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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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- not causing any turbulence on the ground either when it hovered or when it departed,
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not having left any trace on the ground.
After observing it for a period of time which was hard·for him to determine, F saw M
oscillate faster; he had the impression that M tilted slightly forward (as a helicopter does
after lift-off when it begins level flight). F saw M leave in a horizontal direction at a very
low altitude without making any noise, without leaving any trail, and at a very high speed
I and disappear on the horizon in a few seconds. F reported [the incident] to the
Gendarmerie de l'Air at the Dijon air base. He thought that other people had seen the
phenomenon but had not dared to go report it, namely, his neighbors and their cruldren,
I who reportedly made the same sighting.
This sighting by a pilot professionally well informed ofaeronautical phenomena was
never explained.
I 3.3 A Case of Multiple Witnesses at a Russian Missile Base (July 28-29, 1989)
I Heading the UFO reports declassified by the KGB in 1991 is a file relating to an army
missile base near Kapustin Yar in the region of Astrakhan, wruch was related in Marie
Galbraith's book (cf. Chapter 9.1). The English-speaking public learned ofit through the
I Muscovite journal A URA-Z of March 1993. Military personnel from two centers on the
base prepared written depositions of their visual sightings, wruch were made under good
visibility conditions. The file, which is incomplete, does not mention any possible radar
I detections. It begins with a brief summary of the case, the author of which was an
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anonymous KGB officer, followed by an account of seven written testimonies:
- Five testimonies from the first center were provided by Lieutenant Klimenko, two
corporals, and two soldiers. On the night of July 28 to 29, these military personnel sighted
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UFOs between 2215 and 2355 hours at a distance of3 to 5 km. Up to three objects were
seen simultaneously. One object silently made jerky movements, with very abrupt starts
and stops, and periods of immobility. All of the witnesses saw a fighter jet attempt to
approach one UFO, wruch escaped at lightning speed, "giving the impression that the
aircraft was hovering. " Only the noise from the aircraft was heard, whereas the UFO
I must have reached supersonic speed.
- Two other testimonies from a center near the first one concern the sighting of a UFO
from 2330 to 0130 hours at a distance ranging from a few kilometers to 300 m. This UFO
I was described by Second Lieutenant Volochine as a disk 4-5 min diameter, surmounted
by a brightly lit hemispherical dome. The second lieutenant attached a sketch of the
saucer torus deposition. The saucer sometimes moved abruptly, but soundlessly, and
I sometimes remained immobile 20-60 m above the ground. In the company of soldier
Tichaev, Volocrune saw it emitting a phosphorescent green light, hovering 300 m from
them and some 20 m above a missile depot; it illuminated this depot for several seconds
with a moving beam of light., ,
In a report that was consistent with the report of his superior, soldier Tichaev stressed
the lack of noise made by the object, even when a short distance away, which prevented
I him from confusing it with a helicopter. The two witnesses, who were joined after some
:I time by the guard team, had watched the maneuvers of the object above the center and the
surrounding area for two hours.
Chapter 4 - Close Encounters in France
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