UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

I Canadair CL-227 Sea Sentinel military drone.
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This Sikorsky "Cypher" surveillance drone is used by the U.S. Anny in urban conflict
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I JANAP (Joint Anny, Navy, Air Force Publication) 146 applies to military personnel but
also to some civilians (flight captains ofcommercial aircraft, merchant marine captains) in
the United States and Canada. It stipulates that an urgent report should be filed with
I certain authorities, which must in turn file a report, namely with the Air Operations
Command (now NORAD [North American Air Defense]) in Colorado Springs, when
objects requiring very urgent defensive action and/or an investigation by the armed forces
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I of the United States or Canada are sighted .
. Among these objects, UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objeqts) are listed along with missiles
and hostile or unidentified submarines, etc. Disclosure of the contents of these reports is
subject to the penalties of the laws cracking down on espionage. JANAP 146 was in effect
in recent years and perhaps is still in force. This regulation may explain the frequent
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reticence of American military personnel, aviators in particular, to bring up the subject of
UFOs.
The members of American ufological associations number several thousand. These
associations attempt to fill the gap left by the public authorities in the field of"UFO"
studies. The FOIA brought them a resurgence ofactivity, showing them that contrary to
I their statements, the Air Force and various special departments, namely the CIA, are very
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much interested in the subject of UFOs and have been for some time. It pennitted them to
learn ofcertain spectacular cases, such as the overflight of missile bases in 1975, or the
1976 Tehran incident related in Chapter 2. DIA deemed this a "radar/visual" case: "A
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classic case that meets all the conditions requiredfor a legitimate study ofthe UFO
phenomenon. "
In recent years, the three main ufological associations have been brought together by a
leading U.S. personality, Marie Galbraith, to conduct a joint study. She is the wife of
Evan Griffith Galbraith, who was U.S. ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985. Thus
I she is well-acquainted with our country and our language, since she lived on Avenue
Gabriel. Supported both morally and financially by Laurance Rockefeller, brother of the
famous David Rockefeller, she traveled the world to meet the principal scientists
I interested in UFOs and to collect the best cases.
She then oversaw the drafting ofa clear and documented book entitled Unidentified
Flying Objects, Briefing Document, the best available ·evidence, which was endorsed in
I 1995 by the chairmen of the three associations CUFOS [Center for UFO Research],
FUFOR [Fund for UFO Research], and MUFON [Mutual UFO Network]. She had this
work sent to more than a thousand prominent figures throughout the world and, namely,
I to a large number of U.S. congressmen. Her goal is to get the U .S. government and
possibly other governments to end the secrecy surrounding UFOs. For the editors of the
book, this secrecy is essentially military in origin: the nation that is first to reproduce the
I exceptional characteristics of UFOs will dominate the world. The secrecy was justified
during the cold war, but it is no longer justified now given the scientific and technical
breakthroughs useful to humanity that one can expect [to obtain] from the study of UFOs.
I On the whole, Marie Galbraith's book is descriptive. It does not interpret the
phenomena sighted (physical modeling or hypotheses regarding the origin of the objects).
Such was also the spirit of the international scientific colloquium organized in September
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