March 24, 2007
'LE X-FILES'
Break open the champagne and bust out the tinfoil party hats, conspiracy theorists! Unlike those damn curmudgeons at Area 51, who will only respond to individual Freedom of Information Act requests for documents on a case by case basis, the French government has just made its entire archive of UFO reports open to the public. And they put it on the Internet!!!! My God, Agents Mulder and Scully would have loved this. I wonder what the French translation of "Anal Probe" is?
France is the first country to open up fully its UFO files to the public.
Although other countries including the UK collect data on UFOs, files can be requested only on a case-by-case basis under the Freedom of Information Act.
Now, thanks to a small team of space agency researchers who call themselves the Office for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena
[pictured to the right], the French will be able to access some 10,000 documents about UFOs, including photographs, police reports and videos sent in by witnesses.The team offers explanations for some of the sightings - for example when 1,000 people reported seeing flashing lights in the sky one November night 17 years ago, the researchers were able to prove it had been a rocket fragment falling back into the earth's atmosphere.
But only about 9% of France's UFO cases have ever been fully explained, the group says.
And of the 1,600 cases registered since 1954, nearly a quarter are known as Category D - meaning that in spite of good data and witnesses, the mysterious sightings remain inexplicable.
So many visitors have been attempting to access the site online, however, that its servers have been overwhelmed and it has become impossible to access the archives. Or so they tell us.
Tagged: france, ufo, x-filesPosted by Lexiphane at March 24, 2007 8:58 AM
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