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March 23, 2007 6:52

France Comes Clean on UFOs!

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Plenty of people are convinced the world's governments are conspiring in a massive coverup of the "fact" that UFOs have been visiting our planet for years. In the U.S., for example, it's just obvious that a saucer crashed in Roswell, N.M. in 1947, and that government agents came and removed the little alien bodies. They're still on ice in a secret government lab. Oh, and we reverse-engineered a crashed saucer to discover alien technology too. You think the transistor was invented at Bell Labs, don't you. Ha!

The strongest evidence for all this is that there is no evidence. Naturally--because the government's files on UFOs are still mostly classified. Why would they be secret if there were no actual aliens? Answer me that!

But now the French are coming clean: their government has now released all of its secret UFO documents and put them up on the web. The site has proven so popular that you can't even get to it.

Hmmm......sounds like a conspiracy to me.

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Reader Comments (17)

JOTHI NARAYANAN:

Dear ML,
THE blog on UFOs made me crazy in search of the classified documents on UFO of USA as well as FRENCH.My wife confirmed me that she is not going to help me in search of this file,since it is a file on ALIEN and we are not sure of any unknown ill effects through the remote control operators of UFOs.
Finally, I decided to contact one of my friends in
USA,but he replied me by saying that though I was involved in many projects I am not aware the meaning of UFO i.e UnFinshed Project and put a question to me,
'How America will disclose the details on an UnFinished Project on UFOs?
As a born optimist I browsed my old project files that I worked with a FRENCH company in 1978 in order to find the address of few project colleagues and ask them secretly about the UFOs files referred by ML.But the search has gone in vain.
Last evening I received a satisfying reply from my friend in PONDICHERRY who has some French connections,confirmed me that he also searched the files in 'UP ON THE WEB' butTHE French UFOs file keepers are availing French Leave and hence they are also like 'Unidentified Flying Objects."
phoenixjn@hotmail.com

Posted by JOTHI NARAYANAN | March 25, 2007 12:45 AM

Don Ledger:

Knowing that the Corso "revelations" are an embarrassment to those of us who seek answers to this phenomenon and who actually have spent years digging out files, interviewing witnesses, your alluding therefore to the Bell Labs nonsense is just another way to denigrate, with tongue in cheek, any work that we do do and any gains we make.
This is most disconcerting because as hard as we try to put forward the real facts of the matter, the "Missing Times" factor embedded in the media-and without any seeming reason to do so- comes to the fore.
Better you abide by the example set by John Hilkevitch at the Chicago Tribune on January 1/07 than some discriminating or even perhaps enforced policy of denigration of the topic whenever you are required to confront it.
The similarity of press reports when it comes to the reporting on the UFO phenomenon is uncanny-almost as if there is a guidebook issued to the media.
Bear in mind that 25-30 percent of the cases investegated by the French Government's CNES remained unsolved. This general average holds true across the board and belies the usual 1-5 percent nonsense.
Because it was France that released the cases rather than the US does not make their investigative capability less reliable. That's just US bias-pure and simple.

Don Ledger
pilot, author

Posted by Don Ledger | March 25, 2007 3:34 PM

martin:

It's a fight for the right to have classified documents remain classified regardless of the spoof involved. That's human nature.

Posted by martin | March 26, 2007 7:11 AM

Vaibhav Rastogi:

Read "9/11" and "The Signs" at buddhaarya.rediffiland.com/.

If we think very closely about the world events happening especially in the past century then we might come to some conclusions. In today's scenarios there are so many things, which are extra ordinary. Such as -
1) Why will 2 super powers such as Russia and US fight with each other? If they really fight then why Russia suddenly becomes so weak. Are they really fighting?
2) Why some people say that there is some conspiracy behind 9/11? Why US will destroy its own building?
3) Why suddenly entire west seems to get united to beat "Fundamentalist Islam"?
4) Why China/Russia initially support Iran and now taking a step back, after UN resolution?
5) Why there are talks about the "Russia-China-India" axis? What is special about this axis? Why US is so afraid of China?
6) Why US lost in Vietnam and did not lose in Afganistan and Iraq?
7) What is the reason for Iraq war?

There is a concept called as "Object-oriented" programming in Computer science. This concept teaches us "To solve problems in terms of problems". Sometimes defining a big problem in several small problems might solve the problem itself. Divide a big question into various small questions like above and you might find the answer by itself.

Posted by Vaibhav Rastogi | March 28, 2007 1:23 AM

Vaibhav Rastogi:

I want to add one more point to my previous comments. If a person know some facts and is willing to hide from us then monitor the activities of that person to get some hint of what does he knows. If Govts know about the facts then let us analyse their actions epecially of last 60 years. Put all this information at one place and find out the extra ordinary (unusual) things then how can not we know the truth.

Posted by Vaibhav Rastogi | March 28, 2007 1:31 AM

jim:

The link to the French site shown in your entry is incorrect. Once I removed the error, I was able to get to the site.My French is very rusty, (unused for over 35 years).
However, there appear to be patterns of mass hysteria, junk science and repetitions of the
Roswell disinformation sprinkled throughout.

It all boils down to this: Where is the physical evidence?
When is a UFO going to fly over New York, so all
8 million residents can see it?

--So what's the error? I'd like to remove it too.

Posted by jim | April 1, 2007 11:25 PM

Joe:

If you strip the URL to http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/ then voila! Also, at the risk of being rude (something we detest in the South), if you are going to use web technology to post your opinions, spend some time learning it.

Posted by Joe | April 20, 2007 10:10 AM

Barton Paul Levenson:

I think it's clear that Brussels sprouts are proof of alien visitation. I like the things, I'll eat them if they're served to me. But honestly, a tiny cabbage less than an inch across arising naturally? I don't think so. I think the aliens tampered with the natural cabbage's genes, producing this little genetic experiment. The next step may be to use it on us! If human beings only massed 5 grams or so, we'd use up a lot less of the world's resources -- leaving the rest for the Grays. We'd be colonized in a minute if we were less than an inch tall. Think about it.

--Sounds like a Time cover story to me.
M.L.

Posted by Barton Paul Levenson | April 24, 2007 11:42 AM

Learn Chinese:

hi Vaibhav Rastogi, I am learning Chinese in Beijing. Based on my observation, China does not dare to offend Iran because China needs oil from Iran. There are 1.4-1.6 billion population in China, they need at least 25% oil in the world. If US shares more oil to China, everything will be ok.

Posted by Learn Chinese | August 23, 2007 12:26 AM

Ashyr:

Load the disinfor sites now. there atempting to plan an fake alien invasion to unite world goverment

you think they would release ALL alien documents if any. without specific scruitiny on how it will be interpreted
? of course not. its a ploy.

now your a crack baby fixin for a ufo hit.

Posted by Ashyr | November 25, 2007 8:50 PM

Anshad Mohammed:

Everybody who knows anything about UFO'S know for sure that the UFO's are straight out of the great religious texts ,and all of the texts can be described as a compendium of UFO's.The UFO's are appearing at the same time these texts have predicted that they would appear to save planet earth from a man made nuclear catastrophe or an environmental disaster of mammoth proportions,that would wipe out life as we know it.So nothing could be more crystal clear.It is only a matter of time before our Govt's with their coverups make earth extinct or by opening up the truth on UFO's ,eventually hand over Govt's to UFO's and thereby save earth.How the dice falls and the way the cookie crumbles,only time can tell.Have patience ,is the only answer.

Posted by Anshad Mohammed | November 27, 2007 1:37 AM

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