Posted on 12/30/2006 8:54:59 AM PST by Pharmboy
An undated image of a UFO. The French space agency is to
publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online,
but will keep the names of those who reported them
off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.
(Handout/Reuters)
The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.
Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Center (CNES), said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February.
He said the CNES had been collecting statements and documents for almost 30 years to archive and study them.
"Often they are made to the Gendarmerie, which provides an official witness statement ... and some come from airline pilots," he said by telephone.
Given the success of films about visitations from outer space like "E.T.," "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" and "Independence Day," the CNES archive is likely to prove a hit.
It consists of around 6,000 reports, many relating to the same incident, filed by the public and airline professionals. Their names would not be published to protect their privacy, Anould said.
Advances in technology over the past three decades had prompted the decision to put the archive online, he said, adding it would likely be available via the CNES website www.cnes.fr.
X files in french.
If E.T. had landed in France, they would have surrendered by now!
Looks like that UFO came from the planet Frisbee.
LOL...now that you mention it, I think I can even see a logo in the middle.
The whole subject is really interesting ever since I had a sighting myself.
......protect them from pestering by space fanatics. Aliens!!
Unidentified Frog Overhead
A small European satellite began its mission Wednesday to peer into the blinding light of nearby stars in an attempt to discover the first rocky planets outside our solar system.
The craft was launched at 1423 GMT (9:23 a.m. EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket and attached Fregat upper stage successfully deployed the COROT spacecraft into orbit about 50 minutes after liftoff.
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Coast was making fun of this. That's too bad. French science is catching up and may have already surpassed American science. Hydrinos! N-rays! Who is laughing now?
What a clever way to raise revenue from all the moonbat clicks!
"Verrry interesting."
Just keep laughing. I used to think the whole ufo thing was funny too. Start doing a little reading: John Mack, Jacques Vallee, Donald Keyhole, Jenny Randle (well, maybe not Jenny Randle), if you look into it you'll find a hardcore five percent of cases can in no way be explained.
Pilots, Doctors, lawyers, teachers, priests, people of all kinds and stripes have seen incredible things, some of which have been tracked on radar.
At least two Apollo austronauts have come out for their reality (Gordon Cooper, Ed Mitchell).
I'm telling ya', there's something out there that ain't us and seems very interested in us.
The U.S. Air Force stands by its claims that there are no UFOs. However, it will also publish its files just to spite the uppity French.
I wonder if the French have surrendered to the UFO's yet?
Meadoiw Muffin
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The aliens like French food a lot! And the French have just discovered that it is "le Cookbook!"
The whole subject is really interesting ever since I had a sighting myself.
Where/when was that?
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