UFOs - The French Connection - Gildas Bourdais LIVE
Analysis Summary
Summary
The speaker is Gildas Boude, a prominent UFO researcher, discussing the history of UFO studies in France. He explains that in March 2007, France announced it would disclose its official UFO studies online. This move followed a history of fluctuating interest in UFO research, including the closure of a UFO study service in 2004. Boude highlights the Cometa report from 1999, which argued for renewed UFO studies, and the eventual reopening of the French service in 2005. He notes that France has a different attitude towards UFOs compared to the U.S., with official support for research. The impact of these developments has led to increased public interest and ongoing debates about UFOs in France.
Program Intelligence Analysis
The presentation discusses the evolution of UFO studies in France, highlighting the government's recent decision to disclose official UFO files online. It emphasizes the ongoing debate within the scientific community regarding the existence of UFOs and the implications of the Cometa report.
France is sending a signal to the US government that patience with the truth embargo is near an end.
Gildas Boude
“France is sending a signal to the US government that patience with the truth embargo is near an end.”
Eve Sier
Jacques Patin
“We are not going to find any new spectacular case because the really spectacular cases were actually had been already published.”
Managed by: French National Center for Space Studies (CNES)
study and publish findings on UFO sightings and phenomena
France is sending a signal to the US government that patience with the truth embargo is near an end.
The French government announced it would disclose all its official UFO studies on the internet.
The French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) announced they had 1,650 cases and over 6,000 testimonies to be published.
The Cometa report stated that UFOs are real, probably extraterrestrial, and highlighted a problem of UFO secrecy in the United States.
The French UFO studies service was closed in 2004 due to backlash from the scientific community.
28% of the UFO files in France are classified as unidentified.
There are likely secret files related to UFOs in France, including a missing file from a close encounter in 1954.