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MEPS get to grips with close encounters of the third kind.
An official report was put before MEPs yesterday saying that
people should not rule out the theory "that aliens have
established a base in the asteroid belt".
Europeans were advised by the report, however, to treat with
circumspection the sightings of triangular shaped UFOs which
appear to have showed up around Liege, moving at high speed on
the radar screens of the Belgian air force.
The European Parliament, more often associated with building
white elephants than seeing pink ones, is treating seriously the
report on unidentified flying objects prepared by Tullio Regge,
an Italian socialist MEP and eminent physicist.
He wants the Commission to set up a European UFO Observation
Centre to collect information about sightings by the public, the
military and scientific institutions throughout the EU. Mr Regge
is scathing about fraudsters who alarm people by perpetrating
hoaxes, using airships with sophisticated electronics "capable
of reflecting radar waves with a displacement that stimulates the
Doppler effect".
He does not believe the claims of a Professor Silanov that
the Russians used telepathy to communicate with 10ft aliens who
emerged from a banana-shaped flying saucer in a park in Voronezh,
eastern Russia, in 1989. But Mr Regge is impressed by the
findings of the statefunded Service for Assessment of Atmospheric
Re-entry Phenomena in Toulouse, France. It cannot establish a
scientific explanation for 40 per cent of the cases it
investigates.
"The lack, perhaps temporary or accidental, of an explanation in
no way allows us to regard a sighting as certain proof or even
an indication that aliens exist, with technological capabilities
vastly superior to our own. "However, scientists still have a
duty to continue researching into these events," he says in the
report commissioned by the parliament's energy, research and
technology committee.
The Guardian. 2nd December 1993.