The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, France, on January 12, 2007.
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SPACE. The National Center for Space Studies (Cnes) will gradually put online from February and March its archives on unidentified aerospace phenomena, an official term synonymous with UFOs (unidentified flying objects). For the most part, these documents consist of more than 3,000 police reports, collected by a Cnes department. More than 100,000 pages that had to be digitized and processed, to eliminate, as required by law, all personal data. "One should not expect any scoops," warns Jacques Patenet, head of the CNES study group on unidentified aerospace phenomena (PAN). "The most curious cases have already been the subject of publications by associations and I don't think we can add much more." This transparency initiative initiated by the CNES responds to repeated criticism from many flying saucer enthusiasts, who accuse the organization of hiding data on the subject.
With AFP
