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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…
I2.3),
- witnesses paralyzed, engines shutting off, lights going out (San Carlos de Bariloche,
Chapter 2.5). IThe advances that have been made in the conquest of space and in the development of
nuclear technology could be troubling them. Wouldn't it be logical to think that these Iextraterrestrial civilizations have established stations, even colonies, in the asteroid belt
and why not relay stations on the moon? Our forays and projects studied in the United
States for modifying the orbits ofasteroids using H bombs in order to bring them closer to Ithe earth's orbit for mining purposes could be disturbing them. For the moment, they do
not appear to be meddling in our affairs, but it is advisable to ask ourselves what they are
actually seeking. Do they want to invade earth? To preserve it from nuclear self I.destruction? To learn about and preserve the patrimony that our civilizations have created
over the span of centuries? In view of these uncertainties concerning their intentions, we
can 't tell what the future holds and, in particular, we.cannot consider that they will Icontinue not to intervene. Some of their undertakings in regard to us might, therefore, not
be innocent in the long term. Perhaps they don' t have any need for our sensibilities or the
politics ofStates?
10.3 Repercussions of UFO Manifestations 01• the Official and Unofficial Conduct of
States 'I-The repercussions have been varied in scope. Based on what can be learned of the
reactions of States, it is permissible under our hypothesis to classify them as: Ia) States that have no knowledge ofextraterrestrial phenomena_ or believe they are not
concerned.
b) States that know ofextraterrestrial phenomena but have no means to investigate Ithem,
c) States that know ofextraterrestrial phenomena and have the means to investigate
them, Id) States that have entered into contact with one or more extraterrestrial civilizations
and that have established relations and/or entered into political, scientific, and
technical collaboration. I10.4 Have Contacts Possibly Been Made with One or More States?
Individuals claim to have been contacted for the purpose of studies or with a view to Iestablishing relations between one intelligent life form and another. Can we imagine direct
and continuous contacts at the highest level ofone or more States, particularly the United
States? It is true that the position of that country has been among the strangest since the Iwave [of sightings] in June 194 7, followed by the Roswell affair in July 194 7 (cf
Appendix 5). If the Americans were able on that occasion or o n other occasions to collect
at least debris or entire wreckage of extraterrestrial vessels in fairly good condition, and Ieven cadavers of humanoids, a certain type ofcontact would then have been established.
First statements and reactio ns are often considered to be more probative than
subsequent affirmations. Thus immediately following what would later become the IRoswell affair, General Twining was tasked with preparing a secret report on "flying
disks, •• the existence of which was not revealed until 22 years later in the Condon report.
IIt emerges from this that these objects truly do exist. But since then the United States has
followed a policy ofincreasing secrecy ( classification above "top secret " of certain UFO
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