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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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I I Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of th.is research and the goals pursued, because that could immediately point any possible rivals down the most beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation (both active as well as passive) would I still remain, under this hypothesis, an absolute necessity. Thus it would appear natural that in the minds of U.S. military leaders, secrecy must be I maintained as long as possible. Only increasing pressure from public opinion, possibly supported by the results of independent researchers, by more or less calculated disclosures, or by a sudden rise in I UFO manifestations, might perhaps induce U .S . leaders and persons of authority to change their stance. It does not seem that we have arrived at that point yet. Glossary I AFB Air Force Base I EMAA (French] Air Force Chief of Staff AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigation I ENAC [French] National Civil Aviation School AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ESO European Southern Observatory I Airmiss Name of the investigation procedure covering the risks ofair collisions ETCA [French) Central Technical Armaments Institution ALAT [French) Anny Air Corps I FOIA Freedom of Information Act Blue Book Name of the U.S. Air Force study of UFOs FUFOR Fund for UFO Research I CCD Charge-coupled device cameras GAO General Accounting Office CCOA [French] Air Operations Center GEPA [French) Aerospace Phenomena Study Group CDC [French] Control and Detection Center I GEPAN [French] Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group CEA [French] Atomic Energy Commission ffiEDN [French] Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies I CEAT Toulouse Aeronautic Test Center INRA [French] National Institute for Agronomic Research CFR Council for Foreign Relations I JANAP Joint Anny Navy Air Force Publication CHEAR [French] Center for Advanced Armament Studies MEGASETI see SETI, whjch MEGASETI is an expansion of I CHEM (French] Center for Advanced Military Studies MHD MagnetoHydroDynamics CIA Central Intelligence Agency I MOD [British] Ministry of Defence I CID [French] lnterarmy Defense College MUFON Mutual UFO Network CIRVJS Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings NASA National Aeronautic and Space Administration I I
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