The sensational story that a
meeting
had taken place at the United Nations among the G8
countries concerning a possible change to a policy of
disclosure in 2009 now may have been, according to
the president of the French national UFO research
organization, "a fiction."
The only identified source of this story, Gilles Lorant,
presented
himself as an official of the French Institute of National
Higher
Defense Studies. He has now admitted that he was not, in
fact, associated with this organization. In addition, the
French UFO research organization, the FEA, has been unable
to confirm that he attended any meeting at the UN
concerning UFOs. Therefore, Mr. Lorant has left the FEA, and
the president of that organization, Michel Ribardiere, has
issued a statement to the effect that the visit was
probably "fiction." Michael Salla's report of the event also
came from Gilles Lorant, and has no independent source.
In France, such misrepresentations are illegal, and Michel
Ribardiere has issued the following additional
statement, "Considering the infiltration of many foreign UFO
organizations by unscrupulous individuals, who have
sometimes attempted to sabotage their operations, the F.E.A
reserves the right to bring this whole affair before the
courts."
Unknowncountry.com's position is this: until there is
concrete evidence of the meeting provided by one of the
alleged official participants, the assumption must be that it
may never have happened. Certainly, we hope that it did
happen, and it will lead in a good direction.
