UFO dogfights, near misses and fighter pilots reporting disabled weapons – these are just a few of the incidents recorded by French investigators probing mysterious aerials encounters.
Pentagon officials last week released their highly anticipated dossier on UFOs – revealing more than 100 unexplained encounters with the military and not ruling out a possible alien origin.
However, the US are not the first nation to take a serious interest in UFOs – with France’s less shadowy counterpart to the Pentagon’s task force quietly continuing its own probe under the radar.
It has access to data such as military flight paths, is in direct contact with the French air force and air traffic control, and was founded in 1977 – claiming it has analyzed 8,000 encounters over the last 40 years.
For them around 4% of these encounters, more than 300, remains truly unexplained after investigation, and it notes in its mission statement that it also cannot rule out aliens.
“An absence of proof cannot be proof of absence,” the team state on their official website, and also make clear they are a “public service” rather than a security or defence organisation.
The team also made all of its files open to the public in 2007, meaning anyone can spool through their reports of the strange encounters.
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