France offers close encounters with UFO files

France this week became the first country to open all of its government UFO files to researchers. French authorities unveiled an online site that thoroughly documents some 1,600 sightings over five decades. About 25 percent of the evidence reportedly received a "type D" classification, meaning that despite credible witnesses and good evidence, no explanation for the phenomena could be found.
The file probably won’t either convince skeptics or dissuade UFO believers, but it is a laudable exercise in open government and scientific cooperation.
The United States should follow suit. Back in 2002, former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta called on the Pentagon to release all of its UFO files, saying, "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon."
And while they’re at it, they should release the bodies of those aliens in Hanger 18.
Posted by Randy Scholfield

28 Comments

  1. HA
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Maybe then they can find the phantom WMDs.

  2. Republican
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

    Stop smiling Randy! You know darn well that the pyramids were built by Aliens!

    er…

    nm…off to put on my trekkie shirt.

    :\

  3. Wiseman
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

    Kudos to France.It is about time they open up those reports, it would provide more information and maybe give us enough details to figuring out their technology, but I am having trouble getting thru to the website, maybe WE blog has a dead link.

  4. Jed
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    The aliens haven’t been to France; they told me so themselves- no reason to go, because the French make lousy popcorn, and popcorn is the only thing Earth has that’s valuable in the rest of the galaxy!

  5. SOB
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

    When crackpots from global warming and UFOs meet:

    http://www.acton.org/blog/index.html?/archives/1527-Global-Warming-+-UFO-Conspiracy-Crazy-Delicious!.html

    Perhaps The Goracle is an alien.

  6. fleettwood
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

    Great. Now France will surrender to Mars.

  7. cosmos
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

    SOB,

    Looks like ExxonMobil is getting what they paid for. Or actually, what XOM’s customers paid for, at the gas pump, etc.

    ‘FACTSHEET: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty,’http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=5“Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty has received $160,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.”

  8. Infernal B
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:44 pm | Permalink

    FOR SALE:French rifle like new. Only dropped once.

  9. SOB
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 2:57 pm | Permalink

    The Goracle: The new Pope of church of global warming.

  10. GMC70
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    What better excuse than this thread topic for a new round of French jokes!!!

    I propose voting for your favorite. Current front runners:

    “Great. Now France will surrender to Mars.” – fleetwood

    “The aliens haven’t been to France; they told me so themselves- no reason to go, because the French make lousy popcorn, and popcorn is the only thing Earth has that’s valuable in the rest of the galaxy!” – Jed

    C’mon, people, I know we’ve got better smart remarks out there – let’s hear em.

    How ’bout:

    “Of course France. Humans always taste better when marinated in a good wine.”

  11. Econ101
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    Hey — Mars is warming too, right? lol

  12. Republican
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    Hmmm French jokes…

    We shouldn’t really make fun of the French, they are not here to defend themselves.

    On second thought, if they were here they still wouldn’t defend themselves.

    :D

  13. Dingus
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    I was gonna stick up for the French after all they cant have lost every war but in thinking, the only time I can think them winning the french army was so fucked up they had to rely on a schizopenfic teenage girl to lead them to a Win, and they ratted her out to the English

  14. J R
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

    Good for France. It is long past time the US came clean on whatever it has on these phenomena.

  15. Wiseman
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

    Randy, you are never going to find those aliens because they were deported a long time ago.I have also google in the site and it turns out that the website itself — which crashed host servers hours after it was unveiled due to heavy traffic — is extremely well organized and complete, even including scanned copies of police reports.To visit the website: http://www.cnes-geipan.fr.

  16. J M Walker
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    Think shrub and the invasion of neo-cons from Uranus.

    Better yet . . . you might want to think about that prior to visualizing.

  17. J M Walker
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Des chaque des sightings en France d’UFOs ont été résolus : ils ne sont rien les objets plus que divers jetés dans le ciel par mes compatriotes se rendant à qui que ce soit qu’ils souhaitent. J’ai honte si.

  18. SOB
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Grey Poupon

  19. steve
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    They won’t find the UFO’s they were all secretly moved to Syria by the Aliens.

  20. GMC70
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    JM -

    I’ll freely admit – I speak no french. Darn it!

    If you translate, will it be less snobby?

    ;-)

  21. J M Walker
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:31 pm | Permalink

    Not one bit; after all, it’s French!

  22. Wiseman
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 5:35 pm | Permalink

    J’ai honte si.

    I have shame if?

  23. Jed
    Posted March 23, 2007 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    Dingus,Maybe you never heard of Napoleon?

  24. Dingus
    Posted March 24, 2007 at 5:04 am | Permalink

    Napoleon lost Russia Waterloo, and technically he wasn’t French he was Corsican which I believe are Italians

  25. writerdog
    Posted March 24, 2007 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    OK GMC here you go!

    What did one space alien say to another space alien when they landed their space craft in the middle of Paris? “ Man this city smells worst then Uranus”.

    While hiding from an alien invasion in the rubble of a building that had been destroyed by a ray from a alien space craft. One Frenchman said to another Frenchman, “ Damn and I thought the American were snobs!”.

    “We did not come to France to take your natural resources, to enslave the French or spread our advance technology to a more primitive race! We want to meet Bridget Bardo, she is hot on any planet!”Said the alien as he walked down the ramp.

    What does seeing a space alien and seeing a French woman’s unshaven arm pit have in common? Both can made an American man back away!

    As the alien craft lifted off from visiting France, the commander of the mission said to his second in command. “Damn and I thought the Americans were snobs!”.

  26. BJ
    Posted May 31, 2007 at 6:04 am | Permalink

    Hey – since you’re into UFOs, have you seen this Roswell video?www.flownetworkproductions.com/evidenceofaliens.htm I thought it was fake until I watched Part 2. What do you think?

  27. momo
    Posted June 25, 2007 at 1:59 am | Permalink

    est-il vrai ceci ?

    http://www.freewebs.com/bastaprestitipersonali/

  28. momo
    Posted June 25, 2007 at 1:59 am | Permalink

    est-il vrai ceci ?

    http://www.freewebs.com/bastaprestitipersonali/