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French to put UFO archive online

Little green men
By INQUIRER newsdesk
Wed Jan 03 2007, 14:59
THE FRENCH SPACE, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) said it is ready to publish its archive of reported UFO sightings online.

A spokesman said the database of around 1,600 incidents would go live by the end of February.

CNES' Rare Aerospace Phenomena Study Department (SEPRA) has over 6,000 documents relating to "strange sightings". Some 1,200 UFO sightings have been reported within French national borders over the past 30 years.

It seems the French government takes UFOs seriously. Former SEPRA director Jean-Jacques Vélasco writes: "Some people consider me as the authority who will systematically decree that all such phenomena are but the fruit of the imagination, or that they are all understood after analysis".

"For others, I am the person who will comfort them in their beliefs that little green men do exist," he wrote in the CNES newsletter. µ

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