France Puts UFO Documents Online

[JaJae]

SPACE.com -- French Space Agency Releases Secret UFO Archive Online

French Space Agency Releases Secret UFO Archive Online
By Angela Doland
Associated Press Writer
posted: 23 March 2007
11:46 a.m. ET

PARIS (AP) – France's space agency is opening up its secret “X-Files'' – three decades of research into UFO sightings, including police reports, witness sketches and maps that scientists used to search for logical explanations behind mysterious phenomena in the skies.

The first batch of archives went up on the agency's Web site Thursday, and the pages have had so much traffic that the site has been tough to access since.

Only about 9 percent of France's UFO cases have ever been fully explained, the group says, while experts have found likely reasons for another 33 percent of cases.

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The agency, known by its French initials CNES, said it went public with the documents to draw the scientific community's attention to unexplained cases – and because their secrecy generated buzz, with many people suspicious that officials were hiding something.

Jacques Patenet, the director of the agency's UFO cell, said everything in the archive would be published online, with the exception of psychological reports about witnesses as well as their names.

“The public sector needs an official group that can take these phenomena into account and, in most cases, respond to public observations,'' Patenet said. “The great danger would be to leave the field open to sects and charlatans.''

The archive contains about 100,000 documents from those cases – including expert reports, drawings by witnesses and some audio and video files.

Starting in 1977, French space agency researchers tried, usually with limited funding and staff, to explain reports of unidentified flying objects. Many cases were easy – the objects were simply unusual clouds or space debris falling back into the atmosphere, the CNES said.

Other cases were impossible to crack. The most baffling cases were labeled “Class D aerospace phenomena'' – which the agency defines as “inexplicable despite precise testimonies and the (good) quality of material information gathered.'' Some 28 percent of the agency's files fall into the category.

Most of the time, Patenet said, witnesses were sincere about what they saw.

“Very few of them were looking for publicity, as most of them feared most of all that they would not be taken seriously,'' he said. Still, there were frauds.

In 1979, in Cergy-Pontoise outside Paris, a man showed up at a police station claiming that his friend had been abducted by a UFO – a bright light that appeared on the road and swallowed up his car. Several days later, the man purportedly reappeared in a field, emerging out of a sphere of light.

Investigators went so far as to test the man's blood for signs that he had recently experienced weightlessness – and they found none. The group labeled it a hoax.

Some cases took years to unravel. In 1985, two farmers near the Atlantic coastal city of Royan saw a burning object drop into a field nearby.

Experts initially concluded that it was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. Eventually they realized it was a piece of leftover German World War II ordnance that spontaneously exploded four decades after the war and launched into the sky, the agency said.

Among the unexplained cases, one of the most perplexing concerned a 1994 Air France flight. While flying over the Paris region, the airplane's crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering in the horizon and constantly changing shape. The case “has never been explained to this day, and leaves the door open to all possible hypotheses,'' the agency wrote.

Click here to visit the French Space Agency Website's English version (French page is here).

I just figured some people on here would like this. Here's the website in English:
Cnes - CNES-EN

[Roonie]

I saw this....... that is awesome. I think it is crazy to think we are the only life in the galaxy. With billions upon billions of other galaxies out there it would be pretty arrogant to think we are the only ones around. Just a matter of time before we do an official meet and greet with another life form. Maybe or maybe not in my lifetime. Cool if we do, as long as they are friendly!

[curlyque221]

this is pretty cool. I have always been slightly fascinated by UFOs and alien life.

[Nonphixion]

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[BigRob]

Sample of French UFO document:



Oct 23 11:31 pm

Jeanne and Jasque report seeing a object 100 meters in diameter hovering approximatly 200 meters from the ground

Oct 23 11:32 pm

Jeanne and Jasque retreat.

[motivez]

Jeanne and Jasque retreat

[6SpeedTA95]

I find UFO's and extraterrestrial encounters to be very interesting.

1) Most UFO's can be explained by natural and man made phenomenon. Much of what was cited in the late 70s to early 80s as we know now was the stealth bomber/fighter in testing. Which means what are we testing now? What have we been testing for quite sometime? Aurora project anyone???

2) I find many alien encounters and abduction encounters to be very strange. The HUGE majority of cases involve individuals who are abducted and taken away by "the grey's", the rather skinny humanoids with big black eyes. Why do I find this wierd? After tons of research on the subject it appears to be nothing more than the subconscious playing tricks on us. The fact that these aliens are humanoid at all is strange and a great deal of thsi can be attributed to the human mind and what we know as intelligent life.



There's been many articles and books written on this. I do not find intelligent life outside earth impossible given the size of the universe but the fact that things are so perfect here to support life and the fact that many scientist agree our environment is nearly perfect lead me to believe that while intelligent life may exist the fact of this intelligent life contacting and visiting earth seems unlikely at best. And a near impossibility in reality.

[Nonphixion]

Originally Posted by BigRob

Sample of French UFO document:



Oct 23 11:31 pm

Jeanne and Jasque report seeing a object 100 meters in diameter hovering approximatly 200 meters from the ground

Oct 23 11:32 pm

Jeanne and Jasque retreat.

Here are some excerpts;

(Note these are slightly abridged translations)

1. Royan 1985

Two farmers saw a cylindrical metallic object 20 in. in length fall out of the sky and land less than 50 yards from them. They immediately called the local police and a nearby airbase, and once the object had sufficiently cooled it was taken to the airbase for examination.

Initial inquiries could not identify the object, which was not part of a French or foreign missile, and there were no corresponding launch activities...further inquiries with NORAD uncovered that a COSMOS 1629 satellite launch had probably led to pieces of the missile re-entering earth's atmosphere on or about the 25th Feb., the day of the incident, and the object was tentatively identified as a part of the 4th stage of that booster rocket.

Further study of the object indicated that it had suffered from prolonged exposure to humidity, and that it bore Nazi markings! It thus was evident that the object was no space debris but a WWII-era explosive that had spontaneously ignited. etc...

The inquiry, which lasted some 5 years, is a model of the genre, because of its evolution and its successive reappraisals.

2. Cergy Pontoise 1979

On the 26th Nov 1979, at about 5 am, a man informed the local police that his friend "had been abducted by a UFO."

3 witnesses claimed to have seen a light over the highway and one took his car to investigate it. The light enveloped the car in a sphere of fog, and when it and the light both dissipated, the friend was found missing from the auto.

From the very beginning, discrepancies appeared in the testimony, which only grew in proportion to the witnesses' interest in media appearances.

On the 3rd Dec, the friend suddenly reappeared in a field from another luminous cloud.

The witnesses's conflicting testimony and their thirst for media attention immediately indicated the incident was a fraud, confirmed by a blood test of the "abductee," whose blood showed no signs of altitude-induced thinning.

3. Cussac 1967

The Cussac case occurred 11 years before the formation of GEPAN, but its importance as a possible "close encounter of the third kind" led GEPAN to open an investigation into an incident that remains one of the most amazing encounters ever to have occurred in France.

On the 29th August, 1967, a boy of 13 and his 9-year-old sister were guarding a herd of cows in fields near their village. Suddenly some 80 yards away in the neighboring field, the boy saw 4 black humanoids approximately 4 feet tall which he initially took for children. The beings stood beside a spherical craft set in the field. the boy cried to his sister, "Look, there are some black children!" The two watched the remarkable beings move through the air and enter the top of the sphere headfirst. Simultaneously, the sphere lifted off and the last being, who had picked something off the ground, caught up with the sphere as it cleared the tree line.

The sphere rose silently in a widening spiral from 4 to 6 diameters wide before rapidly disappearing with a whistle. As it rose, the sphere became more and more luminous, until it was blinding, and left a sharp sulphrous odor in its wake. The frightened children returned home in tears and their father immediately called the local police. Upon arrival, the officers noted the odor of burnt sulpher and the dried out grass at the claimed landing site. The shepherd, who had not seen the craft, said he had also heard the whistle and had smelled the sulpher lingering until evening.

11 years later, GEPAN's investigation proved that the testimonies given were perfectly coherent with those given in 1967, and measures of theodelite (in the soil) indicated the sphere was approximately 5 yards in diameter. The duration of the whistle was independently corroborated by all 3 witnesses, who also selected the same (suphrous) odor from a series of samples.

To this day, no rational explanation has been found to explain the remarkable encounter between these children and these strange beings, about which we cannot deny their intelligent actions or their possession of a technology unknown to us.

4. Trans-en-Provence 1981 (one of the most famous French cases)

On 8 January, a man is working in his vegetable garden when a whistle draws his attention to a descending craft. The craft lands some 30 to 70 yards below him with a loud noise and departs almost immediately afterward, rising almost vertically and speeding rapidly out of sight. The witness noticed three circular pads beneath the craft, which was a dull metallic zinc color and emitted neither flame nor smoke, and was about 10 feet long by 6 ft high. It was circular, with a thick band around its diameter. The incident lasted 30 to 40 seconds.

The witness found a circular spot about 7 feet in diameter at the landing site.

The local police interviewed the witness the next day, examined and photographed the landing site, and took soil and alfalfa samples in progressive steps from the center of the site.

GEPAN sent the samples to 4 labs for tests, each using different techniques, and their results were complementary. The synthesis of the results showed serious soil compaction, indicating the presence of a heavy object which left residues of iron, iron oxides, and zinc phosphates. A significant heating nearing 600 degrees C was also recorded.

The alphalfa samples showed multiple injuries to the plants diminishing from the center of the site. The cause of these injuries cannot be determined but the effects of an electro-magnetic field have been hypothesized.

There is no doubt that a phenomenon of great importance occurred on that day, and that the reality of the observation is highly probable.

5. Air France Flight 1994

The 28th Jan, 1994. The sky is perfectly cloudless and the plane is flying at 11,000 meters at 650 km/hr.

Over greater Paris, the chief steward signals the captain of the Airbus A300 linking Nice and London that he believes a weather balloon is to the plane's left.

The pilot and copilot view the object in turn and agree that it is nothing known to them. It is a large red-brown disc that is constantly changing shape and is estimated to be 500 meters below them, judging from the scattered clouds, and is extremely large. the plane progressively crosses this remarkable phenomenon's flightpath, which then disappears after about a minute.

The captain, fearing ridicule does not report this encounter until 1997, when a large-circulation newsweekly publishes the incident using Air Force documentation. He doubtless is convinced of the importance of the sighting and decides to give sworn testimony.

SERPA conducts an investigation ending in June 2000 with the aid of the world-renowned specialist in aerial observations, Dr. Weinstein, also a longstanding associate with GEPAN. Three years after the occurrence, the inquiry is difficult, and even though there is a perfect correlation between the observed phenomenon and the radar signature, there is little chance that the witness testimonies were altered by a belated reconstruction, and the phenomenon that is described--which remains exceptional and which has not been explained to this day--leaves the door open to all hypotheses.

[BigRob]

Has anyone asked the obvious question?




WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE WANT TO GO TO FRANCE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Linzyhop]

Originally Posted by BigRob

Has anyone asked the obvious question?




WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE WANT TO GO TO FRANCE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

possible reasons: good wine, close to other European countries, and if you smell no one will notice.