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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
advisable to eliminate here and now. PART I Facts and Testimonies I Before going further, it seems worthwhile to us to present several facts and testimonies I that in themselves justify the interest of the in-depth study that we are going to develop below: - three testimonies of French civilian and military pilots who encountered UFOs in flight, - five major aeronautical cases in the world, I - three sightings frQm the ground, - four cases ofclose encounters in France. I These few examples are among the hundreds of remarkable, that is to say credible and well-documented, cases observed around the world in recent decades. None of these cases has been explained, whereas the majority ohimes the investigations enable the origin I of the phenomena observed by the witnesses to be determined; we will give two significant examples of this. I Chapter 1 - Testimonies of French Pilots Three French pilots who encountered UFOs in flight came to testify before the committee. Their testimonies are all the more interesting because they can be eva1uated I better than other aerial phenomena since they pertain to the aeronautic world. I 1.1 M. Giraud, Mirage IV pilot (March 7, 1977). I The sequence of events of this incident was reconstructed from radio exchanges between the pilot and the controller, which are routinely recorded and kept for a specific period of time in accordance with the procedure in force at all control centers. The I incident occurred on March 7, 1977, at around 2100 hours local time during the Dijon flyover when the Mirage IV was returning, the automatic pilot engaged, to Luxeuil after a I night mission. [The aircraft was] at an altitude of9600 m and flying at a speed of"Mach 0.9." The flight conditions were very good. The pilot (P), Herve Giraud, and his navigator (N) observed a very bright glow at "3 o'clock" (time code) from their aircraft, I at the same altitude, coming on a collision course and approaching very rapidly. We will designate it "assailant" (A1) in the rest of the account. P queried the Contrexeville military radar station that controlled them to ask whether they had a radar contact on the I aircraft coming towards them. In fact, P and N thought that it was an air defense interceptor, as is currently being used, that was seeking to intercept their aircraft to then identify it with its identification beacon. I The radar controller (C), who did not have a corresponding radar contact on his scope, gave a negative response and asked the pilots to check their oxygen. This request on the part of the controller is a standard emergency procedure; it shows that the controller is so I I
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