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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. 2 …Since I closed down the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space a few years…
  • p. 10 …our national efforts and to indispensable international cooperation. IHEDN will then have well served the nation…
  • p. 30 …I 6.2.3.Assessment and Results of the Cooperation with the Gendarmerie Nationale ISince 1974…
  • p. 31 …I Cooperation agreements have been established, particularly with various bodies that can benefit in return from…
  • p. 49 …He has cooperated with the ufological associations, giving their address and phone number I· to witnesses…
  • p. 54 …strategy, - participating in the establishment of regional cooperation agreements with interested European and foreign countries. It…
  • p. 68 …I- participating in the establishment of sectorial cooperation agreements with other countries. 5) Initiate diplomatic demarches…
  • p. 75 …Later, a former Navy petty officer from I the 2nd Marine Division, Bill Cooper, "revealed" that…
  • p. 88 …The writers recommend that France establish "sectorial cooperation agreements with i nterested European and foreign countries…
  • p. 89 …is o ne of ma ny supporters of in ternational cooperation on UFOs. Of the French…
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I adversary, understand his intentions, and ascertain his modes ofaction. In the case in
question, we can onJy advance hypotheses formulated on the basis of the facts observed
and their interpretation, while trying to answer three questions: Who are they? What are
their intentions? Are they seeking to make contact or have they already done so?
I 10.1 What Extraterrestrials? Who Are They and What Are They Like?
I A relative consistency emerges from the numerous descriptions ofthe phenomena:
saucer, luminous sphere or cylinder, hovering followed by accelerations at lightning speed,
the absence of noise, easily supersonic speed with no sonic boom, associated
I electromagnetic effects that interfere with the operation of nearby radio or electrical
apparatus. Obviously, these extraterrestrials are highly endowed intellectually and are
technologically advanced over us to have been able to achieve what we do not yet know
I how to do. But the rest remains a mystery! Morphology~ physical make-up, type of life,
I manner ofcommunication and form of society, sense of values, concept chime,
motivations, etc. If they are observing us, it is necessary to note an apparent contradiction
between the interest that they show in us and their furtiveness. Rather than observe us, it
I seems that they want to show themselves to us and to gradually acclimate us to the idea of
their existence.
10.2 What Intentions and What Strategy Can We Deduce from Their Behavior?
I Extrapolation pased on a rational analysis of the objectives that the extraterrestrial
civilization or civilizations could be pursuing should permit us to get an idea of the
strategies that they are implementing and should consequently lead us, in response, to
I deduce the broad lines of what our own strategies might be. UFOs have manifested
themselves in many places throughout the world in recent decades, with surprising peaks
between 1952 and 1954, without our being able to deduce a well-defined course of action.
I What are they seeking?
After the observation phase and the phase ofdemonstrating that they exist, it would
seem logical to us for them to be seeking to leave their mark and impose their will on the
I States of the earth, but at present, nothing allows us to deduce from their manifestations
the existence ofa driving desire serving purposes that we are presently unable to discern.
I It is plausible that preferred contacts can be attributed to the United States. But nothing
contradicts the possible establishment ofother contacts with some European countries or
I even with Russia, China, or Japan, [or] others perhaps ... However, it seems difficult to
imagine that they could _have been able to position themselves on earth with the complicity
ofcertain States. Moreover, the hypotheses ofcontacts do not enable us to deduce the
I existence of some status quo with these visitors. Actually, the sporadic manifestations of
UFOs and even the occurrence of repeated waves [ofsightings] have continued since
1947. One would have every right to think that these visitors - fortified by their
I superiority - are showing their intention to continue to make themselves known in the
most diverse locations on the planet and to continue to carry out their plans, the aims and
means of which still escape us. It could be that, before I94 7 and after, they have had fears
for the future ofearth, a future threatened by risks of nuclear war. Their influences have
been able to be accompanied by appropriate demonstrations:
I - overflights of nuclear missile bases, an example ofwhich is given in Chapter 3,
- intimidation maneuvers against aircraft as in Luxeuil and Tehran (Chapters 1.1 and
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