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It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

Posted March 22, 2007 6:55 PM

From CBC | Technology & Science News:

France's Space Agency has opened its official archives on unidentified flying objects, according to European news agencies. Jacques Patenet, the head of UFO studies at the country's National Centre of Space Studies (CNES), said France is the first country to do so, according to reports in Agence France-Presse in France and Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Germany. "It's a world first," Patenet said, according to the news agencies. "It's true that in the United States you can ask for information on a case-by-case basis. But we have done the opposite by putting all the information at the disposition of the public."

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Yuval
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Re: It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

03/24/2007 12:10 AM

The cat is finally out of the bag:

...the United States you can ask for information on a case-by-case basis...

O - Behave!

They started some fifteen years ago with open-sale of global satellite imaging (preferably to developing countries, a kinda "delegate your high-grade resources"), now this.

They need petro-dollars too, or atleast some substitute, Is election day coming?

Maybe it's all about show business, Go figure
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Erratum: It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

03/24/2007 12:21 AM

I know, I know, I deliberately took the quote out of context.

My apologies? I'm still mad, about their open sale of sat-images, enabling you-know-who to range all of us into their cross-hairs.
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Re: Erratum: It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

03/24/2007 3:02 PM

1.) www.nowpublic.com/france_opens_secret_ufo_files

2.) www.cnes.fr/web/4461-geipan.php (French)

to translate this page: www.bablefish.altavista.com/

3.) www.news24.com , www.news24/technology/news/0,9294,2-13-1443_2087559,00.html

CBC and CNES have used this "erratum" for "entertainment". It is their way of makiing money ... oh sorry ... entertaining, and that is no flame.
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Re: Erratum: It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

03/24/2007 3:30 PM

the url: www.news24/technology/news/0,9294,2-13-1443_2087559,00.html

was changed to: www.news24/News24/technology/news/0,9294,2-13-1443_2087559,00.html

The editor for this post allots 15 minutes for editing. The time expired before I could track the change and enter a correction, which is the reason for this double post.

I just checked the url and again it seems that the id has been changed. If you are interested you can track the source ... www.news24.com/ and searching for " france opens secret ufo files".

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Addendum: It's Out There: France Makes UFO Files Public

03/24/2007 3:58 PM

...They started some fifteen years ago...

"They" - Meaning the French, in the remote case anyone missed it
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03/24/2007 7:22 PM

Read the whole article

What did you expect? Space aliens? ChewBakka? Or........?

A real no news news story!

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03/24/2007 7:41 PM

...Why be difficult when with just a little application you can be absolutely impossible...

Love it

Did you see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free_energy/ ?

Adopted from third encounters?
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03/24/2007 8:07 PM

OR ... Do nothing simply if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful!

Applies in particular to perpetual motions schemes, magnet motors etc.

Did you see.... /free_energy/ ?

Been there, done that.

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