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UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? -An independent report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA. This report details the results of a study by the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence.- This paper originally appeared in a special issue of the m…

UFOs and Defense --The COMETA Report--

"Stripping the UFO phenomenon of its irrational layer"

"Stripping the UFO phenomenon of its irrational layer" Foreword by Professor André Lebeau, Former chairman of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) [French National Center for Space Studies] It is not looked on highly in certain scientific circles to be preoccupied with…

document a reflection on the hypothesis of extraterrestrial intelligence and of the importance that it could have if studies came together to confirm it. This report is useful in that it contributes toward stripping the phenomenon of UFOs of its irrational layer. When all is sai…

Chronology Page 80 Appendix 7 Reflections on Various Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the UFO Phenomenon Page 82 RE…

"Concrete problems are raised that call for a response in terms of action" by General Bernard Norlain, Former director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN)] [Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies When General Letty visited me in March 1995…

by Denis Letty, Air Force General, 2nd Section, AA (35) The accumulation of well-documented sightings made by credible witnesses forces us to consider from now on all of the hypotheses regarding the origin of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, and the extraterrestrial hypothe…

(1): AA or AR xx: auditor of national or regional promotion no. xx. INTRODUCTION In 1976, a committee of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) chaired by General Blanchard, of the Gendarmerie Nationale, opened the unidentified flying objects file. The obje…

advisable to eliminate here and now. PART I Facts and Testimonies Before going further, it seems worthwhile to us to present several facts and testimonies that in themselves justify the interest of the in-depth study that we are going to develop below: - three testimonies of F…

surprised by the crew's question that he suspects an oxygen problem capable of causing a "hallucination." "Assailant A1" maintained its course towards the Mirage IV. P initiated a bank to the right toward A1, a bank which he was forced to keep tightening (3 to 4 g) in order to t…

very last moment and passed over his right wing grazing it, all within a fraction of a second. P retained the following memory of this incident: - S was not very large (1 to 2 m in diameter), - S was extended by a tail, which was comparable to that on a comet, that was also a f…

It is appropriate to specify that those cases that have been sighted from aircraft are considered to be aeronautic cases. This chapter describes five significant cases that occurred in different parts of the world and which were the subject of an investigation by the authorities…

The object changed direction several times, describing line segments ranging from 13 to 30 km, separated by abrupt stops for 3 to 6 minutes; the speed always went from a value of zero to a value of some 950 km/h without any transition. Visual sightings were made from the ground…

occurred every 600 microseconds. The radars scanned the horizon four times per minute. Three other officers (pilot, copilot, navigator) were in the cockpit and, as a result, could themselves see out of the aircraft. The six officers were questioned by MacDonald in 1969. They rela…

Visual and radar contact were regained. - At 1052Z, Chase saw the object drop to around 4500 m. He had the RB-47 make a dive from 10,500 to 6000 m. The object then disappeared from his view, from the Utah radar, and from MacClure's screen simultaneously. - At 1057Z, still near…

because it shone so intensely. Its brightness came from lights arranged in a rectangle, changing rapidly from glue to green, to red, and to orange. - Suddenly a bright object with an apparent diameter one half or one third of that of the moon exited the UFO and headed rapidly fo…

machines could hardly have such capabilities." 2.5 San Carlos de Bariloche (July 31, 1995) Source SEPRA Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR 674, a Boeing 727 en route from Buenos Aires, was 140 km from San Carlos de Bariloche, a tourist resort in the central Andes where it was pre…

Antananarivo. It was seen by several hundred witnesses. At 1700 hours, when the personnel of the Air France office were waiting for the mail to arrive, someone spotted a "large" green "ball" in the sky moving at high speed. The first thought of the witnesses was that it was a me…

- not making any noise, - not causing any turbulence on the ground either when it hovered or when it departed, - not having left any trace on the ground. After observing it for a period of time which was hard for him to determine, F saw M oscillate faster, he had the impression…

4.1 Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence [Department] (July 1, 1965) In-depth investigation by the Gendarmerie Nationale At Valensole on July 1, 1965, Maurice Masse, who left his home at 5:00 a.m., headed for his lavender fields located on the plateau near the village. Before sta…

over the low wall of the enclosure. The boy, who was 13 years old at the time, got up to make the cow come back, when he spotted four children whom he did not recognize on the other side of the road. Surprised by what he saw, he called his sister, when he noticed an extremely br…

into the domain of the unexplained. The gendarmerie and then GEPAN conducted an in-depth investigation including numerous interviews with the witness and his neighbors. The expert's appraisals of the ground - the taking of soil and plant samples followed by analyses - showed une…

but he did remark that when the craft departed, the grass stood straight up, then returned to its normal position. The interest of this sighting, apart from its strangeness, lies in the visible traces left on the vegetation and, namely, on an amaranth bush, the tips of whose lea…

small mirrors stuck to its polystyrene casing were for reflecting the show's lighting effects.. 5.2 A Bright Glow in a Village in the Dombes Region (March 10, 1979) GEPAN/SEPRA investigation On March 13, 1979, the local [gendarmerie] force of a small village in the Dombes regi…

establishment had within it the skills and resources appropriate to this mission, in particular, engineers and personnel with high-level technical knowledge who were in close touch with scientific circles. A scientific council chaired by Hubert Curien and composed of twelve membe…

Each gendarmerie force possesses a manual, the "gendarmerie handbook," which contains all of the instructions on the procedures to be followed in the collection of data on unidentified aerospace phenomena. Depending on the degree of complexity of the case reported, the level of i…

resources currently available in terms of personnel and budget allocations do not permit a response with the efficacy desired. 6.3 Participation of the Air Force Just after World War II, the first reports of French aeronautic UFO sightings were collected and archived by the Air…

for example: - lightning (EDF, CEA [French Atomic Energy Commission], the National Weather Service, ONERA, CEAT [Toulouse Aeronautic Test Center]), - meteors (CNRS [National Center for Scientific Research], DGA [French General Delegation for Armaments]), - line disturbances (E…

Chapter 7 - Method and Results of GEPAN/SEPRA

Chapter 7 - Method and Results of GEPAN/SEPRA 7.1 Method Developed by GEPAN GEPAN developed an original method for studying rare, randomly occurring phenomena. Meteorites are among these phenomena. Scientists have long refused to consider sightings of stones that have fallen fr…

labeled CE3s (close encounters of the third kind) according to the classification proposed by Professor A. Hynek, an astronomer and consultant to the USAF, within the context of the Blue Book Project (cf. Chapter 9.1). 7.3 Typology of UAP Ds The detailed statistical analysis of…

worldwide includes the description of 489 well-documented cases of aeronautical UAP D sightings the sources of which were duly verified. Most of the information on these aeronautical UAP Ds is drawn from official sources, government authorities, the Air Forces of different States…

maneuvers when the disks are detected lead one to assume that they are piloted or operated by remote control. 5. Most witnesses describe objects with a metal surface that are circular or elliptical in shape, the upper portion of which is dome shaped, flying without making any no…

the Socorro (New Mexico) case, which is similar to the Trans-en-Provence case, but the critical overview of which would needlessly weigh down this report. One strong conclusion emerges from this set of facts: some UAP Ds do seem to be completely unknown flying machines with exce…

luminous, which has frequently been observed around unknown objects). As for the magnetic field, it can be created as it is for boats.. However, propulsion is much more difficult to achieve in air, since, in that case, it must not only propel the aircraft but first of all compens…

extremely high exhaust velocity, the mass expelled is low and expulsion can be continued for a very long time. Such particle beam generators that can be loaded on board satellites have been developed for space warfare in the former USSR (at the von Ardenne laboratory in Soukhoumi…

which we know can cause effects of this type and which can be easily formed into beams to act from a distance. Under these conditions, microwave emissions from unknown objects would be likely to create around the vehicle an electrical field strong enough to cause, when added to t…

certainties: - humility in noting prognostic errors committed in the past. It suffices to recall the affirmations made by or attributed to several very great scientists: "You cannot breath in tunnels," "science is almost finished," "something heavier than air cannot fly," etc. I…

8.3 UFOs - Overall Hypotheses For several dozens of years, the systematic collection and scientific study of unusual atmospheric phenomena have permitted a number of major advances. Of course, on analysis, a good proportion of the sightings have proven completely explicable: sat…

throughout the decades during which these phenomena have occurred, the secret would have inevitably come out, especially if the political upheavals of recent years are taken into account. 8.3.3 Disinformation Attempts Into this category fall special effects and montages, which…

contacts. Astronomers have attempted contacts via message transmission and radio listening in the "SETI" and "MEGASETI" programs. Although some enthusiasts have suggested futuristic ideas to "bypass" the vast expanse, such as, for example, the use of "black holes," the crossing o…

framework of a project which bore the overall title Blue Book. It was confirmed in the summary and conclusions of the university commission in charge of evaluating the Blue Book [Project], the Condon Commission. The physicist Condon wrote in his conclusions that the study of UFOs…

cases a document can stand up to analyses at any given moment. 2 - With respect to a document deemed to be authentic, extracting the maximum amount of information permitting a known phenomenon to be identified or a phenomenon that is a priori inexplicable to be characterized (si…

Canadair CL-227 Sea Sentinel military drone. Right: This Sikorsky "Cypher" surveillance drone is used by the U.S. Army in urban conflict situations. JANAP (Joint Army, Navy, Air Force Publication) 146 applies to military personnel but also to some civilians (flight captains of…

1997 by Laurance Rockefeller at Pocantico, near West Point, on the property of the Rockefeller Bros. Fund. Moderated by astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, this colloquium focused on physical evidence concerning UFOs. Specialists on radar, the biological effects of microwaves, photog…

information on their work. Since its creation in 1964, the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) has had a UFO study unit, whose [designator] abbreviation Sec(AS)2a stands for Department 2a of the Secretariat (Air Staff) division. Its activity was recently described by Nick Pope, who…

cooperation program to SEPRA, but the CNES management did not follow-up on the offer. It should be noted that in the Siberian section of the Academy of Sciences, the studies, which are less well known in the West, do not rule out the extraterrestrial hypotheses, and even favor it…

adversary, understand his intentions, and ascertain his modes of action. In the case in question, we can only advance hypotheses formulated on the basis of the facts observed and their interpretation, while trying to answer three questions: Who are they? What are their intentions…

2.3), - witnesses paralyzed, engines shutting off, lights going out (San Carlos de Bariloche, Chapter 2.5). The advances that have been made in the conquest of space and in the development of nuclear technology could be troubling them. Wouldn't it be logical to think that these…

files, according to General Barry Goldwater) and constant disinformation. The strange conclusions of the Condon report are just one case in point. Why would, and how could, such an important secret be kept all the way up to the present, despite everything? The simplest response w…

- increase its human and material resources so as to be able to collect information relating to all UFO manifestations, both in Europe and throughout the world, - expand its investigation and analysis capabilities, - boost its representation and foreign relations status. It woul…

aeronautical phenomenon which numerous civilian and military pilots have come face to face with. Of the several hundred confirmed aeronautical cases, there are primarily five types of implications: - simple sighting of a phenomenon by the crew, passengers, or ground personnel,…

He must be prepared to note and supplement the sightings transmitted with the clearheadedness that the distance of his position gives him. In regard to radar detection, only the military controller has adequate equipment to detect a flying object that does not follow general air…

controller training. This practice just needs to be extended to all flight crew training schools, regardless of the specialty being taught. For the generations already on the job, these conferences can easily be offered at the Control and Detection Centers and flight units for m…

of discretion vis-à-vis the press. It is essential to allow scientists [time] to make use of the information before letting the media trigger the curiosity of the general public, which could result in the disappearance of important evidence. Chapter 12 - Scientific and Technical…

propulsion using antimatter in solar or interstellar space. It was also in the United States where the astronomer Papagiannis won a NASA study contract a few years ago to detect possible space cities in the asteroid belt located between the planets Mars and Jupiter. In carrying o…

13.1 Phase One: Observation From a Distance (Remote Sensing and Observation ?) It seems reasonable to think that our earthling explorers have received a mission to peacefully observe these worlds and/or conquer, purely and simply, these new territories in order to establish a li…

whether dressed in their coveralls or their space suits or not, or robots, androids, or any artifacts that we may deem appropriate to disembark or represent. Such appearances, if the local authorities note and publicly certify their reality, would undoubtedly have a creative impa…

in the eyes of his subjects? Once again without being able to distinguish what is the product of the natural and spontaneous search for the legitimacy of power from what could actually only be the result of an opportunity seized by inveigling, we are forced to note that history…

The nature of these influences will vary according to the type of civilization, its technological development, and its psychological acclimatization or lack thereof to the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. It would be advisable beforehand to accustom the mind of these…

13.4.2 Direct Contacts with Industrial-Age Civilizations

13.4.2 Direct Contacts with Industrial-Age Civilizations The day would come when we believed that these civilizations, gradually brought to our level through our efforts, are able to participate in our world. With the ground prepared in advance, contacts could, for example, be e…

advanced civilization, or at least for what we thought would be of benefit to them? Changes of opinion and attitude toward us could occur over time. Wouldn't groups of people be one day tempted to consider themselves our equals, because we did not remain inaccessible? Protest mov…

population. The famous example of Orson Welles's fictional program taken literally by radio listeners in 1938, wreaking tremendous havoc in one region of the United States, may have influenced the reaction of U.S. military personnel vis-à-vis the Roswell incident in 1947. The dis…

Conclusions and Recommendations

Conclusions and Recommendations The UFO problem cannot be eliminated by mere caustic and offhand witticisms. Since the publication of the first report by the Association des Auditeurs of IHEDN 20 years ago, CNES has conducted serious studies in close collaboration with the Genda…

Advanced Military Studies], etc., - civilian schools and their alumni: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Police [National Police College], Ecole des Officiers de Police [Police Officers Academy], journalism schools, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile. At the latter school, numerous…

dimensional radar) of all moving objects via the reflection of radar waves off of the body of the moving object. Conversely, secondary radar permits the detection and display on the screen only of moving objects equipped with a "transponder" that is able to respond to the coded…

majority to mention them without being assured of anonymity. In addition, the general opinion of astronomers on the subject is much less negative than one says sometimes, and the least that you could say is that there is no consensus, with many wanting an objective study of the p…

principle, to establish a permanent base on the moon, a minimal station like the Antarctic base. Beyond that, it would be necessary to recreate an ecosystem where the essential raw material needs (including air, water, and food) could be extracted on site or recycled. Actually, w…

therefore be discrete, using high-speed and silent craft to move through the planet's atmosphere (MHD propulsion offers interesting prospects in this respect), and non lethal weapons to avoid the consequences of an untimely encounter (the paralyzing effect of pulsed microwaves is…

July 1995 - The GAO report mentions the new Air Force version, and states: - page 1, "The debate on what actually happened at Roswell continues." - page 2, "All of the base's administrative documents for the March 1945-December 1949 period were destroyed, and all radio messages s…

Roswell saucer like they believe in Mogul balloons or the V2s? Because it reminds them too much of popular science fiction. As Bertrand Meheust emphasizes, the topic of the Martian craft that had the exquisite courtesy to crash in the vicinity of a military base comes under the h…

increasingly cut off from the common opinion. John Lear, son of the aircraft builder, contributed on his part details that he had obtained from friends in the Air Force: the Nevada base is Groom Lake base, in "area 51" (Groom Lake does in fact exist; it is so secret that the Air…

It seems that, for their part, the German pilots had been persuaded that it was a case of a secret U.S. weapon. A board of inquiry reportedly was even created in Berlin to study the matter. The current explanation of electrical phenomena such as the Saint Elmo's fires is not con…

From the year one thousand to the year 1500, chroniclers mentioned various sightings of luminous spheres, wheels, lances, or bars moving more-or-less rapidly in the sky. The monastery at Detchani, built in Yugoslavia between 1327 and 1335, is decorated with frescoes that represen…

politicians and the vast majority of members of the intelligentsia state that humanity has better things to do than to chase such rainbows. 7.2 Why this Resistance? 7.2.1 On the Part of Scientists (from Scientists) Given an official attitude of contempt, and in view of the fea…

dangers that they might represent come from General MacArthur and President Ronald Reagan. While he had already touched on the problem in 1955, in a conversation with the mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro, General MacArthur said in an address at West Point Military Academy in 1962:…

ours. Without being completely disarmed, and even taking into account the enormous resources that we have on the earth and our obvious ability to learn quickly, we can only feel anxious in the face of "their" presence. Bringing this out into the open by calling for the manpower…

Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources of this research and the goals pursued, because that could immediately point any possible rivals down the most beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation (both active as well as passive) would still remai…

CNES [French] National Center for Space Studies NORAD North American Air Defense CNRS [French] National Center for Scientific Research (National Space Agency) NSC National Security Council CODA [French] Air Defense Operations Center ONERA [French] National Aerospace Study and Res…

Bibliographie Parmi les nomeux livres et articles sur notre sujet, de valeur notoi-rement inégale, nous avons jugé particulièrement intéressant de citer les suivants : CHAPITRE 2 Le cas radar/visuel de Lakenheath (GB) • Edward U. Condon et Daniel S. Gilmor (Rapport Condon) – S…

CHAPITRE 7 Propulsion MHD • Jean-Pierre Petit Le mur du silence – Belin, 1983. • "Recherches pour un avion du futur" – Techniques avancées (plaquette de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des techniques avancées), 1988. • Jean-Claude Ribes et Guy Monnet La vie extraterrestre – Larouss…

(10) G. Pauthier – op. cit. "Manava-Dharma-Sastra ou Lois de Manou, comprenant les institutions religieuses et civiles des Indiens", p. 331 et s : "Le nom de Manou rapproche (...) de ceux de Ménis et de Minos, appartient à chacun des sept personnages divins qui, suivant les idées…

UFO, Unidentified Flying Object... Since 1947, the subject has disturbed, fascinated, called out. Oh how debated, the question has been studied with extreme meticulousness and from many points of view (scientific, technical, aeronautical, strategic, political, religious, media)…

NEW FRONTIERS

UFO's once the preserve of the merely paranoid are now being taken seriously. Astronauts, Generals and a number of influential scientists are hammering away at the crust of international scepticism. LESLIE KEAN explains why a study by the French military may finally make governme…

NEW FRONTIERS

NEW FRONTIERS ncept UFOs, many will quickly dismiss the generals' ET hypothesis. But it is less easy to do so once the authors' credentials are considered. The study's originators are four-star General Bernard Norlain, former commander of the French Tactical Air Force and milit…

SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2000

SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2000 NEW FRONTIERS ⬥⬥ political and strategic alliances." Why might other nations be inclined to take this subject seriously? For one thing, declassified US government documents reveal that the objects' demonstrated extraordinary technical capabilities pose ch…

Pilot encounters with UFOs Study challenges secrecy (and denial)

Pilot encounters with UFOs Study challenges secrecy (and denial) LESLIE KEAN SAN FRANCISCO BACK IN JANUARY, Agence France Presse reported that a commercial airliner flew for two hours while a luminescent unidentified flying object hovered above its runway. Although it's hard t…

THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE • MAY 21, 2000

THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE • MAY 21, 2000 SCIENCE & SOCIETY UFO theorists gain support abroad, but repression at home Study by French officials, routine unexplained sightings, US military safety aspects combine to boost believers BY LESLIE KEAN all monthly release of the first…

National Aviation Reporting Center for Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) The National Aviation Reporting Center for Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) is a national organization, established in November of 2000, and is dedicated to the advancement of aviation safety issues as they apply to…

UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport

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 Interfax newsagency reported. The cre…

LESLIE KEAN

LESLIE KEAN [REDACTED] Radio Host/Producer 1998 - 2001 Associate/Senior Producer and co-host of daily, drive-time investigative news magazine "Flashpoints" on public radio KPFA in the San Francisco Bay Area. Feature stories, domestic the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the Sac…