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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…
Icooperation program to SEPRA, but the CNES management did not follow-up on the
offer. It should be noted that in the Siberian section of the Academy of Sciences, the Istudies, which are less well known in the West, do not rule out the extraterrestrial
hypotheses, and even favor it.
During "Glasnost," information was disseminated on the studies being conducted by Iboth the KGB and by the military. In 1991 , the KGB declassified 124 pages of documents
from Cases ofSightings ofAbnormal Events over USSR Territory, /982-1990, which
covered a total of 17 regions. One of these cases, which we detailed in Chapter 3, Iconcerns the extraordinary aerial maneuvers of three bright disks over an Army missile
base near Astrakhan in 1989. The objects, which were sighted by seven military members,
went from hovering to high speed and back again all without making any noise. When it
was approached by a Soviet fighter jet, one object escaped so quickly that it seemed to
leave the fighter jet standing still in its tracks.
In 1994, Colonel Boris Sokolov sold ABC News a collection of investigations
conducted by military personnel from 1978 to 1988. Earlier, in 1990, the newspaper
Rabochaya Tribuna had published an article by Aviation General Maltsev, who
commanded the territorial air defense, concerning a well-documented visual/radar case Iwith multiple witnesses (Pereslav-Zalesski, the night ofMarch 21, 1990) in which a silent
discoid object went from hovering to a speed two or three times faster than that ofa
modem fighter jet. We described th.is case in Chapter 2. I
PART3 I
UFOs and Defense
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To date, a UFO has not been the certain cause of any accident or a fortiori any hostile act,
at least officially; no UFO threat has materialized in France, although intimidation Imaneuvers have been confirmed (Chapters 1. 1, 2 .1, and 2.3). However, numerous
manifestations observed by reliable witnesses could be the work of craft ofextraterrestrial
origin. Indeed, if it were a question of terrestrial craft, these could only be American and, Idespite all precautions taken to maintain secrecy, this would be known. The first
prototype stealth aircraft flew at the end of 1977; the existence ofstealth aircraft became
known about ten years later, in 1988. But credible, confirmed UFO sightings began in I·1944.
Certainly, this subject still sometimes elicits amused skepticism, if not a certain mistrust Iwith regard to those who mention it seriously, but in the absence of explanations for the
phenomena sighted, the hypothesis of an extraterrestrial origin can no longer be ruled out.
In this third part, we set out to study, from a strategic, scientific, political, religious, and Imedia standpoint, the consequences of this hypothesis based on present scientific
knowledge.
IChapter 10 - Strategic Planning
The definition of a strategy toward an "adversary" requires that one know the I
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