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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. 10 …director of the lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nation ale (Institute for Advanced National Defense…
  • p. 27 …Did the red ball come from space? Advancing with I caution, monitoring their nuclear radiation detectors…
  • p. 36 …advanced Icybernetics. The other French cases ofclose encounters described in Chapter 4 also strongly suggest the…
  • p. 37 …The most advanced uses I magnetohydrodynamics, abbreviated MHD, but many others can also be considered. We…
  • p. 38 …advanced - should not be ruled out a priori. In fact,. the space phase of the travel…
  • p. 41 …us, but then the probability is that this advance figures in the thousands of years or…
  • p. 42 …number of major advances. Ofcourse, on analysis, a good proportion of the sightings have proven completely…
  • p. 43 …advanced civilization. It is therefore necessary to look farther, to the stars, I but the closest…
  • p. 44 …advanced, it supposedly disappeared from earth (nuclear war, radioactivity, pollution; etc.) but resettled in the solar…
  • p. 51 …In the case in question, we can onJy advance hypotheses formulated on the basis of the…
  • p. 52 …IThe advances that have been made in the conquest of space and in the development of…
  • p. 55 …to constantly monitor the sky and he now has more and more advanced weapons systems capable…
  • p. 58 …All of these subjects are, on the whole, more advanced than Ithe technical problems presently under…
  • p. 59 …I In carrying out the study, he examined the photos taken in 1983 by the IRAS…
  • p. 60 …The state of advancement of the local populations will likely dictate the manner of obtaining, as…
  • p. 63 …send remote-controlled androids in advance in order to assess the reactions that such an intrusion…
  • p. 64 …With the ground prepared in advance, contacts could, for example, be established discretely with selected Iindividuals…
  • p. 65 …and even far more advanced. Nothing allows us to rule out the possibility that, why not…
  • p. 67 …It is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitors. Advanced as I of 1947 by certain U.S…
  • p. 70 …Biologists, for their part, are making rapid advances in understanding the chemical mechanisms that give rise…
  • p. 71 …the contact was already made via telecommunications, or else that the most advanced civilizations made the…
  • p. 78 …One can understand that advancing knowledge of the UFO phenomenon, at the risk of Isucceeding, would…
  • p. 79 …I 7.2.2.3.1 Under these circumstances, if we advance the hypothesis that political…
  • p. 81 I I Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of th…
  • p. 82 …the very serious-minded Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale French Institute for Advanced National…
  • p. 86 …the very serious-minded Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale French Institute Ifor Advanced National…
  • p. 90 …intelligence, deliberate flight control, and advanced energy management." In the 1950s, pilots and crews reported seeing…
  • p. 92 …November of 2000, and is dedicated to the advancement of aviation safety issues as they apply…
CHAPITRE 7
Propulsion MHD
•Jean-Pierre Petit
Lemur du silmu - Belin, 1983,
• "Recherches pour un avion du futur" - Trchniq~s avandr1 (pla
qucttc de !'Ecole nation.ale supcrieure des techniques avancecs), 1988.
• Jeao-lliudc rubes Ct Guy Monnet
I.A vie extratnrmrr- Larousse (coU. f..=ntiels), 1990 (epuisc).
• J.-C. BoWTCt Cl J.-J. Vela.sco
(His1orique des recherches sur la propulsion MHD des navires e1 des
aeronefs) - Ovnis, la sdma avan«- op. cir. - p. 171 sq.
• Mike Ross
"Rider on the shock wave" - New Sdmtiu. 17 fcvrier 1996.
Propulsion par ancigravite
• Nick Cook
"Turning science fiction into F.act" - Jane's Defm« ~ek(y, IO juin
1996.
Propulsion dans l'espacc
• Eugene Mallowe et Gregory Matloff
Starjlighr Handbook-John Wiley & sons, 1989.
• Robcn L Forward e1 Joel Davis
Mirror Matter- John Wiley & sons, 1988.
• W. B. Scon (Edwards Air Force Base)
"USAF Predicts Amimancr Propellants could be in use by early
2 I• century" - Aviation ~ek and Spa« Technology, 21 mars 1988.
Pannes de voinuc
• James Mc Campbell
"Selfstarting engines" - MUFON proceedings, 1983.
(Anide resume dans Ovnis, la scim« avan«- op. cit - p. 18 1 sq.).
Paralysie de temoins
• Keith Aorig
"The future banlefidd, a blast ofgigawans" - IEEspectrum, mars I988.
• J.-C. Bowrct ct J.-J. Velasco
Ovnis, la sdmce avancr - op. cit. - p. 185 sq.
CHAPITRE 8
• Rapporr Condon - op. cit.
• Lawrence Fawccn et Barry Greenwood
Clearlnrmt - op. cit.
• Don Bcrlioer, Marie Galbraith, Antonio Hunncus
Unidmtified Flying Objects Briefing Docummr - publication privce,
dc:ccmbrc 1995.
• Col. Philip J. Cono (rct)
Thr day after RoswrU- Pocket Books, 1997.
• Headquarters United States Air Force
The RonwUrrpon, casr cloud- 1997.
• Nick Pope
Opm Skirs, CloudMinds - Pocket Books, 1997.
• Tunothy Good
Abovt top UuW /rs voies. •
X IO: "(...) /run pms n'obrimdronr rim dr a qu'ils ont dnnandlpour
rux-mmm rt pour rux, a/an qu'ils espmzimr pour twe-mhnrs unr vie
lrrrnr/k rr pour chacun de /run fils dnq cmtr annlrs dr vie. •
(Cf.. cgalcment le livre des Jubilcs: V 1-5: mcme rccit).
(5) G. Pauthicr, Les Ulm!I sacris dr l'Orimt (p.c. Le Chou-King ou
le Livrc Sacre, Part. III, Ch. X-2) - Ed. Au Bureau du Pantheon
Lincraire (Paris), 1852.
(6) Arnold Toynbee, I.A civilisation al'lprruw, GaUimard (Paris) 1951
-p. 89.
(7) cf. les lmmortcls, Dicux, fils cc fillcs des Dicux, H cros, litans ct
Gcants chez H csiode, Homere, Virgile, Pline, H crodote, Plutarque,
etc., cgalement lcs representations divines ct colossalcs de Memnon,
de Karnak, d'Hc:rmonchis, d'Abou-Simbd ct le Sphinx de Ghiuh,
lcs colosscs de l'ilc de Paques, !cs geants de Barnyan en Afghanistan,
ccux de Ninive et de Khorsabad ; !cs H rimchursars des Eddas scan
dinaves, le gcam Skrymcr combanu par Thor, etc.
(8) Pc1cr Lawrence, Leculudu cargo- Fayard (Paris), 1974. (Le pre
mier dcbarqucmcnt de marchandises d'un avion-cargo frappa force
mcnt !'esprit des Papous, au point qu'ils instaurcrent le "cultc du
cargo", dispensateur de richcsses, bicn qu'ils se soicnt, par la suite,
accoutumcs aux produits occidcnraux ct aux vols des avions).
(9) Arnold Toynbee - op. cit - p. 88 : AI-Gabraii.
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