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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…
I extremely high exhaust velocity, the mass expelled is low and expulsion can be continued
I for a very long time. Such particle beam generators that can be loaded on board satellites
have been developed for space warfare in the former USSR (at the von Ardenne
laboratory in Soukhoumi, Georgia) and the United States, especially at the Argonne
I National Laboratory. At present, ofcourse, these beams are much less powerful than
what would be necessary here, but they are already of interest as low-power engines once
out of the proximity of planets. The U.S. probe "Deep Space 1,,, which should narrowly
I miss asteroid 1992 KD on July 29, 1999, was equipped with an engine of this type.
Other methods ofspace propulsion are being studied very actively: nuclear propulsion
using fission ("NERVA/' "ORION," and "DAEDALUS,, projects) and, more recently,
I fusion, which would offer respective gains of one and over two orders of magnitude in
comparison with the best engines at present. Beyond this, the use of power stored in the
form ofantimatter - which has become credible since CERN [European Council for
I Nuclear Research) created an anti hydrogen atom and demonstrated the means for storing
I
it - will offer gains even one hundred times greater.
This is why a growing number of research centers are doing work on this subject: the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the Air Force Astronautical
I Laboratory (Edwards Air Force Base), where antigravitation is also being studied,
according to the June 10, 1996 issue ofJane 's Defence Weekly. The latter topic is
reportedly also being pursued in Great Britain and in the CIS [Commonwealth of
Independent States].
I 8.1.1.3 Use of Planetary or Stellar Impulse
I Closer to our current technologies, even though, strictly speaking, it does not have to
do with propulsion, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory imagined, in 1961, that a spacecraft
. slingshotting off the potential [gravity] wells ofsuitably selected planets could attain higher
I and higher speeds without expending any energy. This method is now routinely used for
missions to the remote planets in our [solar] system. One can then envision that by using
"reflections,,, not only by planets but also by stars, as Dyson proposed in 1963,
I considerable speeds could be attained (limited only by escape velocities) and interstellar
distances could be crossed using relatively little energy at the price, ofcourse, of the time
necessary for the departure and arrival slingshots
I This method would lead to interstellar voyage lengths probably figuring in thousands of
years, thus with an order of magnitude greater than lengths anticipated for the envisioned
antimatter propulsion.
I 8.1.1.4 Conclusion Regarding Travel
I To sum up, for travel both in the atmosphere and in space, we can formulate reasonable
hypotheses o n flight without any apparent means of lift in the first case and on the crossing
ofgreat distances, up to an interstellar scale, in the second.
I 8. 1.2 The Shutting Off of Land Vehicle Engines
I To explajn this phenomenon, which has been reported frequently abroad, it is necessary
to consider a remote action. [Since] no beams of light appear to be associated with these
engine , immobilizations we can imagine radio-frequency radiation, such as microwaves,
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