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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.
“The Advance”28 pages
"Concrete problems are raised that call for a response in terms ofaction" by General Bernard Norlain, IFormer director of the lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nation ale (Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies I(IBEDN)] When General Letty visited me in March I995 at my office at IHEDN to explain to me his project for creating a new committee for study of UFOs, I assured him of my interest and referred him to the management ofthe IHEDN Auditors Association (AA), which • Igave him its support. Knowing that some twenty years earlier the AA had produced and published a preliminary report on the subject in its bulletin, it was but time to update it. Denis Letty seemed to me to be the perfect one to spearhead this task~ one month Iearlier, in February, he had organized, within the framework of the Ecole de l' Air [Air Force Academy] Alumni Association, a conference on unidentified aerospace phenomena. Before a large public, some ofour comrades, former pilots, spontaneously related their Iencounters with UFOs. The person in charge of studying these phenomena at the CNES then presented his results, and a well-known astronomer described a scientifically acceptable version of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. I The fields of knowledge affected by the UFO phenomenon are very diverse, and General Letty was able to find within the AA, but on the outside as well, numerous Iexperts whose efforts h~ coordinated. The list of high-level civilian and military degrees of the members of his committee is very impressive: officers, engineers, and specialists in physics, life sciences, and social sciences were able to deal with all aspects of the study. I This is not a purely academic study. Concrete problems are raised, and not only for civilian and military pilots, that call for a response in tenns of action. The makeup of ICOMETA [Committee for In-Depth Studies], which is the name ofthe committee, took these into account. Almost all of its members have, or had during the course of their careers, important responsibilities in defense, industry, teaching, research or various Icentral administrations. I express the wish that the recommendations of COMETA, which are inspired by good Isense, will be examined and implemented by the authorities of our country. The first report of the AA favored the creation within CNES of the only civilian government agency known in the world dedicated to the study of UFOs. May this new report, which is much more in-depth, give new impetus to our national efforts and to indispensable international cooperation. IHEDN will then have well served the nation and, perhaps, humanity. "Consider all oftile hypotheses" I I I
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