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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. 45 …The AIAA recommended moderate, but I continuous scientific work on UFOs. An amendment to the Freedom…
  • p. 47 …This regulation may explain the frequent I reticence of American military personnel, aviators in particular, to…
  • p. 50 …Indeed, if it were a question of terrestrial craft, these could only be American and, Idespite…
  • p. 52 …If the Americans were able on that occasion or o n other occasions to collect at…
  • p. 53 …Specifically, whatever the givens are with respect to American political problems, and in the face of…
  • p. 70 …Next, the Americans plan, in I I
  • p. 71 …A human settlement on the moon is first of all a scientific necessity, namely for astronomers…
  • p. 74 …The disinformation policy was intensified as a result of the recommendations ofa 'I"scientific" committee assembled…
  • p. 77 …Most of the recent American works that have been published on the subject end with this…
  • p. 78 …Various American philosophers have termed this concept "anthropocentric humanism. " To admit that intelligent beings, which are…
  • p. 82 …Studies NORAD North American Air Defense CNRS French) Natio nal Center for Scientific Research (National Space…
LESLIE KEAN
Radio Host/Producer 1998 - 2001
Associate/Senior Producer and co-host of daily, drive-time investigative news magazine "Flashpoints" on
public radio KPF A in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Feature stories, domestic
the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the Sacramento Bee, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Nation, the
Progressive, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Providence Journal, The Commercial Appeal, Burma
Debate, and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Feature stories, international
the International Herald Tribune, the Globe and Mail (Canada), the Vancouver Sun , the Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia), the Kyoto Journal (Japan), the Nation (Thailand), Internazionale (Italy), VSD
(France), the Irish Independent.
Op-cd pieces
the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Journal ofCommerce, the Bangkok Post, the St. Louis
Post Dispatch, the Providence Journal Bulletin, the San Francisco Examiner and The Nation.
Syndication
Knight-Ridder, Scripps-Howard, New York Times Wire Service, Pacific News Service and the National
Publishers Association (NNPA).
Books/Anthologies/Coll ections
Perspectives: Drugs and Society (Comsewise Publishing, Inc. 2000)
Stone Soup for the World (Conari Press, 1998)
Drugs, Society and Behavior 98/99 (Dushkin/McGraw -Hill, 1998)
Burma 's Revolution ofthe Spirit: The Struggle/or Democratic Freedom and Dignity (Aperture, 1994),
co-authored with Alan Clements
Director, The Burma Project USA, 1991 - present
Hwnan rights and media advocacy
Rad io interviews
The Michael Jackson Show (KRLA, Los Angeles); Hightower Radio (over 100 stations); Mike Malloy
Show (WLS Chicago, the ABC station); Coast to Coast AM (audience of 10 to 20 million); Dreamland
with Whitley Strieber (audience I mill ion); Democracy Now with Amy Goodman (Pacifica national); The
Gerry Ryan Show (Channel 2, National radio Ireland) and many others.
Honors
The fund for Investigative Journalism: grants, 1996, 1997 and 1998
Project Censored Honorable Mention: 1998
The Nation Institute: grant, 1997
Cover stoiy selected by The Nation as their submission for the George Polk Award, 1996

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