolitics” seeks to examine. Not to artificially pit a Southern bloc against a Western bloc, nor to replace one state secret with another, but to restore the phenomenon to its true dimension: planetary, multipolar, and transcultural. The question is no longer merely what passes through our airspace. It is also a matter of determining who collects the data, who preserves it, who shares it—and who claims the power to construct its narrative.
From Nuclear Issues to African Policies
The day will begin with Stéphane Royer, co-author with Didier Gomez of the book UFOs and Nuclear Power: Are We Under Surveillance? His presentation will examine the links between UFO observations and nuclear facilities in BRICS countries. This is a particularly sensitive subject, at the crossroads of safety, intelligence, and national sovereignty. The reported incursions around power plants, bases, silos, or research facilities do not concern only the United States or France: in reality, they raise questions for all nuclear powers. “Those who say that they are not interested in the UFO phenomenon are lying because, at one point or another, the highest military or political circles take an interest in it,” observes the former organizer of the Paris UFO Dinners.
Marie-Angélique Thuillier, an artist, clinical psychologist, witness to the 1990 wave of sightings, and a member notably of UAP Check and SCEAU, will then present three portraits of emblematic women ufologists in BRICS countries. “Investigators, authors, and publishers, some of them created research centers and formed their own teams.” It is a way of bringing visibility to women researchers who have too often been erased from a history of ufology that is still told through a few major Western male figures.
After the lunch break, Paola Garijo, a writer, traveler, and collector of ufological archives, will offer a retrospective devoted to Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia. This region constitutes a remarkable crossroads of narratives, spiritual traditions, military experiences, and contemporary observations. It will also provide an opportunity to create a link “between the observations and the people, because ufology is, above all, a human adventure, a connection with human beings,” Paola Garijo emphasizes.
At 3:00 p.m., journalist and founder of the JMTV+ YouTube channel Jacky Moiffo, together with Charles-Maxence Layet, a science journalist, former parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament, founder of the avant-garde encyclopedia Orbs, l’autre Planète, and author of The UFO Spring, will take part in a roundtable devoted to African governments and the UAP question. Which states collect testimonies? Which administrations have alert or investigative procedures? What becomes of observations made by pilots, military personnel, airport staff, or civilian populations? And, above all, how can African cooperation be built without depending exclusively on Western analytical frameworks, databases, and strategic priorities?
“The question of ufology is a pivotal issue of the twenty-first century. It is no coincidence that the supposedly great nations are taking an interest in it and are even competing with one another,” Jacky Moiffo says. “When the major geopolitical issues of this world are discussed, the African question tends to be overlooked, as though Africa were merely a small point somewhere on the planet. Bringing the question of ufology back to the motherland of humanity inevitably touched me,” remarks the Cameroonian-born journalist. He further adds: “The continent that, in less than fifty years, will be the most populous in the world cannot remain on the sidelines. On the contrary, it must be at the forefront.”
Bringing Africa into the Global Conversation
The final presentation will look back at the UAP Afrique adventure, with its co-founder Jann Halexander. Created at the end of 2023, this network seeks to document African observations, collect testimonies, and enable a voice specific to the continent to emerge. Since then, articles, interviews, programs, exhibitions, and publications have helped unearth forgotten cases and explore their historical and cultural dimensions.
Africa is clearly not a blank page in the history of UFOs. The collective sighting at Ariel School in Zimbabwe in 1994 remains one of the most famous cases in the world. But how many other events remain confined to local memories because of a lack of investigators, accessible archives, or media coverage? How many accounts have been neglected because they used the language of ancestral traditions rather than that of aeronautics or military intelligence?
In its own way, the Massy symposium will continue the momentum initiated on June 29, 2026, at the French National Assembly, where researchers, military personnel, GEIPAN officials, sociologists, and journalists addressed unidentified aerospace phenomena beyond fantasy and speculation. But it will go one step further: decentering the debate, multiplying points of view, and reminding us that no state, no military, and no cultural sphere can claim sole possession of the keys to the phenomenon.
For behind UFOs, a major political question is now taking shape. If some observations correspond to unknown technologies, who will be able to study them and master their applications? If they reveal a natural phenomenon that is not yet understood, how should international research be organized? And if a non-human intelligence truly manifests itself, on what grounds should its recognition be administered by a handful of military powers?
The sky does not belong to the Pentagon. Nor does it belong to the BRICS. It is a shared space, observed by humanity as a whole. But all its voices must finally be allowed to be heard.
Practical Information
Symposium “UFOs, BRICS and Geopolitics”
Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.—doors open at 9:00 a.m.
Station Atlante, 20 rue Ampère, 91300 Massy, France
RER B and C: Massy-Palaiseau
Program subject to change.
