-•._,.'~ ~m;W WITH M_ RODERT GA'I:·W!Y~ MINIST~ FOrt THE ARHED FORCES £N FRANCE-L~'l'J!!_;.~ -~---
~.: ~21 l'EBRUARY 1971~ AT 2030 HOURS · ~--~ - -
• Interviewer . \i\ Go --: M. ;Galley
I- Minister, you have granted France-Inter an interview which will certainly
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be significant because it is the first time that a Minister for the Armed
Forces has agreed to speak about the problem of UFOs. Do you have information
which allows you to answer the questions which the listeners are asking,
· information which we know nothing about?
MG- Well, I don't know about that, because I have spent a necessarily
. -relatively limited time on that question, though it is a question which I
must say has al~ays interested me. But •••• and consequently I cannot knew
everything that has been said during your broadcasts which I know certain
people in the Armed Forces Ministry follow assiduously. What I <ieeply
believe is that we must adopt a strict, extr~mely open attitude to these
phenomena. A certain amount of progress·pas been made in the human race by
the fact that attempts have been made to explain the inexplicable. Well,
in these air phenomena, these visual phenomena - I say no more - that are
grouped together under the term UFOs, it is certain that there are things
which are not understood and which are at present relatively unexplained. And
I shall even say that there are things today which are unexplained or poo:;:oly
explained. In 1954 a section for considering and collecting evidence on the
appearance of UFOs was set up in the Armed Forces Ministry. I ran through a
certain number of statements and these statements developed up to 1970. Thera
are about 50. Amongst the first things \.s found a report of a personal
observation by Lt Jean Demery of the 107th Arty Brigade (?B.A.) at Villacoublay,
dated 20 November 1953. There are reports by gen~es, the~e are some report
of observatious by pilots, by personnel who are air centre heads; a fair
amount of information the concentration of which was_quite disturbing in 1954.
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