The recent buzz about Russian UFO files being released has not only drummed up quite a bit of discussion about UFO secrecy and declassified government files, but also more concern over whether or not we’ll see official US disclosure any time soon (I say this in spite of how much secret UFO information our government has already released… but more on that later).

For me, it has also revamped an interest in reading over declassified UFO documents produced by foreign countries around the world. However, when I set out to do a little perusing in this manner today, I was surprised to find how difficult a variety of the resources provided by various organizations regarding their UFO files were to find. Therefore, I decided to take a little time to gather several of the most recent countries to have disclosed UFO documents (dating back to around 2007) and provide a round up for Gralien Report Readers. Below, you’ll find a variety of links to declassified government UFO files from countries around the world, and probably more once-secret UFO documents than you could ever hope to read!

France became the first country to release their UFO documents in an e-format available to the masses. In the last 2 decades of the 20th century, France was the only country with officially paid UFO investigators, employed by CNES’s UFO section GEPAN, later known as SEPRA and now as GEIPAN (essentially translating to mean “Group for Studies and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena”). The CNES website has a page dedicated to their UFO archives, which can be viewed here (NOTE: This page is translated using Google’s translation function. The original text can be viewed here).

Canada also released their UFO files beginning in the mid-2000′s (a tip of the hat to Chris Rutkowski of the Canadian UFO Report for this info). To view these files, visit this link and click “search” in the left hand column. If you don’t know the specific item you’re looking for, or would rather browse by the four branches of the Canadian Government that have performed investigations, simply scroll to the bottom of the page and select one in the dropdown beneath “Browse by Record Group”.

Britain, whose UFO files were released this year (2009), has begun an effort to make their vast collection of files available periodically. The existing files, as well as the most up-to-date additions, can be browsed at National Archives website.

Brazil also joined the ranks of several countries around the world in May of this year, with the Brazilian Government disclosing over 600 new pages of previously classified documents, covering UFO reports and military investigations from 1970 to 1979. They can be downloaded here.

Denmark also released a PDF of their UFO files in 2009, available for download at their website. At the Denmark UFO Archive website, a fascinating photograph of what appears to be a “jellyfish” UFO is shown. The Google translation for this page can be viewed here, or you may view the original text at the official website.

Although news is circulating that Russia’s Navy has just released their UFO documents, no electronic files appear to have been made available as-of-yet. However, by clicking here you can read a transcript of an interview with Boris Blitsky, science correspondent to the program “Voice Of Russia”. It was aired as part of the feature “Science And Engineering In The Commonwealth” during Voice Of Russia’s news broadcast on October 23, 1997. In this interview, Blitsky describes a Ministry of the Interior report of a UFO dating back to December 26, 1830!

But what about the United States? Many keep hoping that Barack Obama will finally push for release of secret UFO documents held by American organizations. However, according to British researcher Nigel Watson, there are already plenty of official US government files regarding UFOs that have been made available to the public, though they are less well known.

Nigel Watson pointed out several of the major UFO archives available on the Internet in Beyond magazine (No 5, April 2007) in his article “Government UFO Files: What do they really believe?”. According to Watson, although the United States of America hasn’t “officially” de-classified a large number of UFO documents, we still offer the most official websites that contain large amounts of UFO documentation. These include sites run by NASA, the FBI, the US Navy, the US Defense Department, the CIA and the National Security Agency. A list of these resources can be found here.

Spain, Chile, and Peru all released their files in 2007 also, and although a variety of informative articles about these releases appear in various places on the web, I haven’t been able to locate them directly. If you should happen to find resources where these de-classified files can be downloaded or viewed otherwise, please email me at info@gralienreport.com.

For other selections of de-classified government goodness, check out these resources:

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