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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.
“The Advance”28 pages
- 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…
NEW FRONTIERS
UFOs. many will quickly dismiss the generals'
ET hypothesis. But i t is less easy 10 do so once
the authors' credentials are considered. The
study·s origi nators are four-star General
Bernard Norlain. former commander of the
French Tact ical Air Force and military
counselor 10 the prime minister: General Denis
Leuy. an air force fighter pilot: and Andre
Lebeau. former head of the National Center
for Space Studies (the French equivalent of
NASA in the United States.)
They formed a 12-member "Commi11ee for
In-depth Studies," abbreviated as COMETA,
which au thored the report. Three-star Admiral
M arc M erlo. national chief of police Denis
Blancher and Jean-Jacques Velasco. head of a
government agency studying U FOs, as well as
scientists and weapons engineers. were also
contributors. Not only does the group stand by
its findings. it is urging international acti on.
The writers recommend that France
establish "sectorial cooperation agreements
with i nterested European and foreign
countries" on the mailer o f UFOs. They
suggest that the European Union undertake
diplomatic action wi th the United States
"exerting useful pressure to clarify this crucial
issue which must fall within the scope of
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