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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…
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in the eyes of his subjects?
Once again without being able to distinguish what is the product of the natural and Ispontaneous search for the legitimacy of power from what could actually only be the result
of an opportunity seized by inveigling, we are forced to note that history abounds in god
kings or king-gods (pharaohs; Assyrian kings; Hellenic epiphanic kings; Roman, Chinese, Ior Japanese emperors; sons of the Sun of Central or South America, etc.).
13.2.2 Impacts on Industrial-Age Civilizations
Industrial-age civilizations are more skeptical than they formerly were and have more
difficulty envisioning what is not a product of the immediately explainable or the simply
measurable. However, it is certain that the furnishing of irrefutable proof of the existence
ofextraterrestrials would leave a profound mark on populations such as ours today. Th.is
issue is at the heart ofour report.
13.3 Phase Three: Influences on Local Civilizations
The third phase would be that of the influences that we would consider appropriate to
exert on the environment and the civilizations encountered with a view to causing them to
evolve in our fashion. It goes without saying that the advantages and risks would have to Ibe studied carefully.
13.3.1 Influences on Preindustrial-Age Civilizations I
We might consider it necessary, in certain cases, to influence the environment in a
specific manner and the evolution of local civilizations in a subtle way. It might seem Inecessary to us, upon completion of our observations and our analyses, to modify, bit by
bit, the natural environment and the ecosystem by, for example, seeding or introducing
select plants and organisms that are lacking. ILikewise, the course of indigenous civilizations could be gradually modified by
influencing, either from a distance or directly, the qualities or defects ofselect individuals,
accentuating their intellectual and moral tendencies and their scientific knowledge, or by Icausing genetic mutations by different processes that are yet to be invented.
In this case, it would be a matter of playing the role that these populations would have
willingly reserved for gods, who, by providing sacred texts, would reorient, for example, Itheir sense of morals, their religiosity, and perhaps their laws and their political
institutions. The use ofelements likely to terrify and impress could be appropriate in some
cases. And, with all due reverence, nothing would prevent one from thinking of different Iepisodes in the Old Testament, the conditions under which the laws of Manu were
instituted ( I 0) or even the Koran given. The influences relate back to a certain number of
enigmas in history, including, perhaps, the concomitant appearance of the great Icivilizations of the Indus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt ( cities, architecture, writing, calendar,
astronomy, etc.). They also call to mind the extraordinary map of the Antarctic, which
was drawn almost free of ice by the Frenchman Oronce Fine in 1531, nearly three centuries Iprior to the discovery of this continent in 1820 ( 11 ).
13.3.2 Influences on Industrial-Age Civilizations I
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