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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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498 Manzanita Ct.
Ventura, CA 93001
April 30, 2001
Hi Dan
Jon (Cypher) and I look forward to seeing you on Friday at 3:30pm in your office.
Jon, you probably recall, is an actor who starred on "Hillstreet Blues" and "Major Dan,"
among many other TV shows, Broadway (wish you could hear him sing ''The Impossible
Dream" which he sang on Broadway in La Mancha), and movies. He's aJso a scholar
(and sings opera in four languages), and speaks eloquently about space. We've been
married for fifteen years.
Since I closed down the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space a few years
ago, which I founded in '83, we've both been searching for our role in promoting the
space program.
As you know, I was spokesperson for von Braun during the last years of his life. He had
me commit to finding the path to open the doors to space ... with his full and unlimited
vision. I think I've found a way to do it.
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We're bringing you a package that will give you the idea. (Don't worry, it won't cost
you or NASA a dime.) And we'll only take as much time as you want ... even just a few
short minutes as I know how busy you are. But it's going to be worth this trip to hand
this to you in person.
Also, we'd love to take you (and yours) to lunch or dinner during the week we'll be in
DC. Possible?
See you Friday.
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My best,
Carol Rosin
805-641-1999
Cell 805-340-5121
Rosin@west.net
PS. The photo was taken at the US Space Foundation where we were keynote speakers.

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-An independent report on UFOs written by the French association
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This paper originally appeared in a special issue of the magazine VSD
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"Stripping the UFO phenomenon ofits irralional layer"
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Foreword by Professor Andre Lebeau, Former chairman of the Centre National
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It is not looked on highly in certain scientific circles to be preoccupied with phenomena
that are deemed to come under the heading of popular mythology or that are, at any rate,
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outside the realm ofscience. Such was the case with stones falling from the sky, which
was long considered in our country to be the stuffoffable. However, the day that a
meteorite shower over the town ofLaigle permitted a collective and indisputable
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observation, it entered into the domain of science. One century later NASA, no doubt
hastily, elevated these stones to proof ofthe existence of primitive life on Mars.
I _Phenomena ofthis type pose a preliminary problem for the scientific approach: does a
scientific fact exist? •
When the phenomenon is a matter ofexperimentation, the criterion to be used is simple~
I the reproducibility of the experiment is the touchstone and furnishes the fact that must
then be interpreted. But the situation is more difficult when the phenomenon is not open
to experimentation, when repeated observation is the only basis on which one can go, as is
I the case in astronomy and for the most part in geophysics. However, when the fact, albeit
rare, is collectively and indisputably visible, it is easy to elevate it to the status ofscientific
object. The existence ofeclipses, comets, and novas has been recognized_since ancient
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religious dimension. Thus collective and simultaneous observation plays the same role as
the reproducibility ofexperiments.
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This is not true when the event is not only rare but discrete as well, and when there is a
very small amount ofevidence at each occurrence, which opens the door to various
suspicions. Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, fall into this category. One runs up
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activities, especially since the beginning of the space age, have generated atmospheric
phenomena the origin ofwhich is not immediately ascertainable by those who observe
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them. In any case, UFOs, the origin ofwhich cannot be attributed to either a human
source or a natural mechanism that has been identified by science, are mixed in with a
background noise the origin ofwhich, although difficult to identify, is not at all
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mysterious.
Moreover, and above all, the existence ofunexplained manifestations, both in the
atmosphere and occasionally on the surface of the earth, inevitably gives rise to a
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fundamental question: are we alone in the universe? Could some ofthese phenomena be
the work ofextraterrestrial beings? This question gives the UFO issue a sociological,
media-related, and even religious dimension in a domain that is not that ofscience and
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scientific methods. And it is the very existence ofthis dimension that elicits reactions of
rejection in the scientific community.
However, a dispassionate examination of the situation should lead those who believe in
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the value ofscientific method to consider that the very existence ofa strong irrational
environment is another reason to apply the precepts of this method to the issue ofUFOs.
COMETA has tried its luck at this in the report that it is presenting, supported, namely,
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by the work performed by GEPAN, which later became SEPRA. The significant place
granted to sightings, to testimonies, and to the analysis ofcases that have been explained
shows the major role played here by the establishment offacts. But we also find in this
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document a reflection on the hypothesis ofextraterrestrial intelligence and of the
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importance that it could have if studies came together to confirrn it.
This report is useful in that it contributes toward stripping the phenomenon of UFOs of
its irrational layer. When aJI is said and done, the question ofdetennining whether or not I
those who created this report believe in the exi~tence ofextraterrestrial visitors, concealed
in a variety ofphenomena that are surprising in appearance but commonplace with respect
to their cause, is of no real importance. What a scienti?t believes is important in the I
conducting ofhis research because this is what motivates and drives him. But his beliefis
not important to the results of his research nor does it have any effect on those results if he
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PREFACE Page 5
FOREWORD Page 6
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INTRODUCTION Page 7
PART l FACTS AND TESTIMONIES
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Chapter 1 Testimonies ofFrench Pilots Page 9
Chapter 2 Aeronautical Cases Throughout the World Page 12 '
Chapter 3 Sightings from the Ground Page 17
Chapter 4 Close Encounters in France Page 20
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Chapter 5 Counterexamples of Phenomena That Have Been Explained
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PART 2 THE EXTENT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 6 Organization ofthe Research in France
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Chapter 7 Methods and Results ofGEP AN/SEPRA Page 31
Chapter 8 UFOs: Hypotheses, Modeling Attempts Page 35
Chapter 9 Organization ofthe Research Abroad Page 42
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PART3 UFOs AND DEFENSE
Chapter 10 Strategic Planning Page 55
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Chapter 11 Aeronautical Implications Page 59
Chapter 12 Scientific and Technical Implications Page 62
Chapter 13 Political and Religious Implications Page 64
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Chapter 14 Media Implications Page 69
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Page 71
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1 Radar Detection in France Page 74
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Appendix 2 Astronomers' Sightings
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Appendix 3 Life in the Universe Page 75
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Appendix 4 Colonization ofSpace Page 75
Appendix S The Roswell Affair - Disinforrnation Page 77
Appendix 6 The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon - Elements ofa
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Chronology Page 80
I Appendix 7 Reflections on Various Psychological, Sociological,
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GLOSSARY Page 90
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"Concrete problems are raised that call for a response
in terms ofaction"
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by General Bernard Norlain,
Former director of the lnstitut des Hautes Etudes de Defense
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When General Letty visited me in March I995 at my office at IHEDN to explain to me
his project for creating a new committee for study of UFOs, I assured him ofmy interest
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and referred him to the management ofthe IHEDN Auditors Association (AA), which •
gave him its support. Knowing that some twenty years earlier the AA had produced and
published a preliminary report on the subject in its bulletin, it was but time to update it.
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Denis Letty seemed to me to be the perfect one to spearhead this task~ one month
earlier, in February, he had organized, within the framework ofthe Ecole de l' Air [Air
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Force Academy] Alumni Association, a conference on unidentified aerospace phenomena.
Before a large public, some ofour comrades, former pilots, spontaneously related their
encounters with UFOs. The person in charge ofstudying these phenomena at the CNES
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then presented his results, and a well-known astronomer described a scientifically
acceptable version ofthe extraterrestrial hypothesis.
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The fields ofknowledge affected by the UFO phenomenon are very diverse, and
General Letty was able to find within the AA, but on the outside as well, numerous
experts whose efforts h~ coordinated. The list of high-level civilian and military degrees
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ofthe members ofhis committee is very impressive: officers, engineers, and specialists in
physics, life sciences, and social sciences were able to deal with all aspects ofthe study.
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This is not a purely academic study. Concrete problems are raised, and not only for
civilian and military pilots, that call for a response in tenns ofaction. The makeup of
COMETA [Committee for In-Depth Studies], which is the name ofthe committee, took
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these into account. Almost all ofits members have, or had during the course oftheir
careers, important responsibilities in defense, industry, teaching, research or various
central administrations.
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I express the wish that the recommendations ofCOMETA, which are inspired by good
sense, will be examined and implemented by the authorities ofour country. The first
report of the AA favored the creation within CNES of the only civilian government agency
known in the world dedicated to the study ofUFOs. May this new report, which is much
more in-depth, give new impetus to our national efforts and to indispensable international
cooperation. IHEDN will then have well served the nation and, perhaps, humanity.
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The accumulation ofwell-documented sightings made by credible witnesses forces us
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objects, or UFOs, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis, in particular. UFOs are now a part
ofour media environment; the films, television broadcasts, books, advertisements, etc.,
I dealing with UFOs amply demonstrate this.
Although no characterized threat has been perceived to date in France, it seemed
necessary to the former auditors of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale
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backgrounds, they are grouped together to forrn a private in-depth fact-finding committee,
which was christened COMETA.
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This committee was transformed into a COMETA association, which I chair. I would
like to thank General Bernard Norlain, former director ofIHEDN, and Mr. Andre Lebeau,
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would not have been born.
I In addition, I wish to acknowledge the various people who agreed to give their
testimony or to contribute to this study, and namely:
Jean-Jacques Velasco, Head ofSEPRA at CNES,
Fran~ois Louange, ChiefExecutive Officer ofFlex.image,
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Jean-Charles Duboc, Jean-Pierre Fartek, Rene Giraud, civilian and military
pilots,
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Edmond Campagnac, former technical director ofAir France at Ant