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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.

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  • p. 5 …An independent report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA. This report details the results…
  • p. 6 I I I I I UFOs and Defense I I --The COMETA Report-- I I I…
  • p. 7 …COMETA has tried its luck at this in the report that it is presenting, supported, namely…
  • p. 10 …Knowing that some twenty years earlier the AA had produced and published a preliminary report on…
  • p. 82 …In this report, COMETA studies several unexplained French and foreign UFO cases. I Very well documented…
  • p. 86 …I In this report, COMETA studies several unexplained French and foreign UFO I~ases. IVery well…
  • p. 88 …In-depth Studies," abbreviated as COMETA, which au thored the report. Three-star Admiral M arc…
  • p. 89 …Further, the French report says that there have been "visits above secret installations and missile bases…
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