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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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I- increase its human and material resources so as to be able to collect information relating to all UFO manifestations, both in Europe and throughout the world, - expand its investigation and analysis capabilities, I· - boost its representation and foreign relations status. It would likewise be advisable to create a unit at the highest State level to collaborate Iwith SEPRA that would be tasked with: - fonnulating all prospective hypotheses, - promoting scientific and technical research and, as such, would have a small minimum Ibudget, - proposing elements of military strategy, - participating in the establishment of regional cooperation agreements with interested European and foreign countries. It should be noted that many countries already have small bodies for the collection of UFO sightings withi.n their armed forces or intelligence services. 10.5.2 European Structures It would be desirable then for the European States and the European Union Commission to conduct every type of research and to initiate diplomatic approaches with the United States, exerting useful pressure, to clarify this crucial issue, which must fall Iwithin the scope of political and strategic alliances. Would it perhaps be opportune for France to propose to the Commission that it create within it - so as to no longer be blind, dumb, and paralyzed - a special expanded coordinating body provided with the necessary Ihuman and material resources? 10.6 What Situations Must We Prepare For? I What strategies could we map out in the following situations: - appearance of UFO and extraterrestrial desire to establish an official and peaceful I .contact, - chance or intentional discovery ofa microbase or base at some location in France or in Europe: position to adopt toward a friendly or non-friendly power, I- invasion (hardly likely given the fact that an invasion could have been carried out before the discovery of the atom) and targeted or massive attacks on strategic or nonstrategic locations, - deliberate manipulation or disinformation with a view to destabilizing other States. In the case of the first situation cited, we are not precluded from suggesting that the States that are equipped with sophisticated research and analysis tools will perhaps have Imore chances than others of being chosen as preferred contacts, but at what risks and advantages? I C hapter 11 - Aeronautical Implications I 11.1 Why Aeronautical Implications? IIt is not intellectually possible to remain indifferent in light of an unexplained I I
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