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On Mar 23, 12:02 pm, "John Lemke" <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote:

France opens secret UFO files covering 59 years

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=3D070322143210.oy201j5u&show_ar.=

France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when
the
national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600
sightings spanning five decades.

The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported,
catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a
handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.
"It is a world first," said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer
who
heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial
phenomena."

Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest
along
with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups
of
findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.

"Cases such as the lady who reported seeing an object that looked like a
flying roll of toilet paper" are clearly not worth investigating, said
Patenet.
But many others involving multiple sightings -- in at least one case
involving thousands of people across France -- and evidence such as burn
marks and radar trackings showing flight patterns or accelerations that
defy
the laws of physics are taken very seriously.

A phalanx of beefy security guards formed a barrier in front of the
space
agency (CNES) headquarters where the announcement was made, "to screen
out
uninvited UFOlogists," an official explained.
Of the 1,600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25 percent are
classified
as "type D", meaning that "despite good or very good data and credible
witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain," Patenet
said.

On January 8, 1981 outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in southern
France,
for example, a man working in a field reported hearing a strange
whistling
sound and seeing a saucer-like object about 2.5 meters (eight feet) in
diameter land in his field about 50 meters (yards) away.

A dull-zinc grey, the saucer took off, he told police, almost
immediately,
leaving burn marks. Investigators took photos, and then collected and
analyzed samples, and to this day no satisfactory explanation has been
made.

The nearly 1,000 witness who said they saw flashing lights in the sky on
November 5, 1990, by contrast, had simply seen a rocket fragment falling
back into earth's atmosphere.

Patenet's answer to questions about evidence of life beyond Earth was
sure
to inflame the suspicions of those convinced the government is holding
back:
"We do not have the least proof that extra-terrestrials are behind the
unexplained phenomena."
But then he added: "Nor do we have the least proof that they aren't."

The CNES fields between 50 and 100 UFO reports ever year, usually
written up
by police. Of these, 10 percent are the object of on-site
investigations,
Patenet said.

Other countries collect data more or less systematically about
unidentified
flying objects, notably in Britain and in the United States, where
information can be requested on a case-by-case basis under the Freedom
of
Information Act.

"But we decided to do it the other way around and made everything
available
to the public," Patenet said.

The aim was to make it easier for scientists and other UFO buffs to
access
the data for research.

The website itself -- which crashed host servers hours after it was
unveiled
due to heavy traffic -- is extremely well organized and complete, even
including scanned copies of police reports.

To visit the website:www.cnes-geipan.fr.

gAZZA will have a field day !!!!!

HOOROO

UNCLE WALLY

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YES, I WILL !! LOL! It's a bold move by the French space agency, and will
undoubtedly give this subject much deserved credibility in the orthodox
scientific field, and among the media =C2=A0and public.
Remember, this isn't evidence of extraterrestrials so much as it is
evidence of an unknown aerial phenomenon that needs rigorous scientific
study, and deserves a serious treatment in the media instead of the
ridicule or tongue-in-cheek 'little green men from Mars' attitude so
commonly expressed.
I've been in ufology for well over 40 years, and this is one of the very
best of several 'breakthroughs' over that long period.
The Chilean AF has been unusually candid about UFOs, too, as has the MoD
of the UK, and Belgium's government. Russia and China have been more open
about the subject than the US.
UFOs are gradually being more accepted as a serious subject that needs
serious study. I've actually lived long enough to see part of my dream
realized, but much more needs to be accomplished by governments and the
scientific community.
When I started back in the 60s, I was laughed at constantly. "Hey, seen
any space people lately?" they'd ask, sneeringly. =C2=A0yuk, yuk...now the
table is turning, and I'm chuckling about the skeptics and ridiculers.
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