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e c. F-.com the Defence 11inistry the reports go to a Government
Organisation l:mo.,.:·n D.S· the Centre Nationale d 1Etude Spatial.
d. The reports are also fed into a computer so that they can.
be'addcd to the statistics of the problem".
\le \-lere also informed that 11so far the military have never fonnd an-ything
of D.nt1tjgressive nature fro:n the sightings 9 nol' have the scientists been
able to expla:i.n the phenomena". .
4. It is not unlikely that there 'trill be further Parliamentary Questions
about UFos especially as the subject ~;as debated recently in the United Nations
and I have been asked to obtain the follO\>~:.lng information:
a. a tl·anscript of the bro.:1dcast said to have beeh made by
•tr .Galley in 1974. Soo1e of the letters we have received allege
that 11thc French Air Hinistcr officially confirmed that so-called
flying saucers ~xis~"·
b. Hhat the vie\-15 of the French Hinintry of Defence really are
on the subj cct of unidentified flying objects ... an0. confirmation
that the procedure as outlined at para 3 aboe is still followed
when reports of UFOs are received from the public-
c. \fuat tho nature of the in,:ec.tigations is at the Centre
liationalc d'Etudc Spat'ial and \'lhether these studien are c:m-
ducted under the dir:-"!ction of 1-lonsieur Claude l?oh.er •
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.5o I should be most grateful for y•;ur comments as soon as convenient please.
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