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UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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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.

Ibecause it shone so intensely. Its brightness came from lights arranged in a rectangle,
changing rapidly from glue to green, to red, and to orange.
- Suddenly a bright object with an apparent diameter one half or one third of that of the Imoon exited the UFO and headed rapidly for the F-4. The pilot tried to shoot a
Sidewinder missile at the object, but at the same instant his fire control console and his Imeans of communication (radio and intercom) became inoperable. He promptly initiated a
bank and a dive, but the object changed direction and pursued the aircraft at a distance of
approximately 6 km. Finally, the object moved inside the F-4's bank and departed in order Ito reenter the UFO from which it had exited.
- A short time afterwards, an object again exited the UFO and rapidly headed straight
down to the ground. The F-4 crew waited to see it explode, but the object seemed to Itouch down gently and shine a very bright light over an area 2 to 3 km in diameter. The
crew, momentarily blinded, orbited long enough to recover their night vision before
landing at the Tehran airfield. It noted that it lost communications (radio and intercom) Iwhenever their aircraft crossed a certain zone. It should be pointed out that a civilian
aircraft also lost communications when it crossed that zone. The next day, the crew was
taken by helicopter to the place where the object had apparently landed, a dried up lake, I·but it didn' t find any trace [of the object].
An attached note from DIA was just as astonishing as the report itself; it indicated that
the information had been confirmed-by other sources and ended with this assessment: I"An outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a valid
study ofthe UFO phenomenon. "
!!:. The obiect was seen by multiple witnesses from different locations... ,
!!.:. The credibility ofmany ofthe witnesses was high (an Air Force General, qualified aircrews, and Iexperienced radar operators),
s Visual sightings were confirmed br radar,
4.. Similar electromagnetic effects (EME) were reported by three separate aircraft, I~ There were physiological e ffects on some crew members (i. e. loss of night vision due to the
brightness o[the obiect),
.f An inordinate amount ofmaneuverability was displayed by the UFOs." ·1The attempt by KJass to trivialize this case shows how solid it is.
2.4 Russia (March 21, 1990) I
This case took place at night in the Pereslavl-Zalesski region east of Moscow. It was
reported in an article by Aviation General Igor Maltsev, Air Defense Forces commander, Iwhich appeared in the newspaper Rabochaya Tribzma ("Workers' Tribune") on April 19,
1990, entitled "UFOs on Air Defense Radars" (cf the book by Marie Galbraith
referenced in Chapter 9. 1). ,IThe article mentions the dispatch ofcombat aircraft on a mission to intercept the UFOs
detected. General Maltsev, who summarized over one hundred visual sightings coHected
by unit commanders, stated: I"I am not a specialist in UFOs, and therefore I can only correlate the data and express mv own
supposition. According to the evidence o[these eyewitnesses, the UFO is a disk with a diameter from
JOO to 200 meters /320 to 650 (eets/. Two pulsating lights were positioned on its sides... Moreover, the ·1object rotated around its axis and performed an 'S-turn' flight both in the vertical and horitontal
planes. Next the UFO hovered above the ground and then flew with a speed exceeding that ofthe
modern iet fighter bv two or three times .. The obiects flew at altitudes ranging from JOO to 7000 m.
(300 to 24,000 feet/. The movement o[the UFOs was not accompanied by sound o(anr kind and was Idistinguished by its startling maneuverability. It seemed the UFOs were completelv devoid o[inertia.
In other words, they had somehow 'come to terms' with gravity. At the present time, terrestrial
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