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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.

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Without being completely disarmed, and even taking into account the enormous
resources that we have on the earth and our obvious ability to learn quickly, we can only
feel anxious in the face of"their" presence.
Bringing this out into the open by calling for the manpower and funds to conduct the Inecessary research is hard to visualize officially for the onJy superpower in the world.
7.2.2.3.2 This is all the more true since, under the additional hypothesis that the
IU.S. armed forces actually already possess forma l proof of this threat, for example, in the
form of extraterrestrial ships that have crashed on the ground, intensive research on
foreign technologies should have already commenced a long time ago under the cover of
the highest level of secrecy. IAs will be seen in 7.3.3, it would then be completely out of the question to divulge this
type of information. •
IIndeed, revealing a situation as novel as it is upsetting too quickly would perhaps be
running the risk ofsocial upheavals, accompanied by panic, a demobilization ofenergies, a
multiplication of millenialist sects, and a massive move of people to take refuge in
religious fundamentalisms.
The loss of trust in the leaders in power could even lead rapidly to their ousting.
Given such a problem, their normal reactions would obviously be to gain as much time
as possible by continuing their denials, all the while continuing work in secret and
fervently hoping that their successors will take on the responsibility when the reality
becomes manifest.
7.3 U.S. Leaders and the Politics of Secrecy
I7.3.l The U.S. Army and UFOs
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The U.S. Anny has been directly confronted with the phenomenon since World War II.
It seems to have been the o nJy army to have officially broached the problem with Iconsiderable resources.
7.3.2 The Spill-Over Effect of the Study of UFOs I
The U .S. Anny has, in actual fact, designed aircraft that exhibit the characteristics
described by the most reliable witnesses. The spill-overs are potentially considerable in Ithe areas of propulsion, materials and structures, stealth techno logy, and weapons.
7.3.3 Finally, Why the Secrecy? I
We are currently not aware of the extent of the knowledge that U.S. military personnel
have gleaned from all of the studies that they have conducted on this subject either based Ion sightings or, as has sometimes been written, based on materials that have allegedly been
recovered.
Whatever the case, it is clear that the Pentagon has had, and probably still has, the Igreatest interest in concealing, as best as it can, all of this research, which may, over time,
lead the U nited States to hold a position of great supremacy over terrestrial adversaries,
while giving it a considerable response capacity against a possible threat corning from Ispace.
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