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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…
Iluminous, which has frequently been observed around unknown objects). As for the
magnetic field, it can be created as it is for boats.. However, propulsion is much more I·difficult to achieve in air, since, in that case1 it must not only propel the aircraft but first of
all compensate for its weight. The electrical and magnetic fields required are therefore
much stronger than for a _naval ship and, in practice, obtaining the very strong fields that Iare essential is scarcely conceivable without having recourse to superconductive wirings.
Still theoretical until a only few years ago, their use in an aerial vehicle has been a credible
prospect since 1991 , with the discovery of superconductors capable of operating at near Iambient temperatures.
Propulsion in the atmosphere without propellers or jet engines is, therefore, completely
possible in principle with MHD, and the calculations show that the power necessary is not, Iin certain cases, incompatible with our current aeronautical engines. The fact that no
cooling system has been seen (or heard) on the objects that have been observed close up
can be explained as long as the length of the craft's flights does not. exceed a few dozen Iminutes. Furthermore, other motors that we already use - electric motors, from energy
stored onboard or flywheels if they are not yet powerful enough - would not need immediate
cooling, which duly proves that this problem is not insurmountable. INumerous witnesses have been struck by the silence accompanying the maneuvers of
the objects, which do not create a "bang" even at supersonic speeds (cf. Part 1, Chapters
1, 2, and 3). :MHD propulsion could account for this silence: preliminary experiments in Inoise reduction by eliminating the wake and shock wave, albeit under very special
conditions, are encou raging.
There has been extensive work on the different aspects of MHD propulsion of aircraft Iabroad: in the United States at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (NY), and
according to the journal New Scientist (February 1996), in Great Britain and in Russia.
To sum up, based on the current state of our knowledge, an MlID aircraft model is Iconceivable in the short term, while the creation ofa craft having the same movement
capabilities as the aerial vehicles described by the witnesses seems quite· likely to us within
a few dozen years. For the time being, only the quasi absence of perceptible air flow and Inoise while hovering close to the ground pose problems.
I8.1.1.2 Other Propulsion Methods
In a vacuum, the absence or scarcity of molecules or atoms prevents current flow in the Imedium as well as the projection of a mass of sufficient substance pulled from this
medium. MlID propulsion is therefore not possible, and it is necessary to formulate other
hypotheses. Jet propulsion by means of chemical reactions, comparable to our rocket Iengines - even though its performance is more advanced - should not be ruled out a
priori. In fact,. the space phase of the travel of unknown objects takes place very far from
sight. IIn addition, skins for stealth purposes render them invisible to telescopes and radars
beyond a few lcilometers or a few dozen kilometers. Consequently, at these distances,
these objects could very well use classic propulsion systems without being detected. IMainly, then, problems with respect to power consumption and mass to be expelled are
raised, but the method reviewed below in 8. 1.1.3 would enable these problems to be
partially solved. IMore advanced technologically are propulsion systems that call for very high velocity
exhaust - a considerable fraction of the speed of light - of particle beams. Due to the
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