[DIVERS] French space agency to publish UFO archive online

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Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:16am ET

PARIS (Reuters) - The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO
sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who
reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics.

Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Center (CNES),
said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late
January or mid-February.

He said the CNES had been collecting statements and documents for almost 30
years to archive and study them.
"Often they are made to the Gendarmerie, which provides an official witness
statement ... and some come from airline pilots," he said by telephone.

Given the success of films about visitations from outer space like "E.T.",
"Close Encounters of The Third Kind" and "Independence Day", the CNES
archive is likely to prove a hit.

It consists of around 6,000 reports, many relating to the same incident,
filed by the public and airline professionals. Their names would not be
published to protect their privacy, Anould said.

Advances in technology over the past three decades had prompted the decision
to put the archive online, he said, adding it would likely be available via
the CNES website www.cnes.fr.

C Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

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