European Parliament: Committee backs motion for EU-wide UFO study agency, never funded
On 1 December 1993 the European Parliament considered a resolution, first proposed in 1991 by Belgian deputy Elio Di Rupo, that would let the French agency SEPRA investigate UFOs throughout the European Community; the research committee chaired by Tullio Regge approved the motion, but the agency was never created.
Background
The European Parliament considered a resolution enabling the French UFO agency, the Service d'Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée Atmosphérique (SEPRA), to carry out UFO investigations throughout the member countries of the European Community. The resolution had first been proposed in 1991 by Belgian deputy Elio Di Rupo in the wake of the Belgian UFO wave, to set up an all-European agency to study UFO reports. The Parliament's committee on industry, external trade, research and energy, chaired by physicist Tullio Regge, held several meetings on the proposal in consultation with SEPRA's Jean-Jacques Velasco and approved the motion for a resolution. However, the Parliament lacked the votes to implement and fund it, the agency was never created, and SEPRA had funding problems of its own. Eberhart cites his own report in IUR (March/April 1994) and Pinotti. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.