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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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13.4.2 Direct Contacts with Industrial-Age Civilizations
IThe day would come when we believed that these civilizations, gradually brought to
our level through our efforts, are able to participate in our world. With the ground
prepared in advance, contacts could, for example, be established discretely with selected Iindividuals or at the highest level of the States, or ofsome of them, and, if possible, be
kept secret. Although leaks should not be ruled out, the leaders selected would then have
to conduct infonnation, disinfonnation, and counterinfonnation campaigns to maintain the Iprivileged nature of these relations and, who knows, to benefit, from our side, from novel
scientific, technical, and political infonnation, giving them an edge over their rivals. The
selection of States, rulers, key figures, or mere individuals would, of course, be of Iparamount importance. .
Before or after the implementation ofan influencing program, why not imagine having
bionic robots that look like humans or resemble the living beings there appear in order not Ito risk the lives of members of our expeditions? Finally, why not purely and simply
present ourselves openly and publicly? It is easy to imagine the huge sensation that this
would cause in all psychological, political, military, strategic, and religious spheres, to say Inothing of the media, [as well as the] multiple meetings and international colloquiums,
unintenupted sessions of organizations such as the UN, calls for "world unity, "
international consultations, the creation ofwelcoming committees, etc. [that it would Iprompt]. The rivalry of the States would be interesting to observe.
It goes without saying that our intentions must be perceived as peaceful. If this were
not our policy, there would, of course, be no need to take special precautions to show Iconsideration for the sentiments of the local populations. In all of these scenarios, we
should encounter idolaters, sycophants, Herodians, who, out ofa millenialist conviction,
gullibility, pragmatism, or interest, would welcome us with enthusiasm as saviors, capable Iof solving all of their problems and bringing them peace and prosperity, preferably without
having to exert much effort. These would be our first allies. Zealots, skeptics, and those Iwho have withdrawn into the venerable secular conceptions of their world, which has been
turned upside-down, would cast doubt on or deny our existence. If they were to admit it,
they would consider us as so many invaders, whose intentions would be perceived as all Ithe more suspect since they would be peaceful. There is but one logical step to take
between that and imagining the creation of defense movements and resistance movements
against the invader. The strength of these movements would depend, in part, on our skill Iin squashing them, convincing them, in the hope ofattaching them to us.
But how then do we avoid the pitfall ofgood intentions and good sentiments that
everyone knows the road to hell is paved with? (13) Should we admit how long we have Ibeen observing them? Would they reproach us for not having intervened to prevent a
world war, or would they blame us for it, or, more generally, would they hold it against us
that we changed the course of civilizations? Very severe and lasting psychological Idisturbances should be envisioned in these cases.
Would they be disappointed to learn that we are not immortal? Later, economic and
technological exchanges and financial ties should be established with these populations. IWould it be a wise policy to involve ourselves in local affairs? And in one manner or
another. could we escape the requests to become arbitrators of political disagreements,
peace, war, and economic crises? IWhatever the case, one day or another we would be in charge of the unsolved
problems. Would they not go so fa r as to reproach us for the contributions of our very
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