MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

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MG- No. Since 1970 we ha·ve sent back to the ~PA all the statallients and each
~ there is n etat.ment c~ something extraordinary happens, we c~tinue to
send it to. them both through the pilots and through the gendarmerie.. But the
Air Force considered, before 1970, that as there was, within the framework
of its Air Defence mission, n~ danger, you see that it is not their mission
after all to study these phenomena on the scientific level - we consider that
. that is tho role of. the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) where people
_ sl\ch as M Poher, are carrying out a study which seems to us to be quite
interesting to foll~w. But it does not come within ot~ province. Conaeq~entl~,
we have no direct contact! though, I repeat, we make a contribution. Every
tim~ something appears, we send it to tl~t specialist body which is working,
basically,on behalf of the nation.
I- How~ver, Minister, unidentified space objects in French air space seems
to concern ~tio~ da!cnce?
MG- Yes, that does concern national defence and I would say that that is
why ~e are fo!.lo'tring this question to try and see if a:n:y correlations can be
established. And I would say that, personally, I am rather interested in this
phenomena of the correlations which M Poher has eA~lained, between the
variations of the magnetic field and the passage of UFOs. There are a number
of relatively disturbing phenomena which may, one day, have an explanation
wllich is not an explanation of a S!)ecific flying object, which !l'..a.y be m~gnetic
phenomena. But for the moment, we are obliged to recognise that there is
something there which we do not understand. There is also the quite impressive
increase in visual observations - I shall not go into descriptions which your
listeners know, since many of them coincide - but the visual observations of
luminous phenomena which are sometimes s,pherical, sometimes dvoid 6tc, and...
which are characterised by extraordinarily swift movements, all th~sa are, I