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- MEPS get to grips with close encounters of the third kind.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- "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.
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- The Guardian. 2nd December 1993.
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