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c.. From the Defence 1·1inistry the reports go to a Government
Organisation k:lO't:·n as. the Centre Nation~le d'Etude Spatial.
d. The reports are also fed into a computer so that they can,
be'hddcd tp the statistics of the problem11 •
Ue were also informed that 11so far the military have never found anything
of an~~gressive nature from the sightings 9 nor have th~ scientists been
able tu explain the phenomena". . ·
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4. It is not unlikely that there 'irlill be further Parliamentary Questions
about UFos especially as the subject ~:as depated recently in the United Nations
and I have been asked to obta~.n the follO\'Iing information:
a. a transcript of the bro.:1.dcast said to have beeh made by
1-!r .Galley in 1974. Son1e of the letters we have received allege
. that 11the French Air Hinistcr officially confirmed that ao-called
flying saucers exis~"·
b. ~!ha.t the ·views of the French Hinistry of Defence really are
on the subject of unidentified flying objects- an~ confirmation
that the procedu1·e as outlined at para 3 aboe is c.till fullo·.oted
when reports of UFOs are received from the public.
c. \ihat the nature of the invebt~gations is at the Centre
liationalc d'Etude Suat"ial illld \thether these studiea are Clltl-
ductcd under the di;,1ction of Honsieur Claude Porter.
5o I should be most grateful for y0ur comments as Goon as convenient please.
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