Classified French UFO files go online

Turtle · 03-24-2007

The French have just put their government UFO (they call 'em unidentified aerospace phenomena, UAPs), files online for everyone. Here's the official site for your perusal.
Cnes - CNES-EN
If you find something good, by all means post us a short report and reference here. Duck n cover!

orbsycli · 03-25-2007

Thank you this made my night

alexander · 03-27-2007

I still fail to understand how this belongs in history, but i will go with you, it is an excellently interesting resource nontheless though, i quite enjoyed it.

Although i do have this to say, i find CERN quite a bit more interesting :P
on the other hand, who does not (unless they know not what cern is)

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Turtle · 03-27-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexander

I still fail to understand how this belongs in history, but i will go with you, it is an excellently interesting resource nontheless though, i quite enjoyed it.

I think I can justify it as History on at least two accounts:

1) On account of historically, governments have either denied they keep UFO records, or refused to de-classify them.

2) On account of the archive is itself a history of UFO reports.

I haven't set about looking through the archive yet, but I've heard it includes sightings that are 'verified' and yet unexplained. Personally I think many are atmosphereic phenomena we don't yet understand. Electromagnetic lensing for example, as in the HAARP experiments. I think this allows for both a visual sighting & a radar record, or either one without the other.