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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…
I increasingly cut off from the common opinion. John Lear, son of the aircraft builder,
contributed on his part details that he had obtained from friends in the Air Force: the
I Nevada base is Groom Lake base, in "area 51 '' (Groom Lake does in fact exist; it is so
secret that the Air Force does not recognize its existence; nevertheless, it is mentioned in
the June 1996 issue ofJane's Defence Weekly). Later, a former Navy petty officer from
I the 2nd Marine Division, Bill Cooper, "revealed" that the Council for Foreign Relations
I (CFR), which, according to him, governs the world through the Bilderberg [Group] and
the Trilateral [Commission], supposedly does so in close union with the EBEs...
Amplifying disinformation has probably permitted the protection of research on
microwave weapons at Kirtland and on new types ofaircraft at Groom Lake. It has
I certainJy allowed the weapon of ridicule to be used against certain gullible ufologists.
Appendix 6 - The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon - Elements of a
I Chronology
The UFO phenomenon truly experienced worldwide dissemination as of pilot Kenneth
Arnold's sighting on June 24, 1947, in the area of Mount Rainier in the northwest United
I States. In reality, air phenomena that are still unexplained today are much older.
Before going further, it is interesting to note that between May and July of this same
year, 850 different sightings were recorded across the United States and that in January
I an RAF Mosquito night fighter tried in vain to intercept a very rapid object detected by
radars over the North Sea.
I In 1946, phantom rockets overfly Sweden
From February to December 1946, many witnesses sighted generally fusiform objects
( occasionally resembling spheres or disks) flying most often horizontally in Swedish skies,
I in some cases leaving a luminous trail, but also capable of very suddenJy ascending or
descending.
CaJled "ghost rockets," these apparitions ( close to a thousand were detected)
I considerably worried Scandinavian, British, and U.S. military authorities, who conducted
I investigations.
Although no debris was ever found (officially), it was long thought that it could have
been a case of Soviet tests conducted with craft recovered in German factories. This
hypothesis has since been completely ruled out.
I During World War Il, the "foo fighters"
From 1940 to 1945, numerous aviators sighted either swarms of red or green luminous
balls several dozen centimeters in diameter or groups of small metal-looking disks that
I followed the aircraft or flew around them, giving the impression of intelligent behavior.
Most often not detected by the radars of the time, they did not seem "material" in nature.
In fact, some observers saw them touch the wings or the tail assemblies of the aircraft
I without causing any visible damage to them.
I First called "Kraut fireballs," then "foo fighters" (probably in reference to a comic
strip), they were reported in all theaters of operation as of the start of the war. They
began to appear in number during the first major day bombings over Germany. They were
I also observed from the ground and were the subject of numerous reports as of June 1944.
These sightings were the cause of much concern to the Allied authorities, who believed
them to be a secret German process in the beginning. It became clearly apparent at the
end of the war that it was nothing of the sort.
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