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UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 94 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 16 …The report, which was sent to the Condon Commission in 1968 by the then retired NCO…
  • p. 17 …case, which appears as "unidentified" in the Condon report, has been cited and studied extensively for…
  • p. 45 …The physicist Condon wrote in his conclusions that the study of UFOs had little chance ofadvancing…
  • p. 52 …revealed until 22 years later in the Condon report. IIt emerges from this that these objects…
  • p. 53 …The strange I conclusions of the Condon report are just one case in point. Why would…
  • p. 82 …French National Aerospace Study and Research Office CONDON Physicist at the University of Colorado who signed…
  • p. 83 …Gilmor (Rapport Condon)- Scimrifir StuayofUniJmrifiedFlying ObjutJ Bantam Books, New York, janvicr 1969. I • James E. Mac…
  • p. 84 …CHAPITRE 8 • Rapporr Condon - op. cit. • Lawrence Fawccn et Barry Greenwood Clearlnrmt - op. cit. • Don Bcrlioer…
  • p. 85 …dt. • R.appon Condon Appendix U : R.cpon ofmeetings ofScientific Advisory Pand on Unidentified Aying Objec…
I Chronology Page 80
Appendix 7 Reflections on Various Psychological, Sociological,
I and Political Aspects of the UFO Phenomenon Page
82
I REFERENCES Page 87
GLOSSARY Page 90
I The photo section from pages 43 to 50, as well as pages 2 and 91, were not part of
the initial report.
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I UFOs AND DEFENSE
What should we prepare for?
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I Photo taken on September 4, 1971, directly over the Tilaran range in Central America
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