France will publish the "UFO archive"

The French National Space Research Center plans to publish information on all “contacts with UFOs” stored in the archive of the center on the Internet. The names of those who “touched the cosmos” will not be published, so as not to incur excessive popularity on them.

Jacques Arnold, a spokesman for the National Space Research Center (CNES), told Reuters that a database of 1,600 cases of “contacts with alien civilizations” will be published in January or mid-February 2007. CNES has stored information on such cases for the past 30 years. “Part of this information is compiled on the basis of data from the gendarmerie, which records the data of witnesses, and partly on the basis of evidence from aircraft pilots,” says Arnold.

In total, the archive contains 6000 reports, often related to the same cases. It is expected to be published on the CNES website - www.cnes.fr.