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UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 94 pages · text from the file's own layer

This file, held under a National Aeronautics and Space Administration title, contains an English translation of the 1999 COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?", produced by a French association of former IHEDN auditors and first published in a special issue of VSD. It opens with a 2001 letter from Carol Rosin arranging a meeting. The report covers pilot testimonies, close encounters in France, GEPAN/SEPRA research and defense implications. Attached material includes a Leslie Kean article, a NARCAP description and a news item about a UFO at Barnaul airport.

From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A. Released with redactions. NARA Record Group 255, catalogue id 413270. This file contains an independent report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA (previously published in the French magazine VDS in 1999), which details the results of a study by the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence. The file also includes a letter from Carol Rosin in which she notes that she was spokesperson for von Braun during the last years of his life.

  • p. 2 …Since I closed down the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space a few years…
  • p. 10 …our national efforts and to indispensable international cooperation. IHEDN will then have well served the nation…
  • p. 30 …I 6.2.3.Assessment and Results of the Cooperation with the Gendarmerie Nationale ISince 1974…
  • p. 31 …I Cooperation agreements have been established, particularly with various bodies that can benefit in return from…
  • p. 49 …He has cooperated with the ufological associations, giving their address and phone number I· to witnesses…
  • p. 54 …strategy, - participating in the establishment of regional cooperation agreements with interested European and foreign countries. It…
  • p. 68 …I- participating in the establishment of sectorial cooperation agreements with other countries. 5) Initiate diplomatic demarches…
  • p. 75 …Later, a former Navy petty officer from I the 2nd Marine Division, Bill Cooper, "revealed" that…
  • p. 88 …The writers recommend that France establish "sectorial cooperation agreements with i nterested European and foreign countries…
  • p. 89 …is o ne of ma ny supporters of in ternational cooperation on UFOs. Of the French…
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