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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.
I document a reflection on the hypothesis of extraterrestrial intelligence and of the importance that it could have if studies came together to confirrn it. IThis report is useful in that it contributes toward stripping the phenomenon of UFOs of its irrational layer. When aJI is said and done, the question ofdetennining whether or not those who created this report believe in the exi~tence ofextraterrestrial visitors, concealed Iin a variety of phenomena that are surprising in appearance but commonplace with respect to their cause, is of no real importance. What a scienti?t believes is important in the conducting of his research because this is what motivates and drives him. But his beliefis Inot important to the results of his research nor does it have any effect on those results if he is rigorous. Table of Contents PREFACE FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART l FACTS AND TESTIMONIES Chapter 1 Testimonies of French Pilots Chapter 2 Aeronautical Cases Throughout the World Chapter 3 Sightings from the Ground Chapter 4 Close Encounters in France Chapter 5 Counterexamples of Phenomena That Have Been Explained PART 2 THE EXTENT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE Chapter 6 Organization of the Research in France Page 27 Chapter 7 Methods and Results ofGEP AN/SEPRA Chapter 8 UFOs: Hypotheses, Modeling Attempts Chapter 9 Organization of the Research Abroad PART3 UFOs AND DEFENSE Chapter 10 Strategic Planning Chapter 11 Aeronautical Implications Chapter 12 Scientific and Technical Implications Chapter 13 Political and Religious Implications Chapter 14 Media Implications CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS APPENDICES Appendix 1 Radar Detection in France Appendix 2 Astronomers' Sightings Page 74 Appendix 3 Life in the Universe Appendix 4 Colonization of Space Appendix S The Roswell Affair - Disinforrnation I· I.. Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 I.· :· Page 9 Page 12 Page 17 Page 20 'IPage 24 i Page 31 IPage 35 Page 42 IPage 55 Page 59 IPage 62 Page 64 Page 69 IPage 71 IPage 74 IPage 75 Page 75 Page 77 IAppendix 6 The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon - Elements ofa I I
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