The Ministry of Defence in the UK will follow the lead of the French national space agency and release their data on UFO sightings to the public online. No date has been set for the release but it is expected to be within weeks. Expected to be among the 24 files, each containing 200-300 reports, are details of the 1980 incident at Rendlesham Forest.
"The more of this stuff that they put on their website or put in the national archives, the less it will cost the taxpayer, because at the moment people are writing in about individual incidents and they are having respond" - David Clarke, Sheffield Hallam University. Source The Guardian
France's national space agency has opened its UFO files to the public by launching a website which documents sightings over five decades. So many people have already tried to look at the files that it has become impossible to access the site.
France has open its official archives on unidentified flying objects (UFO) The archives are available HERE
PODCAST In this exclusive interview our guest is mr. Jacques Patenet from French Space Agency, CNES. He is is the head of GEIPAN (Groupe d’Etudes et d’Information des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés), official group in France that has mandate to research UFO phenomena. Mr. Patenet will present us the history of official UFO research in France, current status and future plans.
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 Centre (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.