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2015: UFOs Spotted Over Nuclear Plants In France And Belgium!

An artistic interpretation of the witness’s description of an unknown flying object above the Cattenom nuclear power station on the night of 10 November 2014 (Illu.). (Credit: grewi.de) January 20, 2015 –  EUROPE  The French government is on high alert due to a large amount of UFO sightings over nuclear power plants since October 2014. The latest sighting in France was just last week, and witnesses in Belgium spotted one in December. Most media outlets suspect that the objects are drones, but not all of the witnesses are convinced. If they are drones, the authorities say they do not know who they belong to. According to the Austrian news site ORF.at, there were 18 separate occasions UFOs were seen flying over nuclear power plants […] Read More

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2002: Project Orion

Material published on the Serpo site in August 2006 mentions a Project ORION. It allegedly is a fairly recent project that since 2002 tests alien propulsion systems at the Nevada Test Site. Other sources mention different names for such a program. See Pluto, Redlight, and Snowbird. It is possible, however, that Orion would be the more recent name. A similar program exists in Canada and is called Magnet. Project Orion also is the name of a program in France, developed by the French Ministry of Defense, for the purpose of monitoring, identifying and predicting the passage of satellites over French territory.

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2007: Bel Air man writes of UFOs in wartime

Research of WWII events uncovers the unexplained By Cassandra A. Fortin special to the sun December 9, 2007   The peculiar red orb hung motionless in the summer sky near Frederick. A boy at the time, Keith Chester vividly recalls that day in 1966. It was about 6:30 p.m. and Chester was on his way to a friend’s house. As he walked, he noticed a shiny red ball in the sky near the Catoctin Mountains. “The hair on the back of my neck stood straight up,” Chester said. “I was so scared that I ran into my neighbor’s house. I still think it was a UFO.” To this day, the 50-year-old Bel Air resident has not been able to find an explanation for the […] Read More

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Official UFO Investigations in France: the GEPAN/SEPRA Project

Appendix 1: Official UFO Investigations in France: the GEPAN/SEPRA Project For more than 20 years, the French space agency has conducted a non-military but official investigation into UFO reports. In its first phase, the project was named GEPAN and its focus was primarily on UFO reports. Subsequently, the project was renamed SEPRA and was assigned a more general responsibility for studying all atmospheric reentry phenomena. In the body of the report, we have for convenience referred to the project as “GEPAN/SEPRA.” This appendix gives a brief summary of the history, mission, operations and achievements of this project. The French space agency is known as CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales). It was founded in 1962 to conduct French space activities on a national basis and […] Read More

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1999:The French Cometa Report

On Friday July 16, 1999 an important document was published in France entitled “UFOs and Defense: What must we be prepared for?” (“Les Ovni Et La Défense: A quoi doit-on se préparer?”). This ninety-page report is the result of an in-depth study of UFOs, covering many aspects of the subject, especially questions of national defense. The study was carried out over several years by an independent group of former “auditors” at the Institute of Advanced Studies for National Defense, or IHEDN, and by qualified experts from various fields. Before its public release, it has been sent to French President Jacques Chirac and to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. THE ESSENTIAL: In its conclusion, COMETA claims that the physical reality of UFOs, under control of intelligent […] Read More

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2002: IS THERE A CASE FOR UFOs?

By Don Berliner, The Fund for UFO Research, Inc.; 2002 About the only point that can be made concerning UFOs without the risk of starting an unpleasant controversy is that they are supremely controversial. Any discussion of their nature, their origins, their significance and, indeed, their very existence, has led to long-term arguments that have yet to reach any generally agreed-upon conclusion. On the pivotal questions of their being real and of a novel nature, the reasons employed by the negative side focus on the lack of scientifically acceptable proof of the presence of a single UFO. Expert testimony, photographs and radar trackings are discounted as insufficiently scientific. And since UFOs are so often equated with extraterrestrial spacecraft, the negative side points to the […] Read More

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Firefighters and UFOs

Jim Hickman As many of you know, I have been a firefighter for over 20 years. In this report I have several incidents involving Firefighters and UFO’s. The following reports come from the Project Bluebook’s 701 unknowns and the Magonia database compiled by Jacques Vallee. Also, I recently had a chance to re-read a chapter in an old fire science textbook I had lying around the house, it’s called, A Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control by William M. Kramer and Charles W. Bahme. It is copyright (c) 1992 by Fire Engineering Books & Videos. First, on May 28, 1952; Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1:45-2:40 p.m. Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular objects–one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown– were […] Read More

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Top Physical Trace Cases – A Preliminary List

Ted Phillips, Center for Physical Trace Research Summary: The following is a preliminary list of High Strangeness cases involving physical traces associated with UFO sightings. It is not complete and will be added to as additional reports are received. These cases represent some of the high strangeness trace/landing events from a database of over 4,000 such events. Report 4/15/1930 Largentiere, France: multiple witnesses, cone-shaped, lands very close, projects beams, traces. Report 8/??/1933 Nipawin, Sask., 0700: multiple witnesses, a disc with 6 legs, occupants, 30 minutes, traces. Report 2/5/1934 Malselv, Norway: multiple witnesses, humanoids, footprints, traces. Report 12/25/45 Newland, MO: multiple witnesses, 2 minutes, house damage, traces. Report 7/11/46 Njurunda, Sweden: multiple witness, sphere, human effects, 7 ft crater liquid traces. Report 4/24/50 Varese, Italy: […] Read More