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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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Imaneuvers when the disks are detected lead one to assume that they are piloted or operated by remote control. , , 5. Most witnesses describe objects with a metal surface that are circular or elliptical in shape, the upper portion ofwhich is dome shaped, flying without making any noise in a fonnation of three to nine objects ... I 7.6.2 GEPAN/SEPRA's Work I We do not have irrefutable tangible proof in the forrn of material, either whole or in fragments, that confirm the physical nature of UAP Ds and their artifact character. INevertheless, the collection and expert appraisal work carried out at GEP AN/SEPRA for over 20 years confinns the statements Genera] Twining made in 1947. I 7.6.3 French Aeronautical Cases IThe study ofFrench military aeronautical UAP D [sightings] (Orange in 1951, Tours in 1976, Luxeuil in 1977) supports General Twining's conclusions, namely the fourth one. The testimonies of the pilots do in fact lead one to assume that the objects were "either Ipiloted or operated by remote control": all of the pilots reported that it was "the object" that appeared to be moving toward them and not the other way around. Moreover, all of them considered the maneuvering abilities of the object to be far superior to those that Ithey were familiar with. I7.6.4 Cases of Close-Up UAP D Sightings in France For their part, the cases ofclose-up UAP D sightings in France are very much in Ikeeping with Twining's conclusions 4 and 5. In Trans-en-Provence (Chapter 4), the expert appraisals made at the site support the local testimony and show that the object with a metallic appearance and circular shape landed, then took offsilently within a very Ishort space of time not very far from a wall 2.5 min height. No modem aircraft is capable of these silent maneuvers, nor of this degree of precision when landing. It is hard not to imagine a piloted or remote-controlled flying machine, or else one having highly advanced Icybernetics. The other French cases ofclose encounters described in Chapter 4 also strongly suggest the existence ofan intelligent [civilization] behind the UAP Os. In the Valensole, I"Amaranth" and Cussac cases, once the witness or witnesses are brought face to face with the UAP D, everything generally happens very quickly, and the object escapes without having shown the slightest aggressiveness toward the witnesses. I 7.6.5 Foreign Cases - Conclusion IThe study of certain foreign cases leads to conclusions similar to those drawn from the French cases. One may reread in this spirit the description of the aeronautical cases presented in Chapter 2. We could also relate foreign cases ofclose encounters, such as I I I
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