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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…
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

Cases discussed

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