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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. 73 …1996 - The film Independence Day and the television series X-Files make significant references to Roswell…
Itherefore be discrete, using high-speed and silent craft to move through the planet's
atmosphere (MHD propulsion offers interesting prospects in this respect), and non lethal
weapons to avoid the consequences ofan untimely encounter (the paralyzing effect of Ipulsed microwaves is under study in several countries).
When the civilization visited has reached the stage of space voyages, it will become Inecessary to make it aware of the existence of visitors. One way to do this, without
causing trauma, would be to commit "calculated indiscretions" that would accustom the
population, little by little, to the idea that there could indeed be extraplanetary visits. IAppendix 5 - The Roswell Affair - Disinformation
I) Roswell: indisputable facts INote: the parenthetical annotation (video) indicates that video testimonies are
available •
Summer 1947 - The Roswell (New Mexico) base houses the only nuclear-armed Ibombers in the world. The bombers still have propellers.
June 24 - Sighting of nine UFOs by American Kenneth Arnold. The news is broadcast
throughout the world. I,July 8 (morning), Roswell - The base provides the local radio stations with information
that would circle the globe: a flying disk had crashed on a ranch and the military personnel
from the base recovered the debris (video). IJuly 8 (afternoon), Fort Worth (Texas) - General Ramey, Commander of the 8th Air
Force, who commands the base, announces to journalists that after examination of the
debris, [it was determined that] they were from a weather balloon. He shows them some Iofthe debris, which the journalists photograph. The affair was buried for over thirty year.
1978 - Lieutenant Colonel Marcel (ER), an intelligence officer on the base in 194 7 who Irecovered the debris, declares on television that the debris was definitely of
extraterrestrial origin (video). The debris that General Ramey had shown the journalists
was not the debris that Marcel had brought him from Roswell. IAmerican ufologists conduct numerous investigations and collect affidavits (sworn and
notarized written statements) and filmed testimonies. Many witnesses state that in July
1947, military personnel had threatened them with death if they talked (video). According Ito some testimonies, at some distance from the field ofdebris, the Army had found the
frame ofa sort of space glider and cadavers ofsmall humanoids (video).
199 1 -General du Bose [sic] (CR), who was General Ramey's chiefof staff in 1947, Iconfirms by affidavit that the latter had substituted the debris from a weather balloon,
which he had shown the journalists, for the debris sent by the Roswell base.
Beginning of 1994 - U.S. Representative Schiff (New Mexico) asks the Department of IDefense (DoD) for explanations regarding the affair. Not obtaining any, he requests that
the General Accounting Office (GAO) conduct an inquiry into the manner in which the Air
Force, primarily, had handled the documents relating to the Roswell crash. ISeptember 1994 - The Office of the Secretary of the Air Force publishes a report on
Roswell: the debris found on the ranch cannot be from an aircraft or a missile. They are
probably debris from a series of balloons from the secret Mogul project. To protect the Isecret, General Ramey leads everyone to believe it is a weather balloon, the materials of
which ( essentially the shell and radar reflector) are the same. The report shortens the
affidavits of certain wit nesses so that the strange debris that they describe appears to be Idebris from a Mogul balloon. It does not mention the frame and attributes the ''bona.fide
testimonies" regarding humanoids to "foggy memory~"
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