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France Opens Secret UFO Files

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mulder-and-scully dept.

Radon360 notes that France has become the first country to open its files on UFOs. A new website lists over 1600 sightings dating back to the 1950s. "The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists. Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption."

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  1. Moi by Mipoti+Gusundar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Je, pour une, bienvenu notre nouvelle ONVI maitre!

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    1. Re:Moi by jibjibjib · · Score: 2, Funny

      How do you say "Mod parent up" in French?

    2. Re:Moi by Mjlner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Je, pour une, bienvenu notre nouvelle ONVI maitre!
      You know, a "pardon my French" would be in order...
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    3. Re:Moi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Dammit, it's not called "french fries" or "freedom fries", it's called "chips"! I fear we lost an opportunity to teach Americans real English...

    4. Re:Moi by Library+Spoff · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's french for cliché ?

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    5. Re:Moi by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1, Funny

      If you're really offended by those, call them Belgian frites (fries). The French apparently do.

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    6. Re:Moi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I, for one, salute our new potato overlords. Which has nothing to do with the French, or UFOs, or for that matter, science. Being humble, I have already modded myself down -10 and tagged it "Food Nazi Bait"

    7. Re:Moi by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 2, Funny

      >But wait, I "must be new here", right?

      Well, judging by your user id#, you would seem to be relatively new here. :-)

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  2. French Response by oldwindways · · Score: 3, Funny

    Honestly, if the French government though there were UFOs, they wouldn't bother to cover it up, they would just surrender.

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    1. Re:French Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Then the US would invade wherever the UFOs came from, only to retreat several years later when no WMDs are found.

    2. Re:French Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And then either forget to mention they ever did it until some inconvinient comedy show sets itself there (MASH and korea)

      Or write in the history books that they won despite everyone outside the US kowing they got their asses kicked (viet nam)

  3. Since this is France we are talking about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    will the database contain a field on whether or not the aliens looked delicious?

    1. Re:Since this is France we are talking about by Plutonite · · Score: 5, Funny

      These guys eat toads - I wouldn't land my green butt in France if I were an alien.

  4. Tag zis by ootykumar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ze truth iz out zere

    1. Re:Tag zis by z0idberg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your French accent sounds very German.

  5. Re:Link seems broken by Gordonjcp · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMFG conspiracy! Either that or it's slashdotted already.

  6. Translation by cabinetsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Je, pour une, bienvenu notre nouvelle ONVI maitre!
    I surrender to our new UFO overlords.
  7. Oh for heavens sake by KlausBreuer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do people keep wanting to babble on about this idiocy? I want them to keep quiet about it - if you have to be a UFO-nut, I am certainly not interested in it.

    Sheesh, ACC offered my this planet for a nice quiet vacation, but everywhere I see people babbling about UFOs...

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  8. Re:Link seems broken by cabinetsoft · · Score: 1, Funny

    OMFG conspiracy! Either that or it's slashdotted already.
    No, they surrendered.
  9. Re:its a matter of point of view by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will never believe that an advanced race can travel all the way across the inconceivable distance between stars, and be dumb enough to crash. Yeah, humans definitely have the market on that particular brand of stupidity (RIP Beagle 2). :-P
  10. Comment servir l'homme ? by jmmerliot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never forget,

    "Comment servir l'homme ?" (How to serve man ?)

    is a cooking guide....

    Juste loved this old TZ episode

    -- a true frog from France ^^

  11. Re:its a matter of point of view by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless visiting Earth and scaring humans is the alien equivalent of cow tipping...

  12. Re:its a matter of point of view by CmdrGravy · · Score: 2, Funny

    We don't really know how Aliens thought processes would work but we do have a fair idea of the physical practicalities of manufacturing space ships and embarking on space journeys and based on that it's very hard to see why anyone would simply fly over to stick a few probes up the butts of dumb American farmers and fly off again.

    However until we have any evidence that Aliens are behind UFO sightings, which we don't, we shouldn't really spend too much time trying to justify how it might happen.

  13. And that's not the worst part... by jpellino · · Score: 3, Funny

    The French are looking to prosecute any UFOs who aren't using open standards for their communications.

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    1. Re:And that's not the worst part... by ericlondaits · · Score: 5, Funny

      Like those nefarious aliens that used AppleTalk in Independence Day!

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  14. Re:A better translation and masters by ChameleonDave · · Score: 1, Funny

    Je, quant à moi, souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres OVNIs.

    "Je" is very seldom separated from its verb.

    Here's a better stab at it: Moi, je souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres extraterrestres.

    Or better still: Comme je suis complètement con, je passe mon temps à répéter des clichés hyper-chiants sur Slashdot.

  15. Surrender Monkeys by WED+Fan · · Score: 2, Funny

    The files show that between 1949 and 1972, France surrended a total of 122 times to suspected UFO invaders. There was another incident in which they negotiated a collaboration with alien grays, only to find out they were Basque shepards in ultra-lights, the language difficulty causing the misunderstanding.

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  16. all your base are belong to us by jerryodom · · Score: 3, Funny

    toute votre base sont appartiennent à nous

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