French open national UFO files

Stumbled across this and found it mildly interesting: the French have opened up their UFO files to the public.

Translated from CNES Site
(thanks to Google, this portion of the site is in French)
Welcome on the gate of the GEIPAN Opening of the gate of information of the GEIPAN This site will allow, in the long term and in the respect of the private life of the citizens, to place at the disposal of the public the whole of the data collected since 30 years by the GEIPAN on the not identified aerospace phenomena. Right now meadows of 25 percent of the cases observed are available and consultable, which represents the majority of the 20 last years observations. The site will be regularly updated progressively with the validation of the data, including the photographic and video documents which are in the course of digitalization. The GEIPAN thanks you for your patience and hopes that this site will answer waitings of the majority of the people interested by the phenomenon UFO.
Posted 22-03-0007

Click Recherche, and brush up on your French (or have Google translate for you...)

From their site:
Since 1977, Gepan and then Sepra have collected close to 6,000 reports from eyewitnesses, mostly on the ground but about 6% who observed phenomena from aircraft.Once reported events have been grouped into observation cases, about 28% remain unexplained after investigation and analysis.

The cases are classified A to D. A is conclusively identified, B is probably identified, C is unidentified due to insufficient information, and D is unidentified.

An example of a "Class A", auto-translated for me by Google:
On October 11, 1992 between 21h30 and 22h30 two independent witnesses observe an oval form blanchâtre which moves slowly above Marseilles. The two witnesses take the precaution to film their observation. The investigations of the 2 brigades will show quickly that the witnesses observed by far an airship based with Marignagne and accomplishing promotional flights of night. The data of the flight are perfectly coherent with the description of the witnesses.
Official Documents

An example of a "Class D", again auto-translated by Google

Witness continued by an orange ball emitting a beep beep stridentLe December 1, 1979 around 7 p.m. 35, a witness, butcher of his state, returns his day to the market. He suddenly sees on his left a large very luminous ball, whose color passes from the white to the red while passing by orange and the yellow. This ball emits a strident noise of type beep beep. The witness is very frightened and accelerates whereas the phenomenon follows it during approximately 2 km the vehicle rolling to approximately 70 - 80 km/h. At the end of approximately 2 km, the phenomenon disappears brutally. The witness underwent a sufficiently important nervous shock to cause an obstruction of the bowels to him. No other witness could be met and the investigation did not make it possible to identify the phenomenon observed.
Official Documents


Uh, did that say it scared the poop out of him? No? It obstructed his bowels? I've never had that reaction.