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France releases UFO files

28 March 2007

The truth is online. In a world first, the French space agency, CNES, made its official UFO archives public on 22 March.

The agency went public because people were concerned about secrecy and conspiracies, says Jacques Arnauld of GEIPAN, the CNES unit set up to investigate UFOs in 1977. “We really have nothing to hide.”

So far, the GEIPAN website () contains just a quarter of the more than 6000 eyewitness UFO reports sent to the unit by police over three decades. Typically, such reports are followed up by police and scientific and military experts. GEIPAN has debunked about…

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