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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.

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  • p. 89 …the US Defense Department, Miller has participated in a series of previously undisclosed briefings for Pentagon…
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13. 1 Phase One: Observation From a Distance (Remote Sensing and Obscn·ation ?)
It seems reasonable to think that our earthling explorers have received a mission to
peacefully observe these worlds and/or conquer, purely and simply, these new territories in
order to establish a line of descendants there (cf. 13 .4 below). The state of advancement
of the local populations will likely dictate the manner of obtaining, as well as the nature
and duration, of these observations, and the initial observations will, of course, be for
analyzing: I·- the living organisms, the manners in which they think and live, their languages, their
religions and beliefs, their arts, sciences, techniques and weapons, their political
institutions, their social organizations, and their histories in general,
- the environments in which these populations live, [and] animals, plants, minerals, etc.
This first phase, which excludes any physical or material contact, would be that of
scientific, in vivo laboratory observation: electronic surveillance, remote sensing,
recording, decrypting of languages, analyses, evaluations, etc. It is important to
emphasize that this period could last one year, ten years, a century, [or] a thousand years,
why not? Actually, what better scientific experiment - Jato sensu - than that of having
more or less civilized, stagnant or evolving populations, either at peace or at war,
organized in a hundred different manners, no doubt having languages that are foreign to I:one another, each one assuming, in its own way, the organization of ts terrestrial and
celestial cities. In a word, we would be in the situation of observing ourselves!
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13.2 Phase Two: In situ Sampling and Furtive Appearances
IThe interpretation of the data collected can only be complete when a second phase has
been implemented, during which sampling and analyses of mineral, plant, and animal
elements, and perhaps even elements from evolved beings, are performed. Consequently, Ithe question is raised as toAhe types of contacts that would be appropriate to establish and
the political, psychological, and religious implications for the local populations that might
result from these contacts: furtive and covert contacts, visible and overt contacts, Icontinuous or intermittent contacts. If the furtive and covert mode of operation is
initia.llyselected, it nevertheless could not - at least based on the present state ofour
technology - go completely unnoticed by the indigenous populations. It is permissible to Iconsider that the psychological and religious impacts may vary according to the different
types of political organizations and the levels of moral and scientific development
e ncountered on the same world. I
13.2. l Impacts on Preindustrial-Age Civilizations
IIndividuals or masses from preindustrial-age civilizations might note the passage and/or
landing of our ships or our remote-controlled craft. They might collectively view them
equally as natural, divine, extraordinary, supernatural, aberrant, or diabolical phenomena I(frescoes in the Yugoslavian monastery at Detchani, spheres in Nuremberg and Basel in
1561 and 1566 - cf Appendix 6). Furthermore, the collective memories of these peopies
and their imagination in general could be more or less sharply marked by such Imanifestations if they are accompanied, in particular, by the sighting ofour astronauts,
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