GEIPAN’s UFO archive contains more than 100,000 documents that tell bizarre tales of UFO and alien sightings. In one case, two children witnessed a spacecraft hovering over a field, with a band of black aliens running underneath it. They watched these beings get sucked up by the craft before it flew away. Later the parents and the gendarmerie went to the scene, where they found burn marks in the grass, measuring five meters in diameter. A strong odor of sulfur hung in the air for days.

What’s interesting is that only 9% of these cases have been solved, while 58% remain a mystery. Most of these sightings are nothing more than strange lights dancing in the sky. Jacques Patenet, who oversees this project, is hopeful that it will provide the scientific community with new meteorological or astronomical discoveries.

The material is the motherlode for UFO research, said Mr. Rutkowski, and it will be interesting to see if countries like the United States and Russia follow France’s lead.

Source: National Post