Phénomènes Inexpliqués

March 23, 2007 7:44 PM

France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales has unleashed its UFO archives on the internet. (And the internet has been unleashed on CNES' UFO archives). The CNES version of the now trendy UFO-archive-release stunt is a little flashier and a little more romantic than its brethren with a host of pictures, drawings, video and audio and a guaranteed 28% unexplained content. Even the explained phenomenon are interesting in their own way. The AP write-up cites a report where "Experts initially concluded that [a burning object dropping into a field] was part of the propulsion device of a recently launched satellite. Eventually they realized it was a piece of German World War II ordnance that spontaneously exploded four decades after the war." As the archives become more explorable, they promise to reveal strange things that may have visited us, or in the very least, the strange things we and our own habitat are capable of creating.
posted by pokermonk (4 comments total)

Je veux croire.
posted by gsteff at 8:47 PM on March 23, 2007

Well, as the subject is France and UFOs, we might as well throw in a link to the COMETA report.
posted by well_balanced at 9:29 PM on March 23, 2007

J'y crois pas...
posted by NewBornHippy at 10:23 PM on March 23, 2007

I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this...and more thoughts on the necessity of tinfoil hats.
posted by pithy comment at 10:56 AM on April 4, 2007