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

      What's french for cliché ?

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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.

  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

  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: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
  9. 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 ^^

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

    toute votre base sont appartiennent à nous

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