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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.

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I 2.5 San Carlos de Bariloche (July 31, 1995)
I Source SEPRA
Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR 674, a Boeing 727 en route from Buenos Aires, was
140 km from San Carlos de Bariloche, a tourist resort in the central Andes where it was
I preparing to land.
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At that precise instant, a power outage plunged the town into darkness, and the pilot
received the order to stay on standby for a few minutes before making his final approach.
When he began his approach, the pilot noticed a strange star. At the same time, the
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control center put a second airplane that had arrived in the sector on standby. Flight AR
674 continued its approach, but when it had completed its tum and was in the ax.is ofthe
runway, an object resembling a large aircraft appeared on its right side and flew parallel to
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it! This object had three lights, one of which was red, in the middle of it. The airport
lights failed again, and the runway and approach ramp lights also went out. The airplane
on standby observed the same phenomenon from its position.
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Since the pilot could not land, he pulled up and turned again in order to reposition
himself in the ax.is of the runway. At that moment, the object, which had become
luminous, moved behind the airplane, stopped, ascended vertically, and once again
stopped. It moved back in front of the airplane before finally disappearing in the direction
of the Andes Cordillera. The crew and passengers of flight AR 674, those on the other
I airplane, the airport controllers, and some of the inhabitants of San Carlos watched this
unusual aerial ballet dumbfounded.
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This case is interesting in more than one respect:
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the sighting was corroborated by multiple independent observers both in flight and on
the ground,
- the phenomenon lasted several minutes,
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- there were different trajectories, some ofwhich closely followed those of the airplane,
- there was an observation ofan electromagnetic phenomenon (the lights of th~ town
and the airport went out) directly related to the presence of the object.
I Chapter 3 - Sightings from the Ground
I This chapter deals with sightings from the ground, two of which were reported to the
committee by direct witnesses of the phenomena observed. Here agai~ their testimonies
are all the more interesting since they pertain to the aeronautic world and the phenomena
were observed during the day.
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I 3.1 Phenomenon Observed by Numerous Witnesses at Antananarivo (August 16,
1954)
Testimony before the commitlee
Edmond Campagnac (C), a fonner artillery officer and former chief of technical
I services for Air France in Madagascar who is now retired, came to testify before the
committee. The phenomenon described below occurred on August 16, 1954, in
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