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5 events here, 1974 to 2016, in date order.
Asked about UFOs by journalist Jean-Claude Bourret on France Inter, Minister of the Armed Forces Robert Galley said something remained unexplained, urged an open mind toward witnesses, and noted that his ministry had collected reports since 1954. The press called it a first for a sitting minister.
Yves Sillard, a former director-general of France's space agency CNES, published a 2007 book on unidentified aerospace phenomena. He told a regional daily the extraterrestrial idea should be weighed seriously and objectively but remained only a hypothesis.
France's space agency CNES, through its UAP study unit GEIPAN, hosted a two-day international workshop in Paris on better ways to collect and analyze UAP reports. Scientists, gendarmerie and air force officials and outside researchers presented; GEIPAN published the papers and slides.
On two straight nights, unidentified drones were seen over Paris sites including the Eiffel Tower, the U.S. Embassy and the Interior Ministry. Police opened an investigation; a government spokesman said hobbyists were the likely operators.
An Air France A320 from Barcelona descending toward Charles de Gaulle met a drone the captain estimated passed about five meters from the left wing; the co-pilot flew a manual avoidance. France's BEA classed it as a serious incident and opened an investigation.
