hiei_kurama27
March 29th, 2007, 01:57 PM
A couple days ago I was told France is now the first country to make their knowledge of UFOs public, online on March 22nd. Probably millions of people are trying to access the server at the same time, so the site will load extremely slow.
Site:
http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/geipan
It's in french obviously, so:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
PARIS - France's space agency is opening its "X-Files" to the public, putting years of UFO research and tens of thousands of documents on the Web.
For years, a small group of agency researchers has been trying to explain reports of unidentified flying objects, using documents that include police reports, sketches, photos, videos and maps.
The first batch went on the Internet Thursday, and the site got so much traffic that it has been difficult to access since, said the space agency, known by its French initials CNES.
About 100,000 of the documents used by the Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena will eventually go up on the site.
Only about 9 percent of France's UFO cases have been fully explained, the group says, while experts have found a likely explanation for another 33 percent of cases.
Some cases unraveled over years. In 1985, two farmers near the Atlantic coastal city of Royan saw a burning object drop into a field nearby.
Experts initially concluded that it was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. But eventually, they realized it was a piece of leftover German World War II ordnance that had spontaneously exploded and launched into the sky, the agency said.
Another case concerned a 1994 Air France flight. While flying over the Paris region, the airplane's crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering in the horizon and constantly changing shape. The case "has never been explained to this day, and leaves the door open to all possible hypotheses," the agency wrote.
Site:
http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/geipan
It's in french obviously, so:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
PARIS - France's space agency is opening its "X-Files" to the public, putting years of UFO research and tens of thousands of documents on the Web.
For years, a small group of agency researchers has been trying to explain reports of unidentified flying objects, using documents that include police reports, sketches, photos, videos and maps.
The first batch went on the Internet Thursday, and the site got so much traffic that it has been difficult to access since, said the space agency, known by its French initials CNES.
About 100,000 of the documents used by the Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena will eventually go up on the site.
Only about 9 percent of France's UFO cases have been fully explained, the group says, while experts have found a likely explanation for another 33 percent of cases.
Some cases unraveled over years. In 1985, two farmers near the Atlantic coastal city of Royan saw a burning object drop into a field nearby.
Experts initially concluded that it was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. But eventually, they realized it was a piece of leftover German World War II ordnance that had spontaneously exploded and launched into the sky, the agency said.
Another case concerned a 1994 Air France flight. While flying over the Paris region, the airplane's crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering in the horizon and constantly changing shape. The case "has never been explained to this day, and leaves the door open to all possible hypotheses," the agency wrote.