From: Rich Gauszka 

The highly hammered site is

http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_eu/france_ufos_4

France is the first country to put its entire weird sightings archive
online, said Jacques Patenet, who heads the space agency's UFO cell — the
Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena.

Their oldest recorded sighting dates from 1937, Patenet told The Associated
Press in an interview Friday. The first batch of archives went up on the
agency's Web site this week, drawing a server-busting wave of traffic.

..

Patenet singled out the January 1981 case of the saucer-shaped object that
a witness said he saw land in Trans-en-Provence, a village inland from the
French Riviera.

Some 8 feet across, the zinc-colored object made a whistling noise as it
landed. The witness later drew a picture: It resembled a wok with a lid and
legs.

"The machine stayed a few seconds on the ground and then left very
quickly but it left marks that were analyzed and allowed us to determine
that the ground had been heated up, that the object must have weighed
several hundred kilos (pounds), and that surrounding plants underwent
biological changes," said Patenet.

"So something really happened. It really defies analysis," he said.

The agency said everything in the archive would be published, except for
psychological reports about witnesses and their names.

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