France opens secret UFO files

Posted on March 22, 2007 by nuke

Paris, France became the first country to open its files on UFOs on Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.

The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.

“It is a world first,” said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of “non-identified aerospatial phenomena”.

Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.

“Cases such as the lady who reported seeing an object that looked like a flying roll of toilet paper” are clearly not worth investigating, said Patenet.

Source: news24.com

Flying roll of toilet paper? I must have missed that memo.

Three quarters of UFO cases are explainable, but that other 25% should provide some interesting reading (and possibly new TV shows, or even a few movie plots).

Here is a reported sighting from just over a week ago:

Illinois-03-10-07-The witness was in a hot tub at night, and saw a triangular-shaped UFO fly over his position. It was moving at very low altitude. Object was large, very dark in color, and more arrowhead shaped. Witness reported the sighting to local police department, but they had received no other reports of the slow moving, silent object.

Links:

The French UFO website

UFO Photographs

UFO Maps

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34 Responses

  1. Angel, on March 22, 2007 at 3:48 pm said:

    Hiya Nukester!..Flying roll of toilet paper?…ha..well thats a new one on me..:)

  2. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 4:57 pm said:

    Looking at the map, it seems as though UFO’s don’t care for the state of Jefferson. (area 51) :lol:

    Jefferson aka Area 51

  3. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 5:09 pm said:

    Flying toilet paper? Not in this house….

    N.Y. Times Hails the Eco-Extreme: Going Without Toilet Paper for a Year

  4. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 7:18 pm said:

    My area is also UFO free. Probably if some lil’ green beings showed up, somebody would shoot ‘em, skin ‘em, gut ‘em, and throw ‘em on the grill. That’d show them lil’ green sumbitches.

  5. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 7:33 pm said:

    UFO’s in France?
    I didn’t hear about those additional 1600 surrenders.

  6. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 7:45 pm said:

    Oh, sure, the toilet-paper free are going to put the poor tree farmers out of business, and if there is no reason to grow trees on the land, might as well develop it and destroy Bambi’s habitat.

  7. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 7:57 pm said:

    Isn’t a UFO one of those tasty things that you enjoy eating after purchase from a street vendor in Jaurez while carefully refraining from asking any awkward questions about the former identity of such?

  8. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 8:04 pm said:

    On the toilet paper free part, I just figured they were muslim anyway.

  9. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 8:26 pm said:

    There is archaelogical evidence, that the primitive French surrendered to thunderstorms.

  10. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 8:26 pm said:

    Them rocks be hard on the plumbing.

  11. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 8:27 pm said:

    Okay, N2L, I’ll bite…what is the archeological evidence that the French surrendered to thunderstorms?

    /I’m probably gonna hate myself for this.

  12. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 8:32 pm said:

    I see that Elizabeth Edwards did have a recurrence of breast cancer as we surmised last night. She’s a tough lady; if a group of doctors told me I was going to die, I wouldn’t be spending any of my precious time on a campaign trail.

    /Yeah, yeah, I know we’re all gonna die, but I’m still hoping to beat the odds.

  13. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 8:37 pm said:

    It’s a fact, in the mold of facts by rick.

  14. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 9:00 pm said:

    Encore of last nights southpark is on.

  15. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:02 pm said:

    Swamps, we had a little discussion about Edwards at GCP today. My take is if there was any love in that marriage at all, Silky would drop his egotistical crap and stand by his woman and not put her through that. It is incurable bone cancer, and the least he could do is put off his ego trip ’til 2012. Hell, it might even make some people like him…..

  16. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:02 pm said:

    Oh, well, that does me a whole world of good since I’m actually starting my shift now.

  17. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:06 pm said:

    Apparently he is the only person that does not see that his run for the Presidency as a very, very long shot.

  18. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:11 pm said:

    All that little prick sees is himself, and nothing else.

  19. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:11 pm said:

    Did y’all know that when the Paleoindians melted the glaciers, they created the great lakes? Pretty damn advanced global warming sh** for people that didn’t even have internal combustion engines.

  20. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 9:14 pm said:

    He will only carry the nutroots, and will finish at least third in the primaries. Any reasonable person would say “eff this BS, I’m hanging with my family.”
    But then he’s the liberal silky pony, being noble and responsible doesn’t satisfy his narcissism.

  21. nuke, on March 22, 2007 at 9:15 pm said:

    I thought that was Paul Bunyan draggin his ax

  22. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:17 pm said:

    Everyone knows that the UFO people helped them out. And all that traffic caused the warming trends back millions of years as they visited to make sure we were coming along as planned. Geeze Swamps, read your history! :roll:

  23. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:18 pm said:

    Oh yeah…or it could have been that nuke. :smile:

  24. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:31 pm said:

    Heh. Or perhaps the ancient Paleoindians were actually from France, and the UFOs melted off the glaciers to create a large place to bathe.

  25. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 9:34 pm said:

    You mean a place where the French couuuuld bathe.

  26. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:40 pm said:

    That bath thing didn’t quite catch on with them did it?

  27. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:43 pm said:

    Which could be why the great lakes are freshwater lakes.

  28. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 9:43 pm said:

    I think the UFO’ers were giving subtle hints to the Fwench, by carving out the bathing sites.
    Can’t explain the arrogant nature surrounding being stinky.

  29. SwampWoman, on March 22, 2007 at 9:45 pm said:

    /Disclaimer: A significant portion of my ancestors had names like Jacques, Jean-Pierre, and Xavier.

  30. no2liberals, on March 22, 2007 at 9:48 pm said:

    Thanks for letting us know that, Stinky Swampie.

  31. Robert D, on March 22, 2007 at 9:49 pm said:

    /Disclaimer: I aint saying….

  32. thescoundrel, on March 23, 2007 at 2:00 am said:

    Oops! I didn’t realize the gas cloud I created from that chili I ate, made it all the way to France and messed up their radar screens. Me Bad.

  33. murderofravens, on March 24, 2007 at 5:32 pm said:

    Well, why not? Look at it this way: if 100% of all UFO sighting were either fraudulent or erroneous, than the corollary here is that Earth is the only planet in the universe with intelligent life. Considering the billions of solar systems that exist just in this galaxy alone, such a proposition is actually far more unlikely than the notion that UFO’s (some of then, anyway) don’t exist. Just a thought.

    -Smith

  34. UFO Videos, on May 15, 2007 at 3:36 pm said:

    Yeah isn’t it about time too…

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