French UFO fever crashes website

**Adam** · 23rd March 2007, 10:41 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6486287.stm

France's national space agency has opened its UFO files to the public by launching a website which documents reported sightings over five decades.

So many people have already tried to look at the files that it has become impossible to access the site.

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, 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.

The online archives will be updated whenever new cases are reported.

**Tabbitha** · 24th March 2007, 06:42 AM

Personally I blame Lord Bevier

**DiP** · 24th March 2007, 07:13 AM

Is Lord Bevier one of Cabe's characters?

lklovelykiki24 · 24th March 2007, 07:23 AM

Cool

**Adam** · 24th March 2007, 12:52 PM

LOL Dip!

**Tabbitha** · 26th March 2007, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiP

Is Lord Bevier one of Cabe's characters?

hehe

23rd March 2007, 10:41 PM	#1
Adam "Can Set Custom Title" Join Date: Oct 1990 Posts: 6,454 Gold: 2,993 Thanks: 61 Thanked 959 Times in 319 Posts	French UFO fever crashes website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6486287.stm France's national space agency has opened its UFO files to the public by launching a website which documents reported sightings over five decades. So many people have already tried to look at the files that it has become impossible to access the site. 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, 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. The online archives will be updated whenever new cases are reported.

24th March 2007, 06:42 AM	#2
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