Former Arizona governor Fife Symington has finally acknowledged that the mass UFO sighting in Phoenix that he aggressively debunked ten years ago was in fact real. He now admits that he even saw the large triangular spacecraft the evening of the Phoenix Lights incident. "It was dramatic. And it couldnt have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape," Symington said. France opens up its UFO files- 22 March 2007 France became the first country to open its files on UFOs on March 22 when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1600 sightings spanning five decades. The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists. "It is a world first," says Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of "non-identified aerospatial phenomena." Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption.