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3 known as CNES CNES stands for the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (National Center of Space Studies).

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4 and the Condon report in 1968 Associated Press, “French Space Agency Puts UFO Files Online,” March 23, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260590,00. html.

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5 traditionally employed by that noted paper Sarah Lyall, “British U.F.O. Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth,” New York Times, May 26, 2008.

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6 by former UK Ministry of Defence official Nick Pope Nick Pope, “Unidentified Flying Threats,” New York Times, July 29, 2008.

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7 Phenomenes aerospatiaux non identifies The book was published by Le Cherche Midi, 2007.

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8 “to identify what we don’t know” http://www.eeb.org/publica tion/1999/eeb_position_on_the_precautionar.html. See also http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consu mer/library/pub/pub07_en.pdf.

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1 “to do the research, to work together” James Fox’s film I Know What I Saw includes some clips of this interview with General Letty at his home, and it also covers the COMETA Report and the work of GEIPAN.

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2 I first became aware Oscar Zambrano translated some sections about Captain Girard and Captain Fartek. The rest was written in English.

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3 our responsibility to study them seriously Interview with General Thouverez, Armees d’aujourd’hui (Armies of Today), July 2002.

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1 For twenty-one years The much longer first draft of this piece was written in French and translated by Jean-Luc Rivera. Throughout the editing process, M. Velasco and I worked in English.

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2 the incidents at Malmstrom Air Force Base Velasco is referring to the 1967 case described by Robert Salas in chapter 15 (pp. 144–45) and other sightings that took place in the Malmstrom area around the same time period.

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3 a new internal agency then called GEPAN GEPAN: Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (Group for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena).

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4 a new agency called SEPRA SEPRA: Service d’Expertise des Phenomenes de Rentrees Atmospheriques (Service of Expertise on the Phenomena of Atmospheric Reentries).

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