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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…
I propulsion using antimatter in solar or interstellar space. It was also in the United States
I where the astronomer Papagiannis won a NASA study contract a few years ago to detect
possible space cities in the asteroid belt located between the planets Mars and Jupiter.
I In carrying out the study, he examined the photos taken in 1983 by the IRAS [Infrared
Astronomical Satellite] satellite and looked for possible abnormal infrared emissions
coming from objects in th.is belt. It would seem that NASA did not renew Papagiannis'
contract, which apparently did not yield any results.
I 12.4 Special Studies
I Some studies do not come under the "hard" sciences and technologies: for interstellar
voyages, the stability ofthe earmarked societies requires study. What, in particular, is
their minimum size? The different attempts at disinformation made by certain foreign
I governments should be analyzed discretely, but in depth. The wish of these governments
to appropriate for themselves alone any possible futuristic technologies relating to military
I aircraft and weapons might help explain these attempts (see Appendices 5 and 7). It
would be advisable to already be anticipating the measures to be taken and the decisions to
be made should events such as indubitable physical or radio contacts with an outside
civilization take place.
I Chapter 13 - Political and Religious Implications
I An assessment of the impact that the formal confirmation of the existence of UFOs and
extraterrestrial civilizations would have on the political and religious situation of the
I countries on earth could be a bit ofa challenge. However, the task is less arduous when
we try to put ourselves in the shoes of extraterrestrials who supposedly have chosen earth
as a field ofobservation and/or intervention. We will use th.is method. It is appropriate,
ofcourse, to postulate that the technical and human difficulties have been resolved,
I permitting us to exceed the limits ofour solar system, and even our galaxy:
I - Either in secular voyages aboard "ship-worlds," in which thousands of volunteers
who have embarked would see their generations reproduce. It is necessary to keep in
mind that these craft will not be able to one day return to earth, at least that is what we are
I assuming, which would confer - de facto - a political autonomy and freedom of decision to
the onboard government independent oforders and programs established prior to
departing earth (cf Appendix 4: "Colonization of Space").
- Or, in [voyages of] several months or years - based on totally revolutionary scientific
I concepts and techniques that remain to be imagined - using aircraft or probes piloted by
classic crews or by bionic androids, which would follow the instructions received from a
I parent station or from earth.
During the course of these explorations, we might discover one or more celestial bodies
populated with beings that have evolved more or less similarly to us, "humans," humanoid,
I or even stranger creatures. They may have created civilizations that are comparable to or
more advanced than our present civilization, or they may be endowed with only
rudimentary aptitudes for civilization, unless they still remain only at the elementary
survival stage.
I (Nora Bene: in this chapter, the numbers in parentheses refer to the references, pp. 87
to 89)
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