UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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.

UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport
MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) An airport in
southern Siberia was shut down for an hour and a half on Friday
when an unidentified flying object (UFO) was detected hovering
above its runway, the lnterfax newsagency reported.
The crew of an 11-76 cargo aircraft refused to take off, claiming they
saw a luminescent object hovering above the runway of the Siberia's
Barnaul airport, local aviation company director Ivan Komarov was
quoted as saying.
The crew of another cargo plane, refusing to use the runway for the
same reason, landed their jet at another airport, Komarov said.
The UFO took off and vanished from the airport 90 minutes later,
according to the report. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse)