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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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Icases a document can stand up to analyses at any given moment. 2 - With respect to a document deemed to be authentic, extracting the maximum amount of information permitting a known phenomenon to be identified or a phenomenon Ithat is a priori inexplicable to be characterized (size, position, speed, albedo, energy emitted, etc.). This phenomenon will then be compared with other unexplained Iphenomena in order to draw possible parallels. It is important to emphasize that the photographic as well as the video documents available come only from fortuitous witnesses~there are very few opportunities for Isignificant data to be exploited by reason ofsimple statistical considerations: the chances of being witness to a rare phenomenon, the likelihood of having [camera] equipment in hand ready to use, the probability of being able to make the proper adjustments and calmly Itake professional quality photographs, etc. In any case, it seems reasonable to limit in-depth investigations to. cases in which the following two conditions are met: II - The original document (negative, slide, video cassette, etc.) is available. 2. -There is at least one other independent source of information (visual testimony or another sensing device). Trick of the eye: lens-shaped clouds I I I[Photo] Central bulge, broad and narrow disk, this is the definition oflenticular galaxies. It is also the definition of a type of cloud, cirrocumulus lenticularis, which forms above 7000 m 1·altitude and up to the limits of the troposphere. Their very specific shape is due to factors such as pressure, temperature, turbulence, and very strong winds. But this shape is definitely open to every interpretation for those who wish to see it as a flying saucer... I IWhen military craft play UFOs I I [Photo] ILeft: Photographed in 1989 offshore from Los Angeles, this unpiloted surveillance unit is a I I I
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