We talked at a TV debate ("C Dans l'air"), recorded yesterday, airing tomorrow, Friday, March 30, on the French national network France 5.

Some more information, and some corrections of what has been already reported:

The name GEIPAN means Groupe d'Etudes et d'Information des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non identifies, (Group for Studies and Information on Unidentified Aerospatial Phenomena). It was created in September 2005, to replace the SEPRA which closed in January 2004. Also put in place at that time, a steering comittee (COPEIPAN) presided over by Yves Sillard, former director of CNES, and comprising about fifteen members, whose names are not known.

In January 2006, Jacques Patenet announced that GEIPAN was going to put all its UFO files on the web site of CNES, during 2006. The project had been delayed but has now begun with the release of some 400 files this monthh, covering the period 1988-2005.

Initial inquiries by CNES began in 1977 on the creation of the first service called GEPAN, but there are files from the fifties, and even one from 1937.

There are a total of 1,650 files, including some 6,000 testimonies, and a volume of some 100,000 pages, A4 format (not 100,000 files, as stated somewhere!).

This month, Jacques Patenet has given a number of interviews, in which he warned that we are not going to find any new big case. The best cases, such as Trans-en-Provence in 1981, are known already.

However, there is new information worth mentioning. The number of unidentified cases after serious study (the "PAN D" category), is now estimated at 25 to 28% (depending on the day ot the interview, apparently). This is much more than previous figures. In recent years, it was given at around 13%. So, the revision of the files has at least brought this bonus for French ufology...

Two main ideas are being put forward by Jacques Patenet, in several interviews. First: "There are no secrets, and we are releasing all the files. Our purpose is to put to rest allegations of UFO secrecy. Second, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is conceivable, but there is not the slightest solid proof for it, or against either."

For my part, the point I want to stress is that, yes, these files at GEIPAN are not "secret" files. They are mainly sightings by civilian witnesses, gathered and reported by the Gendarmes - the military police. If there are really secret files in France, they are somewhere else, probably of military nature. At the debate yesterday on French TV, we pushed him a bit on that question, and he had to admit it. So, his first statement is somewhat misleading, in fact. If there are secret files, he just does not have them!

I also want to correct another mistake, seen in the Sunday Times article of March 25, "Spooky... They Start a UFO Website Then it Crashes". It mentions the COMETA Report (without naming it), published in 1999, as being a publication of the French government, at the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale). It had been said by some people at the time, but it is not true. This report was from a private group, the COMETA, even if its true that it had been encouraged at the beginning by the head of IHEDN, General Norlain.

In all, I think that we can consider that publication of French UFO files as a very positive effort, wich has already the effect of renewing interest for UFOs in the French media, and perhaps of putting France back on the map of ufology!

Gildas Bourdais

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http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/

I was using the following digital camera Sony dsc H2 and the time stamp of the 7 photos go from 8:25:36 AM to 8:25:40 AM. It just seems to disappear and does not go any further than that last photo.

While taking the photos I did not see anything, it was when I was looking at them on my computer that I noticed the object. I couldn't hear any particular noises (except the vehicles on the main road). Anyway I will be doing more photos to see if the thing comes back around the area.

What do you think ?

Regards

Wes

A big thanks to Wes for sending in report and photographs.

In November of 1964, my best friend (Robert) and I were returning home from a dance in Perryton Texas. We were teenagers and for the record didn't drink or do drugs. It was near midnight as I remember and fairly clear. Robert was driving and we had just gone through Stinnett. As we topped the hill and headed into the Canadian River Canyon it became very cold and an intense snowstorm began.

Our visibility dropped to zero. I was trying my best to help Robert navigate the road. Then I awoke the next morning around seven in the drivers seat with Robert in the passenger seat. We were parked in front of Robert's house-I lived two houses away. We were both confused and had no memory of what had happened but I KNOW I wasn't driving. I went home exhausted and went to sleep.

I grew up on the Texas Panhandle and it was common to see UFOs. I'll try to share more now.

I am now near 60 and my earliest memory of UFOs and aliens is when I was around seven. At that time I also started to have dreams and memories of floating, flying, and levitation. I remember standing in a very large cavernous underground base. I am holding the finger of a being that I would consider to be a grayish tint and feminine. I am not afraid and feel somewhat secure. We are watching a spaceship (disc) being loaded. I remember long tunnels going off in each direction.

Somehow and I don't know how, but I know this base is under the Canadian River. I remember how busy and easily they seemed to load the ship. Being young, it seemed very large then, maybe 200 feet and a silvery pewter color. Yesterday I was speaking to my sister about my experience and unsolicited she mentioned that her experiences started at about age seven.

She remembers floating out of our home and on to a ship. She was taken to a place that she began to call the "safe place", because she was told it would be safe in the event of nuclear war. I asked her where it was and she said under the Canadian River. I have several brothers and sisters and as soon as I can I am going to ask them about any experiences they might have had.

My next memory is riding in that very space ship or one like it. I remember being allowed to touch the controller that lurched the vessel forward. It seemed to lean forward and skittered about as it began to move forward and just as quick it began to fly smoothly. I can still feel the sensation of the odd acceleration. It was explained to me how the propulsion system worked-there were three engines and they worked off gravity and anti-gravity. I then started having missing time episodes, with the longest being the one I told you about.

Another odd thing is that I had a lump behind my right ear for years, up into adulthood and then it disappeared. I also remember that while I was six or seven my mother had a small piece of what looked to be a crystal removed from her thumb. I remember that she didn't know how it got there and I watched the doctor remove it.

About ten years ago I went to the dentist to have some work done. Understand, I have never had a cavity in my life until then. He made a comment about the filling and root canal that showed up on my X-ray that he hadn't seen before and wanted to know when I had it done. I told him I had never had a root canal or a filling and I don't think he believed me. A few years later, I had another X-ray and there was no longer a filling or signs of a root canal. I believe these to be some type of tag.

Regards,

Pat

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March 28, 2007 7:32 PM-At first, she thought what she was seeing was something ordinary.

"As I pulled out of my driveway, I noticed it," Theresa Sinclair, 58, Silvis said. "I thought it was an airplane that was very low."

It was about 6:30 a.m. March 23, and Ms. Sinclair was on her way to her job at the Rock Island Arsenal. What she saw through the open window of her car was a triangular shape in the sky, with bright red, green and white lights along its edges, outlining the shape. When Ms. Sinclair first saw it, the triangle appeared to be over a high-rise building at the intersection of 10th Street and Crosstown Avenue. She couldn't say what distance it actually was away from her, but it appeared big. She said she then looked away because she was concentrating on driving west on Crosstown, but when she looked up again, it was moving -- fast.

"It just, like, zipped to Jewel (grocery store), then it zipped to over by Colona Road," Ms. Sinclair said.

She stopped her car at the intersection of Crosstown and 10th Street and got out to have a better look.

"I decided I was intrigued at this point," Ms. Sinclair said. "Then I looked up, and it was gone." The whole episode only took three or four minutes, she said. The whole time she observed the object, she did not hear anything like the sounds of jet engines or helicopter blades. It appeared to stay the same distance away from her the whole time.

"I heard nothing, I heard nothing at all," Ms. Sinclair said.

And apparently neither did anyone else. Local and federal authorities, including the National Weather Service, the Federal Aviation Administration and Quad City International Airport said they received no reports of anything odd in the sky during that time.

Ms. Sinclair said she did not report it either. "I was just so taken aback by it," she said.

She did tell some of her co-workers about it, though. Jokes about little green men ensued.

"You laugh, but stranger things happen," she told them.

The next day, Ms. Sinclair went out at the same time, but did not see anything. There wasn't a second show. She said Wednesday that she's not on any medications, had not had any alcohol, nor suffered any recent blows to the head. Many officials, and some local astronomers, also could not or, in some cases, would not, explain what she saw.

"Chances are she wasn't seeing what she thinks she saw," said Black Hawk College professor Richard Harwood, who teaches geology, geography and astronomy.

He said that Saturn and Jupiter would have been visible in the sky as bright stars that morning. It's possible one of them could have appeared moving because Ms. Sinclair's vehicle was in motion.

"In her case, who can say," Mr. Harwood said. "Nobody else saw it, it's hard to tell."

When asked what she thought it was, Ms. Sinclair replied with a laugh that it was an unidentified flying object, or UFO.

But then she added, "I can't say."

"I would like to have been able to say it was a plane or a weather balloon," she said. "But I don't know. It was unidentifiable."

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http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=332103

I live in Hell, Michigan, a bit northeast of Ann Arbor. I swear I am not exaggerating any of this. I am going to give you the major and constant sighting and add a few notes afterward.

In the evening hours, at dusk a bright star appears in the western sky. It is a brilliant white star. It usually appears (I've not seen it fade in, and believe me, I watch for it) at about 25 degrees to begin with, then will move to about 40 degrees in the western sky. I, as well as my witnesses assumed it was a brilliant planet, or star, however, it MOVES. It is not stationary or in the same area, just the general position in the sky each night. It basically hovers and will slowly descend or ascend or move slightly toward magnetic north, and back. I have only seen it move away or fade away into the WNW twice. It will stay in the sky for hours. It has been appearing almost every night for no less than one month. I observe this "star" with binoculars. It seems to have a teal or blue green tinge to it sometimes. It also seems to change shape, like it is fluid. I have also noticed it form an "o"... hollow out, so to speak, keeping its brilliance but assuming a dark center. Some evenings it pulsates, bright to brighter, not strobing, or flashing on an off. If this were a satellite, it needs reprogramming as it is not stationary and it does not follow any set route. It is sporadic in its altitude and the length of visibility is not consistent. It has NOT been in the sky on average once a week.

Along with this object, orange, or reddish orange satellites are often present. They seem to approach this light from all directions. The busiest I've witnessed was one evening when I counted no less than seven smaller, different sized objects in the sky at once. Twice. So the commencement of these "fleets" from all directions occurred twice in one evening. While observing these objects through binoculars the orangish lights behave unlike anything I am accustomed to seeing in the sky.

I can focus on one and while I watch it, it will blink out at reappear still within my sight but not where it was. Almost as if I were seeing flashing lights dispersed around a larger object. I have not seen anything solid between the points were these lights appear. It is almost as if they are moving in and out of a veil. Or one step forward, two back...

I get the notion they may either protect this brighter star, or it is a homing point for them. I have also watched the smaller lights merge into one another, or meet and one just disappears. Occasionally I see someplace around the "satellite" orbs an oval display of blue/white small, definitely undetectable without binoculars, spinning at a specific distance.

Meaning these spinning ovals stay in one area. We have heard military jets zoom this area at very strange times in the very late evening into the early morning hours. One occasion got us out of bed as it sounded as though it were going to crash into the house! It made our chests vibrate and we watched in awe some kind of jet approach from east, fly over us to the west, turn and come back, circle the area toward the east again though not out of sight then take off and disappear into the southwest. It was patrolling or something....we just don't get that activity in these parts.

I have also observed this light in the eastern sky, at about forty degrees, and beginning much earlier than the western sky object. This, too, has the orange/red satellites but not as many. About six weeks ago after checking on it (eastern sight) it suddenly, and without noise quickly and purposefully moved off to the north until it was lost behind the tree line. It returned later that evening around one AM.

This past Saturday (March 17) I did a check out my bedroom window (east) as there was the regular activity in the other direction already. To my amazement I watched a bluish/green/white light approaching just above the tree line moving due south and descending behind the trees. I was using my binoculars although they wouldn't have been needed as it was that close (less than quarter mile) and I could still see it moving just behind the trees and then it stopped. I was sober. If I'd not seen it in the sky I would have convinced myself that a car was driving in the woods (where there isn't a road) and stopped with its lights on.

A curious note about this light is that it was elongated vertically. Within one minute a second followed the same course however once it went behind the tree line it was just gone. The first could be seen pulsating in the trees for thirty minutes.

I live in a residential but rural area (we are on a lake) and I know my neighbors are already wondering who the heck I'm watching so I cannot observe for long stretches of time, fearing someone will call the police. I have to check throughout the night.

This is a very very small town and an "everyone knows everyone" community. I know I cannot be the only person on this lake witnessing these events. The glowing star is out again tonight. I watch the constellations moving past it. I know it isn't a plane. I don't sleep too well anymore. I am amazed, intrigued and want to know what is going on!

I'm sorry for the length of this letter. I have other details and events I would love to share but I'm not sure how this will be taken so I'll stop with this.

Peace

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