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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.

  • p. 10 …director of the lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nation ale (Institute for Advanced National Defense…
  • p. 27 …Did the red ball come from space? Advancing with I caution, monitoring their nuclear radiation detectors…
  • p. 36 …advanced Icybernetics. The other French cases ofclose encounters described in Chapter 4 also strongly suggest the…
  • p. 37 …The most advanced uses I magnetohydrodynamics, abbreviated MHD, but many others can also be considered. We…
  • p. 38 …advanced - should not be ruled out a priori. In fact,. the space phase of the travel…
  • p. 41 …us, but then the probability is that this advance figures in the thousands of years or…
  • p. 42 …number of major advances. Ofcourse, on analysis, a good proportion of the sightings have proven completely…
  • p. 43 …advanced civilization. It is therefore necessary to look farther, to the stars, I but the closest…
  • p. 44 …advanced, it supposedly disappeared from earth (nuclear war, radioactivity, pollution; etc.) but resettled in the solar…
  • p. 51 …In the case in question, we can onJy advance hypotheses formulated on the basis of the…
  • p. 52 …IThe advances that have been made in the conquest of space and in the development of…
  • p. 55 …to constantly monitor the sky and he now has more and more advanced weapons systems capable…
  • p. 58 …All of these subjects are, on the whole, more advanced than Ithe technical problems presently under…
  • p. 59 …I In carrying out the study, he examined the photos taken in 1983 by the IRAS…
  • p. 60 …The state of advancement of the local populations will likely dictate the manner of obtaining, as…
  • p. 63 …send remote-controlled androids in advance in order to assess the reactions that such an intrusion…
  • p. 64 …With the ground prepared in advance, contacts could, for example, be established discretely with selected Iindividuals…
  • p. 65 …and even far more advanced. Nothing allows us to rule out the possibility that, why not…
  • p. 67 …It is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitors. Advanced as I of 1947 by certain U.S…
  • p. 70 …Biologists, for their part, are making rapid advances in understanding the chemical mechanisms that give rise…
  • p. 71 …the contact was already made via telecommunications, or else that the most advanced civilizations made the…
  • p. 78 …One can understand that advancing knowledge of the UFO phenomenon, at the risk of Isucceeding, would…
  • p. 79 …I 7.2.2.3.1 Under these circumstances, if we advance the hypothesis that political…
  • p. 81 I I Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of th…
  • p. 82 …the very serious-minded Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale French Institute for Advanced National…
  • p. 86 …the very serious-minded Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale French Institute Ifor Advanced National…
  • p. 90 …intelligence, deliberate flight control, and advanced energy management." In the 1950s, pilots and crews reported seeing…
  • p. 92 …November of 2000, and is dedicated to the advancement of aviation safety issues as they apply…
Iinto the domain of the unexplained.
The gendarmerie and then GEPAN conducted an in-depth investigation including
numerous interviews with the witness and his neighbors. The expert's appraisals of the Iground - the talcing of soil and plant samples fo llowed by analyses - showed unequivocally
that it really was a case ofan unidentified heavy metal object that had actually landed on Ithe platform ofearth. The analyses of plant samples taken at the site indicated that they
were not dealing with any type of [known] aircraft, or even a helicopter or military drone,
which were hypotheses that were considered and analyzed. IThe vegetation at the landing site - a sort ofwild alfalfa - had been profoundly marked
and affected by an external agent that considerably altered the photosynthesis apparatus.
In fact, the chlorophyll, as well as certain amino acids of the plants, exhibited significant Ivariations in concentration, variations which decreased with the distance [of the plants]
from the center of the mechanical track. These effects disappeared completely two years
later, thus revealing a specific and particular type of traum·a. According to Professor IMichel Bounias of the ecology and plant toxicology laboratory oflNRA [National
Institute for Agronomic Research] who performed the analyses, the cause of the profound
disturbances suffered by the vegetation present in that ecosystem could likely be a Ipowerful pulsed electromagnetic field in the high frequency (microwave) range. Studies
and research are still being conducted in regard to this case and numerous leads have been
explored. None of these leads has-been able to satisfy all of the conditions that would Ienable the object that landed in Trans-en-Provence on January 8, 1981, to be identified
with certainty, and this is all the more true with respect to the detennination ofits origin.
I4.4 Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle [Department], the so-called "Amaranth" Case
(October 21, 1982) IGEPANISEPRA investigation
The "Amaranth" Case concerns the sighting during the day by a witness, a cellular
biology researcher, of an object that hovered above his garden for 20 minutes. The Itestimony recorded by the gendarmerie less than 5 hours after the sighting is summarized
as follows:
- The witness was in his garden in front of his house at around 12:35 a.m. after work Ion October 21, 1982; he saw a flying craft, which he first took for an airplane, come from
the southeast. He saw a shiny craft. He indicated that there were no clouds, that the sun
was not in his eyes, and that visibility was excellent. The craft's speed ofdescent was not Ivery great, and he thought that it was going to pass over his house. Once he realized that
the trajectory of the craft was bringing it toward him, he backed up 3 to 4 meters. This
craft, which was oval in shape, stopped approximately one meter from the ground and Iremained hovering at this height for about 20 minutes.
- The witness stated that since he had looked at his watch, he was absolutely certain
about the length of time the craft hovered. He described the craft as follows: ovoid in Ishape, approximately I min diameter, 80 cm thick, the bottom half metallic in appearance
like polished beryllium and the upper half the blue-green color of the inner depths of a Ilagoon. The craft did not emit any noise, nor did it seem to emit any heat, cold, radiation,
magnetism, or electromagnetism. After 20 minutes, the craft suddenly rose straight up, a
trajectory which it maintained until it was out of sight. The craft' s departure was very Ifast, as if it were under the effect of strong suction. The witness indicated, finally, that
there were no tracks or marks on the ground and the grass was not charred or flattened,
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