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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…
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(11) •Mais qui a d&ouvcrt l'Antu'Ctiquc ?" - Lil &chnrht, n° 161,
d6:anbrc 1984.
(c£ awsi Ow-les Hapgood-us alrta des llncims rois des mn1 - Ed.
du Rocher (Monaro), 1981 - p. 85 ct s.
(12) Lil Bibk: Etrits intmatmnmlllim- op. dt.
I
Lim: des sccrca d'Hmoch :
X 2: •Or,Jqn-/Mim Mon nom tk N airhn- ""1"TIn ovni.s- op. di. p. 27 sq.
• Peter A. Scum,ck
I •Rq,onon a Sw-Yeyofchc Membershiporthe Amcrian Asaonornial
Society Concaning the UFO problem" -Rlzpport n•681 - Institute
for Plasma R.cscarch, Sandford Universiiy, c.A. janvier 1977.
I • J..C. Riba ct G. MollDd
I . Lt, w ~-op. dt.
ANNExE4
I • O'Neill
us,,;Jin1k lt1JN1«- Laffont. 1978.
• Ancln!Lc:beaa
L'tsptz« m hmuf.r- Odilc Jacob, 1986.
I • Paine et al. (National Commision on Space)
l'um«ri"fthe SJM« Frontirr- Bantam Books, 1986.
I • J..C. Riba ct G. Moanet
Lt, vk txl1'tlln'J'tSI - op. dt.
• Thicny Guadifl et aL
2/00, rml iUI p'°"'4in sik/.r-Payot, 1990.
I • Jeu-Oaade Boarm ct.Jan•Jacqua V&.co
Ormi.s, 14 Kim« ,n,m,a- op. dt.
I
ANNExES
Roswd.l
• William Moore
Tht RDswrU inddmr - G.P. Putman & sons, USA, 1980.
(En Inn~ : u mynmtk RDswrU-France Empire. 1981).
• Kmn D. Randle
1) UFO muh 111 Ros-II- Avon Books, USA. 1991 (en a>U. avcc
Donald R. Sdunin).
2) 77,r Tl'Mlh 11bDU1 d,r UFO mzsh 111 &swrll- Evans. USA. 1994.
3) &murU UFO mz.sh "pdak- Global Comm., USA. 1995.
•Ka.nP8ock
Rmwrllinpmp«tivr- Fund for UFO Rcscarch Inc, Washington DC.
1994.
(Peu objcaif, mais intacssant par Jes affidavits en annexe).
• Ridwd L Wea,,u, Col. de l'USAF
Rrpon on Air Forcr Rm11rch rtlll~int tht •Roswt/J lncitknt•-
juillct 1994.
• United Sates General Accounting Office.
•Rcpon to the Honorable SteYl:ll H. Schiff. HouseofRqmscntariYcs.
Govcmmcnt Records : • Results ofa Search for R.ccords Conc:cming
the 1947 Cnsh Near R.oswdl, New Mexico._- - juillct 1995.
• Owne de t~bision anglaisc Channd Four
Eruegisucmcna vidro de t~oignages sur lecrash de R.oswdl, la plu
pan provcnant du Fund for UFO Rcscarch rR.oswdl Rccollcaions,
pan n·. 1992)
Dcsinformation mluctti~
• Kan P8ock
RMwtUin Pmprrtivr- op. dt.
• R.appon Condon
Appendix U : R.cpon ofmeetings ofScientific Advisory Pand on
Unidentified Aying Objec:a {Robenson Panel) - 14-18january 1953
- op. di. - p. -905 sq.
• AlleaJ. Hynek
us objtts 1J01"nts non idmtifiis- Bdfund, 1974.
(Traduit de 71,r UFO &ptrimct, 11 Kitntifot'N{JU1'J- 1972).
Dcsinformation ampli6antc
• Milton William Coopu
The Secret GoYCtnmcnt ;The Origin. ldentiiy,andPurpose ofM.J.12
- Fullc:rton, CA• The Author, 23 mai 1989, 25 p.
•Jaome Ouk
C-UFO in the 80'si - Tht UFO mgr/4prdi;,- Omnigraphics Inc.,
Detroit, 1990.
ANNExE6
• Don Berliner; Marie Gtlbraitb, Aatoo.io Haoecm
Unidmtifad Flyint Objtcts briefinl ,/«,,mn,1 - Tht Mt 1111t1il..bk
t11idnu-r-CUFOS, FUFOR. MUFON, 1995.
• Michd Bongard ct alter
Dn so1«011prs vo'4ntn IIMX ovnis - Editions SOBEPS, 1976.

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