French Agency Releases Ufo Files: Don’t Start Serving The Crepes Just Yet!
CNES and Geipan placed over thirty years worth of UFO investigation materials online as of Thursday, March 22, 2007. CNES is the official French Space Agency and Geipan is an agency of the French National Police. Are the files a hot Smoking Gun, or just another order of cold French Fries?
CNES receives about fifty to one hundred UFO reports each year. The investigative process they use is convoluted and quite different from what most Americans would expect. Geipan apparently does most of the field work, prepares reports and passes everything on to CNES. Scientists and Engineers take a look at that data and prepare some sort of final report or appraisal of the matter in question.
Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of “non-identified aerospatial phenomena” has said that “the data that we are releasing doesn’t demonstrate the presence of extraterrestrial beings. But it doesn’t demonstrate the impossibility of such presence either. The questions remain open.”
On the day of the announcement and...