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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. 2 …Since I closed down the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space a few years…
  • p. 10 …our national efforts and to indispensable international cooperation. IHEDN will then have well served the nation…
  • p. 30 …I 6.2.3.Assessment and Results of the Cooperation with the Gendarmerie Nationale ISince 1974…
  • p. 31 …I Cooperation agreements have been established, particularly with various bodies that can benefit in return from…
  • p. 49 …He has cooperated with the ufological associations, giving their address and phone number I· to witnesses…
  • p. 54 …strategy, - participating in the establishment of regional cooperation agreements with interested European and foreign countries. It…
  • p. 68 …I- participating in the establishment of sectorial cooperation agreements with other countries. 5) Initiate diplomatic demarches…
  • p. 75 …Later, a former Navy petty officer from I the 2nd Marine Division, Bill Cooper, "revealed" that…
  • p. 88 …The writers recommend that France establish "sectorial cooperation agreements with i nterested European and foreign countries…
  • p. 89 …is o ne of ma ny supporters of in ternational cooperation on UFOs. Of the French…
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IAdvanced Mili,ary Studies], etc.,
- civilian schools and their alumni: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Police
[National Police College], Ecole des Officiers de Police [Police Officers IAcademy], journalism schools, Ecole Nationale de l' Aviation Civile. At the
latter school, numerous conferences have allowed air [traffic] controllers to be
taught the proper reactions in the event an aircraft encounters a UFO, I- agencies that support or conduct research for military purposes: DGA,
ONERA, CEA/DAM [Directorate of Military Applications], etc.,
- special civilian and military departments, as well as the Direction de la ICommunication de la Defense [Defense Communications Directorate], DICOD
fonner central SIRPA [Anned Forces Information and Public Relations
Department]), calling their attention to disinfonnation processes. I2) Boost SEPRA's human and material resources so that it can:
- develop its investigation and analysis possibilities, I- collect infonnation relating to all UFO manifestations, both in Europe and
throughout the world,
- maintain and develop databases on different aspects of these manifestations,
- reinforce its representation and foreign relations status.
3) Make the detection of UFOs an objective for civilian and military space surveillance
systems, which it is necessary to develop for other reasons (prevention of collisions Ibetween satellites and space debris, etc.).
4) Create a unit at the highest State level to collaborate with SEPRA, that would be
tasked with: I- fonnu lating all prospective hypotheses,
- promoting scientific and technical efforts and, as such, have an annual budget
ofa few million francs, I- participating in the establishment of sectorial cooperation agreements with
other countries.
5) Initiate diplomatic demarches to the United States, with the support of other States Iand even the European Union, to urge the superpower to collaborate and, if necessary,
exert useful pressure to clarify this crucial issue that necessarily comes within the
framework of political and strategic alliances. • I6) As speculative as these possibilities are, reflect, at the level of public authorities and
with the aid of the unit mentioned in item 4), on the measures to take in the event of a
spectacular and indisputable manifestation of a UFO: I- overt attempt to make contact,
- landing before numerous witnesses,
- other substantial actions. IThese reflections would be carried out methodically, while maintaining, obviously, a
minimum distance.
IAppendices
Appendix l - Radar Detection in France I
Radar detection in France is carried out by two radar station networks, the military
network equipped with both primary and secondary radars and the civilian network Iequipped almost entirely with secondary radars. Primary radar permits one to detect and
visualize on a screen (or scope) the geographic position and the altitude (three-
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