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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 also 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.



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.



My best, (OB .5



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Cell 805-340-5121



Rosin @west.net



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What Should We Prepare For?

i -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.-

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“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 phenomena

that are deemed to come under the heading of popular mythology or that are, at any rate,

| outside the realm of science. Such was the case with stones falling from the sky, which

was long considered in our country to be the stuff of fable. However, the day that a

meteorite shower over the town of Laigle permitted a collective and indisputable

qj observation, it entered into the domain of science. One century later NASA, no doubt

hastily, elevated these stones to proof of the existence of primitive life on Mars.

_ Phenomena of this type pose a preliminary problem for the scientific approach: does a

| scientific fact exist? ,

When the phenomenon is a matter of experimentation, the criterion to be used is simple,

the reproducibility of the experiment is the touchstone and furnishes the fact that must

q 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

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 of scientific

object. The existence of eclipses, comets, and novas has been recognized since ancient

_ times, even though their interpretation long contained - and sometimes still contains - a

| religious dimension. Thus collective and simultaneous observation plays the same role as

the reproducibility of experiments.

This is not true when the event is not only rare but discrete as well, and when there is a

| very small amount of evidence at each occurrence, which opens the door to various

suspicions. Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, fall into this category. One runs up

; against additional difficulties in the case of UFOs, firstly that of how many human

| activities, especially since the beginning of the space age, have generated atmospheric

phenomena the origin of which is not immediately ascertainable by those who observe

(} them. In any case, UFOs, the origin of which 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 of which, although difficult to identify, is not at all

| mysterious.

Moreover, and above all, the existence of unexplained manifestations, both in the

atmosphere and occasionally on the surface of the earth, inevitably gives rise to a

fl fundamental question: are we alone in the universe? Could some of these phenomena be

the work of extraterrestrial beings? This question gives the UFO issue a sociological,

media-related, and even religious dimension in a domain that is not that of science and

| scientific methods. And it is the very existence of this dimension that elicits reactions of

rejection in the scientific community.

However, a dispassionate examination of the situation should lead those who believe in

i the value of scientific method to consider that the very existence of a strong irrational

environment is another reason to apply the precepts of this method to the issue of UFOs.

COMETA has tried its luck at this in the report that it is presenting, supported, namely,

i by the work performed by GEPAN, which later became SEPRA. The significant place

granted to sightings, to testimonies, and to the analysis of cases that have been explained

i shows the major role played here by the establishment of facts. But we also find in this



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 said and done, the question of determining whether or not

those who created this report believe in the existence of extraterrestrial visitors, concealed |

in a variety of phenomena that are surprising in appearance but commonplace with respect

to their cause, is of no real importance. What a scientist believes is important in the

conducting of his research because this is what motivates and drives him. But his belief is |

not important to the results of his research nor does it have any effect on those results if he

is rigorous. y

Table of Contents

PREFACE Page 5 |

FOREWORD Page 6 ‘

INTRODUCTION Page 7 |

PART 1 FACTS AND TESTIMONIES =

Chapter 1 Testimonies of French Pilots ; Page 9

Chapter 2 Aeronautical Cases Throughout the World Page 12 |

Chapter3 Sightings from the Ground Page 17

Chapter 4 Close Encounters in France Page 20

: Chapter 5 Counterexamples of Phenomena That Have Been Explained i

Page 24

PART2 — THEEXTENT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE i

Chapter 6 Organization of the Research in France

Page 27

Chapter 7 Methods and Results of GEPAN/SEPRA Page 31 |

Chapter 8 UFOs: Hypotheses, Modeling Attempts Page 35

Chapter9 Organization of the Research Abroad Page 42

PART 3 UFOs AND DEFENSE 8

Chapter 10 Strategic Planning Page 55

Chapter 11 Aeronautical Implications Page 59 f]

Chapter 12 Scientific and Technical Implications Page 62

Chapter 13 Political and Religious Implications Page 64

Chapter 14 Media Implications Page 69 |

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Page 71

APPENDICES |

Appendix 1 Radar Detection in France Page 74

Appendix 2 Astronomers’ Sightings fi

Page 74

Appendix 3 Life in the Universe Page 75

Appendix 4 Colonization of Space Page 75 i

Appendix 5 The Roswell Affair - Disinformation Page 77

Appendix 6 The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon - Elements of a fi



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Appendix 7 Reflections on Various Psychological, Sociological,



Q} and Political Aspects of the UFO Phenomenon Page

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{] REFERENCES Page 87



GLOSSARY Page 90



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“Concrete problems are raised that call for a response

in terms of action” i

by General Bernard Norlain, |

Former director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense

Nationale

[Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies i

(THEDN)}

When General Letty visited me in March 1995 at my office at IHEDN to explain to me |

his project for creating a new committee for study of UFOs, I assured him of my interest

and referred him to the management of the 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. :

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 of the Ecole de I’ Air [Air ‘

Force Academy] Alumni Association, a conference on unidentified aerospace phenomena. |

Before a large public, some of our comrades, former pilots, spontaneously related their

encounters with UFOs. The person in charge of studying these phenomena at the CNES

. _ then presented his results, and a well-known astronomer described a scientifically i

acceptable version of the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

The fields of knowledge 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 he coordinated. The list of high-level civilian and military degrees

of the members of his committee is very impressive: officers, engineers, and specialists in |

physics, life sciences, and social sciences were able to deal with all aspects of the study.

This is not a purely academic study. Concrete problems are raised, and not only for 8

civilian and military pilots, that call for a response in terms of action. The makeup of

COMETA [Committee for In-Depth Studies], which is the name of the committee, took

these into account. Almost all of its members have, or had during the course of their f

careers, important responsibilities in defense, industry, teaching, research or various |

central administrations.

I express the wish that the recommendations of COMETA, which are inspired by good f

sense, will be examined and implemented by the authorities of our 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 of UFOs. May this new report, which is much ki

more in-depth, give new impetus to our national efforts and to indispensable international

cooperation. THEDN will then have well served the nation and, perhaps, humanity. fi

“Consider all of the hypotheses” i)



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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 hypothesis, in particular. UFOs are now a part

of our media environment; the films, television broadcasts, books, advertisements, etc.,

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 Défense Nationale

(THEDN) to take stock of the subject. Along with qualified experts from extremely varied

| backgrounds, they are grouped together to form a private in-depth fact-finding committee,

which was christened COMETA.

| This committee was transformed into a COMETA association, which I chair. I would

like to thank General Bernard Norlain, former director of IHEDN, and Mr. André Lebeau,

former chairman of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, without whom COMETA

| would not have been born.

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 Vélasco, Head of SEPRA at CNES,

5 Francois Louange, Chief Executive Officer of Fleximage,

‘ Jean-Charles Duboc, Jean-Pierre Fartek, René Giraud, civilian and military

pilots,

j Edmond Campagnac, former technical director of Air France at Antananarivo,

Michel Perrier, Squadron Commander, Gendarmerie Nationale

M. Soun, of the Direction Générale de |’ Aviation Civile [Civil Aviation Agency]

q Joseph Domange, Air Force General, Auditors Association delegate general.

NN

I must also thank the commander of the Air Force Air Operations Command Center for

J its participation during the investigation into flight AF 3532 on January 28, 1994.

Among the members of COMETA who spared no effort for close to three years, it is

possible for me to list:

i Michel Algrin, State Doctor of Political Science, attorney-at-law, AA (35), (J)

Pierre Bescond, Weapons Engineer General, 2nd Section, AA (48),

| Denis Blancher, Chief of Police, Police Nationale, Ministry of the Interior,

Jean Dunglas, Doctor of Engineering (Ret.), in Water and Foredtry Management AR

(48)

{ Bruno Le Moine, Air Force General, 2nd Section, AA (41),

Francoise Lépine, Fondation pour les Etudes de Défense [Foundation for Defense

Studies], AA (33),

| Christian Marchal, Chief Mining Engineer, Research Director at ONERA

[National Aerospace Study and Research Office],

Marc Merlo, Admiral, 2nd Section, AA (35),

| Alain Orszag, Doctor of Physical Sciences, Weapons Engineer General, 2nd

Section.



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INTRODUCTION i

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 objective: to make proposals for organizing research and the I

collection of data on these phenomena. The-goal was achieved, because the

recommendations of this committee were followed by the creation of the Groupe d’Etude

des Phénoménes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés (GEPAN) [Unidentified Aerospace A

Phenomena Study Group], the precursor to the current Service d’Expertise des

Phénoménes de Rentrée Atmosphérique (SEPRA) [Atmospheric Reentry Phenomena i il

Consulting Department], a division of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), q

which is in charge of this file. Twenty years later, it seemed useful to us to take stock

once again of the knowledge regarding these sightings, which are becoming of greater and :

greater interest to a large public that is often convinced of the extraterrestrial origin of |

UFOs. Just look at the number of films or television broadcasts on this subject. }

For the sake of convenience with respect to language, we will use the term UFO .

(Unidentified Flying Object) generally, instead of the more scientific term UAP |

(Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon).

Without a doubt, the phenomenon remains and the number of sightings, which are

completely unexplained despite the abundance and quality of data, is growing throughout R

the world. On the ground, some sightings, like the Trans-en-Provence sighting in 1981,

have been the subject of in-depth studies proving that something did in fact land on the

ground and parked there. Civilian and military pilots have provided gripping visual a

testimonies, often corroborated by radar recordings, as was the case recently in France. In

view of the lack of irrefutable proof regarding the origin of these phenomena, the need for :

understanding persists. i

We will devote the first part of this report to several particularly remarkable French and

foreign cases.



In the second part, after having recalled the current organization of the research on |

these phenomena in France and abroad, we will evaluate the work being done by scientists

worldwide who are interested in UFOs and are Proposing, as we will see, partial :

explanations that are based on known laws of physics. |



Some of these (propulsion systems, non lethal weapons, etc.) could become realities in

the short, medium and long term.



We will review the principal global explanations proposed, focusing on those that are in A

keeping with the current scientific data, which Tange from secret weapons to

extraterrestrial manifestations.



The UFO phenomenon involves defense in the broad sense and calls for a certain |

number of measures, which we will examine in the last part:



- [providing] civilian and military pilots with sufficient information to teach them an bs

adapted conduct when faced with these phenomena and, more generally, [providing] the i

public and decision-makers with information,



- developing the actions of SEPRA and Promoting supplemental scientific monitoring,

or even research, actions, |



- considering the strategic, political, and religious consequences of a possible

confirmation of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, the bizarre connotation of which it is



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i PART 1



| 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:



q - three testimonies of French civilian and military pilots who encountered UFOs in flight,

- five major aeronautical cases in the world,

- three sightings from the ground,



| - four cases of close encounters in France. ,

These few examples are among the hundreds of remarkable, that is to say credible and

well-documented, cases observed around the world in recent decades. None of these



| cases has been explained, whereas the majority of times the investigations enable the origin

of the phenomena observed by the witnesses to be determined; we will give two significant



Q examples of this.



. _ Chapter 1 - Testimonies of French Pilots



i Three French pilots who encountered UFOs in flight came to testify before the

committee. Their testimonies are all the more interesting because they can be evaluated



fl better than other aerial phenomena since they pertain to the aeronautic world.



& 1.1 M. Giraud, Mirage IV pilot (March 7, 1977).



The sequence of events of this incident was reconstructed from radio exchanges



between the pilot and the controller, which are routinely recorded and kept for a specific



fl period of time in accordance with the procedure in force at all control centers. The

incident occurred on March 7, 1977, at around 2100 hours local time during the Dijon



| flyover when the Mirage IV was returning, the automatic pilot engaged, to Luxeuil after a

night mission. [The aircraft was] at an altitude of 9600 m and flying at a speed of “Mach

0.9.” The flight conditions were very good. The pilot (P), Hervé Giraud, and his



| navigator (N) observed a very bright glow at “3 o’clock” (time code) from their aircraft,

at the same altitude, coming on a collision course and approaching very rapidly. We will

designate it “assailant” (A1) in the rest of the account. P queried the Contrexéville



j military radar station that controlled them to ask whether they had a radar contact on the

aircraft coming towards them. In fact, P and N thought that it was an air defense

interceptor, as is currently being used, that was seeking to intercept their aircraft to then



a identify it with its identification beacon.



The radar controller (C), who did not have a corresponding radar contact on his scope,



gave a negative response and asked the pilots to check their oxygen. This request on the



i) part of the controller is a standard emergency procedure; it shows that the controller is so



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surprised by the crew’s question that he suspects an oxygen problem capable of causing a

“hallucination.” |

“Assailant Al” maintained its course towards the Mirage IV. P initiated a bank to the

right toward Al, a bank which he was forced to keep tightening (3 to 4 g) in order to try

to maintain visual contact on Al and to keep it from positioning itself to the rear. Despite I

this maneuver, Al moved behind the Mirage IV at an estimated distance of 1500 m. At

this point P reversed his bank to regain visual contact on Al. He saw the glow move

away to “11 o’clock.” He resumed course to Luxeuil. But 45 seconds after he resumed |

course to Luxeuil, feeling like he was being “watched” according to his own words, P

told N, “you wait and see, it’s going to come back.” And in fact, an identical glow,

which we will call A2, appeared at “3 o’clock.” |

P then initiated a very tight bank (6.5 g) to disengage his aircraft from what he now

considered to be a real threat. The glow followed the Mirage IV’s maneuver in order to

position itself to the rear at an estimated distance of 2000 m. P reversed, as before, and B

once again saw the glow disappear under the same conditions. C still did not have a radar 5

contact on “assailant A2.” P and N continued their flight and returned normally to the s

Luxeuil base. i

Those are the facts. Two points should be emphasized: pes

- only a combat aircraft could have had performance comparable to that of Al and A2

(speed, maneuverability). In this case, C would have had a radar contact on this aircraft, |

especially at that altitude, a contact that he would have seen all the better since there was

no other traffic in the vicinity of the Mirage IV. ?

" - given the apparent maneuvers of Al and A2, regardless of whether or not they were i

the same craft, their speed could only be supersonic, which, in the case of combat aircraft,

would be manifested on the ground by a very loud sonic boom due to the phenomenon of

the focusing of the shock wave generated by the bank. This would have been noticed in |

the surrounding area, especially since it was nighttime. But no sound was heard in the

region. 1

1.2 Testimony of a Fighter Pilot (March 3, 1976)

Since this pilot (P) wanted to preserve his anonymity, the following lines are extracted |

from the written deposition that he wished to send to us (he revealed his name

subsequently; he is Colonel Claude Bosc). On March 3, 1976, P, then a student pilot at i

the Combat Flight School at Tours, was making a solo night flight in a T-33 training

aircraft. The mission consisted of navigating at an altitude of 6000 m following a Rennes-

Nantes-Poitiers itinerary, then landing at Tours. Several aircraft were following the same |

itinerary at 5-minute intervals. The night was dark but cloudless, and the towns could be

detected very clearly at the flight altitude in question. Visibility was greater than 100 km.

While he was flying stabilized at an altitude of 6000 m, at a speed of 460 km/h, P first saw |

straight ahead, very far off in the distance (at the detection limit of lights on the ground)

what he at first thought was the launching of a green signaling flare.

In | to 2 seconds, this flare exceeded the altitude of his aircraft by 1500 m and seemed |

to level off in space before descending in his direction. It approached at a dizzying speed

on a collision course with the aircraft and filled the entire front windshield of the cockpit.

Thinking that impact was inevitable, P let go of the joystick and crossed his arms in front |

of his face in a reflex protection gesture. The aircraft was completely enveloped in a very

bright and phosphorescent green light. P saw a sphere (S) that avoided his aircraft at the |



very last moment and passed over his right wing grazing it, all within a fraction ofa

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

fluorescent green color,

| - the center of S consisted of a very bright white light (magnesium-fire type),

- the sighting lasted a total of less than 5 seconds.

P, who was very shocked by this phenomenon, informed the radar controller (-)

i ensuring the control of the mission on the ground; the controller had not detected anything

on his radar scope. Upon return, two other pilots who had followed the same itinerary as

(J P stated that they had seen the phenomenon, but from a distance.

| 1.3 Air France Flight AF 3532 (January 28, 1994) .

Jean-Charles Duboc (P), captain of Air France flight AF 3532, was assisted by Copilot

Valérie Chauffour (CP) in making the Nice-London connection on January 28, 1994. At

| 1314 hours, while they were cruising at an altitude of 11,900 m in the vicinity of

Coulommiers in Seine-et-Marne [Department] under excellent meteorological conditions,

the chief steward, who was present in the cockpit at the time, pointed out a phenomenon

| that appeared to him to be a weather balloon. His sighting was immediately confirmed by

the copilot. P, who in turn saw it, first thought that it was an aircraft banking at a 45°

angle. Very quickly, however, all three agreed that what they were seeing did not

| resemble anything that they knew of. The excellent visibility and the presence of

altocumulus clouds permitted P to estimate that the phenomenon was at an altitude of

10,500 m and at a distance of approximately 50 km. Taking into account its apparent

| diameter, they deduced that the craft was large. They were struck by the changes in the

shape of the craft, which first appeared in the form of a brown bell before transforming

into a chestnut brown lens shape, then disappéaring almost instantaneously on the left side

| of the aircraft, as if it had suddenly become invisible. P reported to the Reims Air

Navigation Control Center, which had no information on any mobile air presence in the

vicinity. However, following the existing procedure, Reims informed the Taverny Air

| Defense Operations Center (CODA) of the sighting made by the crew and asked P to

follow the “Airmiss” procedure upon landing.

CODA did in fact record a radar track initiated by the Cinq-Mars-la-Pile control center

t at the same time that corresponded in location and time to the phenomenon observed.

This radar track, which was recorded for 50 seconds, did cross the trajectory of flight AF

3532 and did not correspond to any flight plan filed. It should be noted that the

a phenomenon disappeared from the view of the crew and the radar scopes at the same

instant. The investigations conducted by CODA enabled both the hypothesis of a weather

balloon to be ruled out and the precise crossing distance of the two trajectories to be

{| determined, consequently bringing the approximate length of the craft to 250 m in length.

It should be noted that the Northern Regional Air Navigation Center (CRNA), which

| handles 3000 movements per day, has investigated only three cases over the last seven

years, one of which was that of flight AF 3532.

| Chapter 2 - Aeronautic Cases Throughout the World



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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 fj

occurred in different parts of the world and which were the subject of an investigation by

the authorities of the countries in question. In four cases, the objects were detected both

visually and by radar. In the fifth case, they were observed by a number of independent |

witnesses.

2.1 Lakenheath (United Kingdom) (August 13-14, 1956) A

The joint USAF - U.S. Air Force - and RAF [Royal Air Force] military bases of

Lakenheath and Bentwaters are located 30 km northeast of Cambridge with respect to the |

first and near the coast to the east of this city with respect to the second. Unknown aerial

objects followed by their radars during the night of August 13 to 14, 1956, were judged

“unidentified” by the report published in 1969 by the Condon Commission tasked with |

evaluating the research of the U.S. Air Force on UFOs (ef. Chapter 9). In September

1971, the magazine Astronautics and Aeronautics published a study of the case by Thayer,

the radar expert on the Condon Commission, which was based in part on a study |

presented in 1969 by Professor MacDonald, an atmospheric physicist. For the record, we :

point out that on several occasions, and namely in 1976, Philippe Klass, editor of the P

journal Aviation Week and Space Technology, attempted to criticize this work and to |

reduce the case to a series of ordinary events (meteorites, radar propagation anomalies,

etc.). The incidents began at the Bentwaters base, preceded, between 2100 and 2200

hours, by unusual sightings of the approach control radar [center], which we will not go i

into in further detail. They took place as follows:

- At 2255 hours, the radar detected an unidentified object moving east to west passing

over the base, always almost into the wind at an apparent speed of 2000 to 4000 miles per i

hour (mph), or 3200 to 6400 km/h. No sonic boom was mentioned. The personnel of the

Bentwaters control tower said they saw a bright light flying over the ground from east to z

west “at an incredible speed” at an altitude of approximately 1200 m. At the same time, |

the pilot of a military transport plane flying over Bentwaters at an altitude of 1200 m

stated that a bright light passed under his plane tearing east to west “at an incredible |

speed.” The two visual sightings confirmed the radar detection.



- The Bentwaters radar operator reported these concurring radar and visual sightings to

the shift supervisor at the Lakenheath [air] traffic radar control center, an American A

noncommissioned officer to whom we are indebted for a quite detailed report of these

sightings and those that follow. The report, which was sent to the Condon Commission in ;

1968 by the then retired NCO, is coherent and does not contradict the documents in the |

USAF [Project] Blue Book file except in a few minor points; among these documents, the

regulation telex sent by Lakenheath to the Blue Book team on the day of the incident and

the report forwarded two weeks later to that same team by American Captain Holt, an i

intelligence officer at Bentwaters.



- The shift supervisor at the Lakenheath base alerted his radar operators. One of them ;

detected a stationary object approximately 40 km southwest of the base, almost in the axis |

of the trajectory of the supersonic object seen at 2255 hours. The shift supervisor called

the Lakenheath approach radar [center], which confirmed the sighting. The radar

technicians at the air traffic control center suddenly saw the object immediately go from i

immobility to a speed of 600 to 950 km/h. The shift supervisor notified the base

commander @



The object changed direction several times, describing line segments ranging from 13 to

f 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 knv/h without any transition.

Visual sightings were made from the ground and confirmed the high speed and

| astounding accelerations. The regulation telex sent by Lakenheath concluded: “The fact

. that radar and ground visual observations were made on its rapid acceleration and abrupt stop

certainly lend credence to the report."

| - After 30 to 45 minutes, the RAF sent a night fighter, a Venom two-seater, in pursuit

of the object. The Lakenheath air traffic radar control center guided it in the direction of ;

the object 10 km east of the center. The pilot acquired the target visually and on radar,

| then lost it. The center then directed the plane 16 km to the east of Lakenheath; the pilot

again acquired the target and said, “my machine guns are locked onto him.” A short time

afterward, he once again lost his target; but the target was followed by the radar operators

| at the center. They informed the pilot that the object had made a rapid movement to

position itself behind him and was following him at a short distance. The pilot confirmed

[this]. Watched by the radar technicians, the pilot tried every maneuver for about 10

| minutes in order to move back behind the object (steep climbs, dives, sustained turns), but

he didn’t succeed: the UFO followed him at a constant distance according to the ground

- radar stations. Finally, low on fuel, he returned to base, asking that someone tell him

B whether the object continued to follow him. The UFO did, in fact, follow him for a short

distance, then came to a standstill. The radar technicians then saw the object make several

short moves, then leave in a northerly direction at about 950 km/h and disappear from

| radar range at 0330 hours.

- A Venom sent to replace the first had to quickly return to base due to mechanical

problems before having been able to establish contact with the object.

| Thayer concluded his article in the journal Astronautics and Aeronautics in this manner:

" taking into consideration the high credibility of information and cohesiveness and continuity

of account, combined with a high degree of ‘strangeness’, it is also certainly one of the most :

| disturbing UFO incidents known today."

| 2.2 The RB-47 Aircraft in the United States (July 17, 1957)

This case, which appears as “unidentified” in the Condon report, has been cited and

studied extensively for 40 years. Physicist James MacDonald published the results of his

A investigation in 1971 in the journal Astronautics and Aeronautics. Phillip Klass, the

aforementioned journalist, then endeavored in 1976 to trivialize the facts, which was

highly contestable from the outset. The bulk of this interpretation was refuted at the end

a of 1997, upon completion of an in-depth investigation contained in a memorandum from

the aerospace technology researcher Brad Sparks.

We will summarize here the important sequences of events of the case, which show a

‘ luminous unidentified flying object detected at night not only by sight and on radar, but

also by pulsed microwave emissions coming from its direction:

| The RB-47 was a bomber the bomb bays of which had been converted to hold three

officers each equipped with means enabling emissions from ground radars to be detected

and their azimuth direction, but not their distance or the nature of the signals, to be

| specified. In the south central region of the United States, where the aircraft was making

a training flight that day, numerous radar stations were emitting signals the frequencies of

5 which were close to 3000 MHz and the pulses of which lasted 1 microsecond and



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 related that:



- The first incident took place above Mississippi, probably at around 0930Z (0330 local |

time), when the aircraft, going back to the north from the Gulf of Mexico, was J

approaching the coast a little to the east of the Mississippi delta, flying at Mach 0.75.



Captain MacClure detected on his screen a blip corresponding to a pulsed microwave |

source located behind and to the right of the RB-47 (at “5 o’clock”) that rapidly passed



the aircraft and turned around it, departing again on its left in the other direction (between



“6 o’clock and 9 o’clock”). The source was therefore airborne and supersonic. MacClure 3

noted the characteristics of the signal: they were those of the aforementioned ground radar



stations, with the exception of the length of the pulses, which were 2 microseconds. He



did not report this incident immediately, thinking that it was perhaps a malfunction of the |

electronics. As Klass writes, at the time there were no supersonic aircraft either in the :

United States or in the USSR large enough to transport a radar, the signal ffom which



possessed the characteristics that were observed. }



- The following incident occurred at 1010Z in Louisiana, when Commander Chase, $

pilot, and Captain MacCoyd, copilot, saw an intense bluish-white light aim at the aircraft

from “11 o’clock,” then jump from their left to their right and disappear while it was at “2 |

o’clock.” Klass showed that this object was perhaps a meteorite the trajectory of which



caused an optical illusion, but, at the time, Chase and MacCoyd wondered whether it

wasn’t a UFO. Hearing them, MacClure remembered his prior detection and looked for a [

signal of the same type.

- He found this signal at 1030Z, which was identical to the previous one and, perhaps

by coincidence, came from “2 0’clock.” This signal was confirmed by Captain |

Provenzano, whose detector was itself also able to operate at around 3000 MHz. It could °

not have been the signal from a fixed radar, because its “2 o0’clock” direction remained

unchanged when the aircraft followed its route to the west for several minutes. The i

aircraft entered Texas, then came within range of the “Utah” radar [center] located near

Dallas. The crew reported to Utah, which detected both the aircraft and an object

maintaining a constant distance of 18 km from it. |

- At 10392Z, still in Texas, Commander Chase perceived a large red light, which he

estimated was moving 1500 m below the aircraft at approximately “2 o’clock.” The >

aircraft was flying at an altitude of 10,500 m, and the weather was perfectly clear. |

Although the commander was not able to determine either the shape or the size of the

object, he had the distinct impression that the light was emanating from the top of the

object. |

At 1040Z, he received authorization to pursue this object and notified Utah. He

slowed down, then accelerated; Utah informed him that the object was mirroring his

movements, all the while maintaining a constant distance of 18 km. q

- At 1042Z, Chase accelerated and saw the red object turn to the right in the direction

of Dallas; this was confirmed by MacClure.

- At around 1050Z, a little to the west of Dallas, the object stopped and simultaneously i

disappeared from the view of the radar(s) (Utah and the onboard radar that had just

detected the object when the RB-47 had approached it) and from MacClure’s screen (the

disappearance of an object from a radar screen is less surprising nowadays; it calls to mind |

the active stealth technologies currently in development if not in operation). The aircraft

then banked to the left. MacClure picked up a signal that was perhaps the one from Utah. |



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 Dallas, the object reappeared on MacClure’s screen, and

: Utah indicated

; that it had prepared a “CIR VIS” (Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital

| Intelligence Sightings) report, a secret urgent radio report sent to the Air Defense

Command, which is mandatory in the event of a sighting by the Air Force of an

unidentified aerial object. At 10582Z, the pilot regained visual contact at “2 o’clock.” A

| few minutes later, seeing his fuel reserves drop, he decided to return and headed roughly

north toward Oklahoma City. The object then positioned itself behind the aircraft at a

distance of 18 km, as reported by Utah, which tried to send fighter jets in pursuit of the

| unknown [object]. The object, flowing lower than the RB-47 and behind it, could not be

seen from the cockpit, but it was detected on MacClure’s screen until Oklahoma City, well

outside the range of the Utah radar. Then it suddenly disappeared from the screen at

| 1140Z.

(] 2.3 Tehran (September 18 to 19, 1976)

This incident took place during the night of September 18 to 19, 1976. Different

| newspapers worldwide reported it more or less accurately: for example, France-Soir in

the September 21st issue. An American citizen took laborious steps with the U.S.

authorities to obtain a report, invoking the freedom of information act. He finally obtained

Al it from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Other U.S. documents have been obtained

since then.

Interviews with generals and the Iranian air [traffic] controller involved in this affair

{| enabled the DIA report to be confirmed and supplemented a bit, namely with the mention

of proper names. The following summary resulted from a reading of the all the

information:

| - At around 11:00 p.m. on September 18, the Tehran airport control tower received

several calls reporting a strange immobile luminous object in the sky above the Shemiran

residential district in the northern part of the capital. The person in charge of the night

fi shift, Hossain Perouzi, went out to look at the object with binoculars. He testified that he

saw a rectangle, probably corresponding to a cylindrical object, the ends of which pulsed

bluish-white lights. In the middle of the object, a small red light described a circle.

| Perouzi reported this strange sighting to the Imperial Air Force Command, which alerted

General Youssefi, the third in command of this air force. He went out on his balcony and

saw an object similar to a star, but much bigger and brighter; he ordered a Phantom F-4

q reaction aircraft, the mission of which he directed through Perouzi as intermediary.

When the F-4 came to 45 km from the object, its flight instruments and all its means of

communication (radio and intercom) suddenly stopped working. The pilot aborted the

a interception and headed for his base. The crew then regained use of their instruments and

means of communication.

- A second F-4 was sent by General Youssefi. The UFO’s echo on its screen was

| similar to that of a Boeing 707. The F-4 approached the UFO at a relative speed of 280

km/h. When it came to 45 km from it, the UFO accelerated and maintained a constant

4 distance of 45 km from the F-4. The crew was not able to determine the size of the object



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 for the F-4. The pilot tried to shoot a

Sidewinder missile at the object, but at the same instant his fire control console and his |

means of communication (radio and intercom) became inoperable. He promptly initiated a i

bank and a dive, but the object changed direction and pursued the aircraft at a distance of

approximately 6 km. Finally, the object moved inside the F-4’s bank and departed in order |

to reenter the UFO from which it had exited.

- A short time afterwards, an object again exited the UFO and rapidly headed straight

down to the ground. The F-4 crew waited to see it explode, but the object seemed to |

touch down gently and shine a very bright light over an area 2 to 3 km in diameter. The

crew, momentarily blinded, orbited long enough to recover their night vision before

landing at the Tehran airfield. It noted that it lost communications (radio and intercom) |

whenever their aircraft crossed a certain zone. It should be pointed out that a civilian :

aircraft also lost communications when it crossed that zone. The next day, the crew was

taken by helicopter to the place where the object had apparently landed, a dried up lake, |

but it didn’t find any trace [of the object]. :

An attached note from DIA was just as astonishing as the report itself; it indicated that

the information had been confirmed-by other sources and ended with this assessment: i

“An outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a valid .

study of the UFO phenomenon."

a. The object was seen by multiple witnesses from different locations..., i

5. The credibility of many of the witnesses was high (an Air Force General, qualified aircrews, and

experienced radar operators),

¢. Visual sightings were confirmed by radar,

& Similar electromagnetic effects (EME) were reported by three separate aircraft, |

&. There were physiological effects on some crew members (i.e. loss of night vision due to the

brightness of the object), "

Lf. An inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.” |

The attempt by Klass to trivialize this case shows how solid it is.

2.4 Russia (March 21, 1990) |

This case took place at night in the Pereslavl-Zalesski region east of Moscow. It was

reported in an article by Aviation General Igor Maltsev, Air Defense Forces commander, |

which appeared in the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna (“Workers’ Tribune”) on April 19,

1990, entitled “UFOs on Air Defense Radars” (cf. the book by Marie Galbraith

referenced in Chapter 9.1). |

The article mentions the dispatch of combat aircraft on a mission to intercept the UFOs

detected. General Maltsev, who summarized over one hundred visual sightings collected

by unit commanders, stated: |

“Iam not a specialist in UFOs, and therefore I can only correlate the data and express my own .

supposition. According to the evidence of these eyewitnesses, the UFO is a disk with a diameter from .

100 to 200 meters [320 to 650 feets]. Two pulsating lights were positioned on its sides... Moreover, the |

object rotated around its axis and performed an 'S-turn' flight both in the vertical and horizontal

planes. Next the UFO_ hovered above the ground and then flew with a speed exceeding that of the

modern jet fighter by two or three times... The objects flew at altitudes ranging from 100 to 7000 m.

[300 to 24,000 feet]. The movement of the UFOs was not accompanied by sound of any kind and was f

distinguished by its startling maneu verability. It seemed the UFOs were completely devoid of inertia.

In other words, they had_somehow 'come to terms' with gravity. At the present time, terrestrial i



machines could hardly have such capabilities.”

[| 2.5 San Carlos de Bariloche (July 31, 1995)

Source SEPRA

A 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

| preparing to land.

At that precise instant, a power outage plunged the town into darkness, and the pilot

received the order to stay on standby for a few minutes before making his final approach.

| When he began his approach, the pilot noticed a strange star. At the same time, the

control center put a second airplane that had arrived in the sector on standby. Flight AR

674 continued its approach, but when it had completed its turn and was in the axis of the

| runway, an object resembling a large aircraft appeared on its right side and flew parallel to

it! This object had three lights, one of which was red, in the middle of it. The airport

lights failed again, and the runway and approach ramp lights also went out. The airplane

| on standby observed the same phenomenon from its position.

Since the pilot could not land, he pulled up and turned again in order to reposition

himself in the axis of the runway. At that moment, the object, which had become

a luminous, moved behind the airplane, stopped, ascended vertically, and once again

stopped. It moved back in front of the airplane before finally disappearing in the direction

of the Andes Cordillera. The crew and passengers of flight AR 674, those on the other

| airplane, the airport controllers, and some of the inhabitants of San Carlos watched this

unusual aerial ballet dumbfounded.

| This case is interesting in more than one respect:

- the sighting was corroborated by multiple independent observers both in flight and on

; the ground,

| - the phenomenon lasted several minutes,

- there were different trajectories, some of which closely followed those of the airplane,

_ there was an observation of an electromagnetic phenomenon (the lights of the town

| and the airport went out) directly related to the presence of the object.

A Chapter 3 - Sightings from the Ground

This chapter deals with sightings from the ground, two of which were reported to the

committee by direct witnesses of the phenomena observed. Here again, their testimonies

| are all the more interesting since they pertain to the aeronautic world and the phenomena

were observed during the day.

H 3.1 Phenomenon Observed by Numerous Witnesses at Antananarivo (August 16,

i 1954)

Testimony before the committee

Edmond Campagnac (C), a former artillery officer and former chief of technical

i services for Air France in Madagascar who is now retired, came to testify before the

committee. The phenomenon described below occurred on August 16, 1954, in



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 fi

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 meteorite. The phenomenon disappeared

behind a hill, and they thought that the green ball was going to crash into the ground and A

that they were going to feel the impact.

However, it reappeared after a minute. In passing directly over the observers, it

revealed itself to be “a sort of metal rugby ball preceded by a clearly detached green |

lens[-shaped portion] with sparks issuing from the rear.” In the estimation of the

witnesses, the “ball” was the length of a DC4 airplane, or some forty meters long. The

green lens[-shaped portion] separated itself [and remained] a little less than 40 m out in |

front, with fairly long sparks [coming out] in the rear. The craft flew over Antananarivo at

an estimated height of 50 to 100 meters, an estimation that was made possible by

comparison with the height of a nearby hill. When the craft was moving, shop lights went |

out, and animals exhibited a real anxiety. A

After having flown over Antananarivo, the craft departed in a westerly direction. When

it flew over the zebu park in the town, the craft caused a violent fright reaction among |

them. This is a surprising detail, since normally these animals do not show any agitation ead

when Air France planes pass by. Two or three minutes later, an identical craft was

observed 150 km from there above a farm school. There, too, the herds were overcome |

with panic. If the craft sighted was the same one as the one in Antananarivo, its speed

would have had to be on the order of 3000 km/h. According to C’s account, General

Fleurquin, Commander-in-Chief in Madagascar, assembled a “scientific commission” to A

conduct an investigation into these phenomena. No trace of this investigation could be

found in the Air Force archives; however, GEPA (Groupe d’Etudes des Phenoménes

Aérospatiaux [Aerospace Phenomena Study Group]) bulletin no. 6 of the 2nd half of 1964 |

described this sighting. .

3.2 Sighting by a Pilot of a Saucer Close to the Ground (December 9, 1979) F

GEPAN/SEPRA investigation and testimony before the committee

At the time of the incident, former Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Pierre Fartek (F) |

was a Mirage III pilot in the 2nd fighter squadron at Dijon. F is currently a pilot for a

private company. F was living, and still lives, in the same village near Dijon. His house is

located at the end of a housing development looking out onto fields. Approximately 250 j

m away is a grove of trees with an average height of 15 mat maximum. On December 9,

1979, at around 9:15 a.m., F and his wife saw an unusual object (hereinafter called M) in

the field near their house. The weather and visibility were excellent. M, the dimensions of hi

which they estimated to be 20 m in diameter by 7 m thick, was hovering approximately 3

m above the ground in front of the grove of trees, which partially concealed it. In

complete agreement with his wife, witness F described it as: i

- having the shape of two superposed saucers with very distinct contours inverted one

on top of the other and not exhibiting any portholes or lights,

- being metallic gray on the upper portion and darker (bluish) on the lower portion, |

with a perfectly delimited separation between the upper side and the underside of the craft.

This color difference could not be due to a difference in lighting given the position of the |

sun,

- in constant motion as a result of very slight oscillations, the frequency of which was

not very rapid, like something trying to balance, |



- 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 that M tilted slightly forward (as a helicopter does

after lift-off when it begins level flight). F saw M leave in a horizontal direction at a very

low altitude without making any noise, without leaving any trail, and at a very high speed

| and disappear on the horizon in a few seconds. F reported [the incident] to the

Gendarmerie de I’ Air at the Dijon air base. He thought that other people had seen the

phenomenon but had not dared to go report it, namely, his neighbors and their children,

who reportedly made the same sighting.

This sighting by a pilot professionally well informed of aeronautical phenomena was

never explained.

i 3.3 A Case of Multiple Witnesses at a Russian Missile Base (July 28-29, 1989)

ia Heading the UFO reports declassified by the KGB in 1991 is a file relating to an army

missile base near Kapustin Yar in the region of Astrakhan, which was related in Marie

Galbraith’s book (cf. Chapter 9.1). The English-speaking public learned of it through the

| Muscovite journal AURA-Z of March 1993. Military personnel from two centers on the

base prepared written depositions of their visual sightings, which were made under good

visibility conditions. The file, which is incomplete, does not mention any possible radar

| detections. It begins with a brief summary of the case, the author of which was an

anonymous KGB officer, followed by an account of seven written testimonies:

- Five testimonies from the first center were provided by Lieutenant Klimenko, two

( corporals, and two soldiers. On the night of July 28 to 29, these military personnel sighted

UFOs between 2215 and 2355 hours at a distance of 3 to 5 km. Up to three objects were

seen simultaneously. One object silently made jerky movements, with very abrupt starts

| and stops, and periods of immobility. All of the witnesses saw a fighter jet attempt to

approach one UFO, which escaped at lightning speed, “giving the impression that the

aircraft was hovering.” Only the noise from the aircraft was heard, whereas the UFO

| must have reached supersonic speed.

- Two other testimonies from a center near the first one concern the sighting of a UFO

from 2330 to 0130 hours at a distance ranging from a few kilometers to 300 m. This UFO

{i was described by Second Lieutenant Volochine as a disk 4-5 m in diameter, surmounted

by a brightly lit hemispherical dome. The second lieutenant attached a sketch of the

saucer to his deposition. The saucer sometimes moved abruptly, but soundlessly, and

| sometimes remained immobile 20-60 m above the ground. In the company of soldier

Tichaev, Volochine saw it emitting a phosphorescent green light, hovering 300 m from

them and some 20 m above a missile depot; it illuminated this depot for several seconds

iH with a moving beam of light.

In a report that was consistent with the report of his superior, soldier Tichaev stressed

the lack of noise made by the object, even when a short distance away, which prevented

| him from confusing it with a helicopter. The two witnesses, who were joined after some

time by the guard team, had watched the maneuvers of the object above the center and the

| surrounding area for two hours.

i Chapter 4 - Close Encounters in France



4.1 Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence [Department] (July 1, 1965) fi

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 starting his tractor at



around 6:00 a.m., he lit a cigarette and at that moment heard a hissing sound that attracted



his attention. Emerging from behind a pile of stones, he saw an object resting in his field |

approximately 90 m from him. Its shape was reminiscent of that of a “Dauphine”



automobile standing on six legs with a central pivot. He approached it with caution, at a



distance of ten meters or so, thinking he might surprise people about to steal his lavender |

from him. He then saw two small beings, one of whom, who was tumed in his direction,



reportedly pointed a tube at him that he took from a sort of bag hanging on his left side.



Maurice Masse indicated that he was totally immobilized in place, numbed and paralyzed, |

but completely aware of the events that were unfolding before his eyes. The two beings

then got back in their craft. He watched them while they were behind a sort of dome, and



he heard a heavy noise when the object lifted up off the ground. He also remarked that i

the tube that was under the object, touching the ground, began to turn, as well as the six ba

legs, which retracted under the machine. The object then ascended in a vertical direction 8

before tilting diagonally and disappearing more rapidly than a jet. Maurice Masse



remained immobilized in this manner for about 15 minutes before coming to, then :

resuming his work and going to tell his story in the village, where the gendarmes, having fl

learned of the incident, questioned him during the day.



The Valensole gendarmerie force, then the Digne investigations squad, investigated this

case for several days. The investigations of the gendarmerie established the existence, at |

the spot indicated by Maurice Masse, of a depression impressed into the ground, which

had been soaked in that place. In the center of it was a cylindrical hole 18 cm in diameter

and 40 cm deep with smooth walls. At the bottom of the hole were three other bent holes |

6 cm in diameter. Along the object’s axis of flight, over some one hundred meters, the

lavender beds were dried up. This phenomenon lasted for several years, during which time

the witness tried in vain to replant the plants within a radius of several meters around the |

tracks.



Despite a few contradictory elements in Maurice Masse’s account, the data collected by ;

the two gendarme brigades confirmed the plausibility of the facts, particularly the effect on fi

the environment and on the witness himself, who slept twelve to fifteen hours a night,

followed by the paralysis of which he had been a victim, for several months. The ‘

investigation into the witness’s character did not turn up any specific information that ij

would permit one to suspect him of mythomaniac behavior or of staging a hoax.



4.2 Cussac, Cantal [Department] (August 29, 1967) i



GEPAN/SEPRA investigation



The Cussac incident has occupied a special place among the UFO cases, since a second |

inquiry was conducted in 1978, as an example, at the request of the GEPAN scientific

council. On August 29, 1967, at around 10:30 a.m., during a beautiful sunny morning on

the high plateaus in the center of France, two young children were watching the family’s |

herd. The dog that accompanied them alerted them that a cow was getting ready to jump



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 bright sphere



| back behind the unknown children. They then realized that these were not children but

small black beings whose height did not exceed 1.20 m. Two of them were standing next

to the sphere, another was kneeling before it, and the fourth, who was standing, held in its



| hand a sort of mirror that blinded the children. The boy tried to call out to them, but the

small beings then hurriedly returned to the sphere. The children saw them rise from the

ground and penetrate the ball from the top, diving in head first. The sphere took off with



j a hissing sound, then rose into the sky describing a continuous spiral movement at high

speed. The dog barked, the cows started to moo, and a very strong odor of sulfur filled

the air. The second inquiry began in 1978 with a team of investigators from GEPAN and



| qualified outside advisors, one of whom was a former examining magistrate. :



The highlights of this second inquiry did not have to do with the facts or the account, but



with new elements such as secondary witnesses found at the site who provided



{i supplemental information and strengthened the credibility of the case. In particular, a

gendarme who arrived on the scene immediately following the incident found tracks on the

ground at the place indicated by the children and noted the very strong odor of sulfur.



( Likewise, another witness also came forward who admitted being in a granary close to the

site and clearly remembered a hissing sound very different from that of a helicopter of the

time. t



a The reconstruction at the site in the presence of the two main witnesses confirmed both

the descriptive accounts and the circumstances that followed the sighting. At the time the

children gave off a strong odor of sulfur, but, above all, they suffered from physiological



| disorders, and their eyes ran for several days. These facts were certified by the family

doctor and confirmed by their father, who was mayor of the village at the time. In the

conclusion of this., second inquirythe judge gave his opinion on the witnesses and their



| testimony: “There is no flaw or inconsistency in these various elements that permit us to

doubt the sincerity of the witnesses or to reasonably suspect an invention, hoax, or

hallucination. Under these circumstances, despite the young age of the principal



| witnesses, and as extraordinary as the facts that they have related seem to be, I think

that they actually observed them.”



| 4.3 Trans-en-Provence, Var [Department] (January 8, 1981)



| GEPAN/SEPRA investigation



In Trans-en-Provence on January 8, 1981, at around 5:00 p.m., a man who was



building a small shed for a water pump in his garden reportedly was witness to what is



i perhaps one of the most unusual cases ever observed and studied in France. A reflection

of the sun on something moving in the sky supposedly attracted his attention, allowing him

to observe the descent, then the abrupt landing on a platform of earth located below his



i house, of a silent metal object. The object, which was ovoid in shape, did not exhibit any

apparent projections, wings, control surfaces, or engine that would permit one to liken it

to some type of aircraft. The object rested on the platform of earth for a few short



fl seconds, still without emitting any noise, then it took off and disappeared at high speed in

the azure blue sky. The account could stop at this simple visual sighting if there hadn’t



é been visible mechanical tracks and imprints in the shape of a crown, which pushed the case



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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 unequivocally

that it really was a case of an unidentified heavy metal object that had actually landed on |

the platform of earth. The analyses of plant samples taken at the site indicated that they

were not dealing with any type of [known] aircraft, or even a helicopter or military drone,

which were hypotheses that were considered and analyzed. |

The vegetation at the landing site - a sort of wild alfalfa - had been profoundly marked

and affected by an external agent that considerably altered the photosynthesis apparatus.

In fact, the chlorophyll, as well as certain amino acids of the plants, exhibited significant fj

variations in concentration, variations which decreased with the distance [of the plants]

from the center of the mechanical track. These effects disappeared completely two years

later, thus revealing a specific and particular type of trauma. According to Professor |

Michel Bounias of the ecology and plant toxicology laboratory of INRA [National

Institute for Agronomic Research] who performed the analyses, the cause of the profound

disturbances suffered by the vegetation present in that ecosystem could likely be a J

powerful pulsed electromagnetic field in the high frequency (microwave) range. Studies E

and research are still being conducted in regard to this case and numerous leads have been

explored. None of these leads has-been able to satisfy all of the conditions that would |

enable the object that landed in Trans-en-Provence on January 8, 1981, to be identified

with certainty, and this is all the more true with respect to the determination of its origin. |

4.4 Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle [Department], the so-called “Amaranth” Case

(October 21, 1982) fi

i GEPAN/SEPRA investigation

The “Amaranth" Case concerns the sighting during the day by a witness, a cellular {

biology researcher, of an object that hovered above his garden for 20 minutes. The :

testimony recorded by the gendarmerie less than 5 hours after the sighting is summarized

as follows: }

- The witness was in his garden in front of his house at around 12:35 a.m. after work

on October 21, 1982; he saw a flying craft, which he first took for an airplane, come from

the southeast. He saw a shiny craft. He indicated that there were no clouds, that the sun |

was not in his eyes, and that visibility was excellent. The craft’s speed of descent was not

very great, and he thought that it was going to pass over his house. Once he realized that

the trajectory of the craft was bringing it toward him, he backed up 3 to 4 meters. This |

craft, which was oval in shape, stopped approximately one meter from the ground and

remained hovering at this height for about 20 minutes.

- The witness stated that since he had looked at his watch, he was absolutely certain i

about the length of time the craft hovered. He described the craft as follows: ovoid in

shape, approximately 1 m in diameter, 80 cm thick, the bottom half metallic in appearance

like polished beryllium and the upper half the blue-green color of the inner depths of a |

lagoon. The craft did not emit any noise, nor did it seem to emit any heat, cold, radiation,

magnetism, or electromagnetism. After 20 minutes, the craft suddenly rose straight up, a

trajectory which it maintained until it was out of sight. The craft’s departure was very |

fast, as if it were under the effect of strong suction. The witness indicated, finally, that

there were no tracks or marks on the ground and the grass was not charred or flattened, }



but he did remark that when the craft departed, the grass stood straight up, then returned

f 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 leaves, which had

| completely dried up, led one to think that they had been subjected to intense electrical

fields. However, despite short time delays before intervention, the sampling conditions

and then the storage of the sample did not permit this hypothesis to be verified definitively.

fi Based on an earlier study on the behavior of plants subjected to electrical fields, it

emerged that:

- the electrical field, which was what probably caused the blades of grass to lift up, had

| to have exceeded 30 kV/m,

- the effects on the amaranth that were observed were probably due to an electrical

4 field that had to have far exceeded 200 kV/m at the level of the plant.

Chapter 5 - Counterexamples of Phenomena That Have Been Explained

4 The cases reported in the preceding chapters have remained unexplained, despite the

richness of their data. Such cases are in the minority. Many sightings of aerial phenomena

made in France that the witnesses could not understand and reported to the gendarmerie

Qj have been explained after a short investigation by the gendarmerie and/or

GEPAN/SEPRA: the causes of these have been the moon, planets, aircraft, weather a

balloons, reflections from automobile headlights on clouds, etc., and, very rarely, hoaxes.

| Sometimes the investigation yielded more unusual explanations. We will give two

examples.

ll 5.1 A Strange Object Crosses a Highway (September 29, 1988)

| GEPAN/SEPRA investigation

An auto mechanic driving on the Paris-Lille freeway saw an enormous red ball cross the

road a few dozen meters away from him and roll down below the road. Casting

A reflections of light and enveloped in dense smoke, it finally came to a halt in a field.

Troubled by this disturbing observation, the auto mechanic apparently reported it to the

highway gendarmes. On the chief’s orders, the gendarmerie then sealed off the freeway

fi and a zone several kilometers around the object. The principal witness and his family were

taken to the hospital, where they underwent a series of examinations. Civilian and military

security officers went to the site of the incident, equipped primarily with Geiger counters.

| At that time, in fact, they were waiting for the Soviet satellite Cosmos 1900, which was

equipped with a nuclear power generator, to fall, and precise instructions had been given.

When consulted, CNES very quickly informed them that Cosmos 1900 was overflying the

7 Indian Ocean at that very moment. Did the red ball come from space? Advancing with

caution, monitoring their nuclear radiation detectors, the security specialists drew near a

sphere approximately 1.50 m in diameter. Under the bright light from the searchlights,

bi they saw that it bore no sign of the considerable heat build-up or mechanical effects that

atmospheric reentry would have produced. It appeared to be intact, and small mirrors

covered its surface. No smoke or radioactivity were detected near it.

i It was later learned that this sphere, which was intended to serve as a decoration at a

Jean-Michel Jarre concert, had fallen from the truck that was carrying it to London. The



| small mirrors stuck to its polystyrene casing were for reflecting the show’s lighting

effects... f]

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

region was alerted by an inhabitant who said he had seen an unidentified flying object over |

the town during the night of March 10 to 11. In the course of its investigation, the

[gendarmerie] force recorded a total of four testimonies, three of which were totally

independent of one another. The first witness, a restaurateur in the village, described the A

phenomenon as a bluish and purplish luminous mass slightly oval in shape and around 15

meters in length. The light was so bright that the village square was lit up as if it were , |

broad daylight, to such a degree that the public lighting, which goes on automatically,

went out. Two other witnesses, who were in a car close to the village, reported that this

luminous mass preceded their vehicle on the road about 2 m ahead of them. They |

informed the gendarmes that this light went out suddenly after an orange-colored light

appeared on each side of the glow.

Finally, a fourth witness, a fish farmer, said he had been awakened that night by a dull |

noise and had seen a bright bluish glow. The next day, all the fish in one of his fish

(-------) tanks, catfishes, were found dead. The presence of a power line hanging over the

tank enabled the gendarmes to focus their investigation on phenomena of an electrical §

origin.

GEPAN/SEPRA did the same during the investigation that it conducted on the site a

few days later. It discovered very quickly that the 10-kV power line hanging over the tank i

had melted. The information provided by [the French electricity company] EDF enabled

them to demonstrate that since this line was some thirty years old, it was very likely that ;

corrosion and oxidation of the aluminum wires had caused a power arc effect in the line, fj

probably in conjunction with a corona effect. This would explain, on the one hand, the

bluish glow and the noise heard by the witness and, on the other hand, the public lighting

going out. The glow was, in fact, bright enough to trigger the photoelectric control cell, |

which was located close to the melted line.

Finally, the fish died as a result of being poisoned by drops of aluminum that fell in the

tank for several minutes. |

PART 2 |

The Extent of Our Knowledge a

Chapter 6 - Organization of the Research in France f

In 1977, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales was tasked with the mission of setting

up a permanent structure for the study of unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP): the

Groupe d’Etudes de Phénoménes Aérospatiaux Non Identifiés (GEPAN). This |



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 members who were representative of the social and exact sciences guaranteed

| that this complex and delicate subject would be handled with all the necessary precision.

This council had the job of guiding, organizing, and reviewing the work of GEPAN

annually.

| Three phases can be distinguished in the progression of the activity connected with the

study of UFOs in France, which culminated in 1988 in the creation of the Service

d’Expertise des Phénoménes de Rentree Atmosphérique (SEPRA), which succeeded

| GEPAN, still within CNES:

- a phase that consisted of setting up the organization and defining the procedures for

the collection and processing of data, which is described in this chapter,

| - a phase that consisted of defining the scientific method for studying cases,

- a phase that consisted of implementing the previously defined methods and

procedures, the last two of which are discussed in the next chapter.

| SEPRA plays a more limited role in the study of UFOs than does GEPAN, the scientific

council of which has ended its mission

| 6.1 The Setting Up the Organization Phase

| GEPAN’s first job was to form a partnership among the different public, civilian, and

military agencies with a view to organizing the collection and analysis of reliable data.

The Gendarmerie Nationale, the civil and military aviation authorities, the National

qj Weather Service, etc., were approached and brought together in this organization via

agreements and protocols established with GEPAN.

The first goal set was the rapid acquisition and provision of data collected at the sites

i) where a phenomenon was sighted. To do this, in accordance with the directives of the

scientific council, GEPAN was tasked with the mission of forming teams of specialized

investigators for the collection of psychological and physical data, such as, for example,

| taking samples of tracks in the ground. In parallel to this organization, various civilian and

military research laboratories were asked to participate in expert’s appraisals and analyses

of the data collected in investigations, such as, for example, the processing of

a photographic documents and radar recordings.

6.2 Participation of the Gendarmerie Nationale

| It was in February 1974 that the first instructions were given tasking the Gendarmerie

Nationale with the job of collecting and centralizing spontaneous testimonies on UFOs.

i Previously, these testimonies had been collected on an occasional basis in the regional

[gendarmerie] forces and rarely gave rise to the drafting of reports or to in-depth

investigations (the Valensole case in [1965]). The administrative or technical authorities

| did not process or use these documents.

Beginning in May 1977, one of the six copies of the report drafted by the regional

gendarmerie forces was forwarded to GEPAN, which from then on became the recipient

i of all information collected on UFOs.

6.2.1 Role and Action of the Gendarmerie Nationale

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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 intervention may range from the simple transcript of a testimony to |

an actual investigation, which may be conducted jointly with the GEPAN/SEPRA

departments at the locations of sightings and often results in an in-depth report.

6.2.2 Use of Data Collected by the Gendarmerie Nationale |

Once the information has been collected locally by the gendarmerie, it is forwarded in

the form of a report to the Gendarmerie Nationale headquarters in Paris, which issues a |

copy of it to GEPAN/SEPRA. The latter processes it at two different levels:

~ at the first level, the report is analyzed, then entered into a database, and perhaps is .

processed statistically for the purpose of establishing classifications and typologies of |

phenomena,

- at the second level, which relates to more complex “UAP D” (category D unidentified

aerospace phenomena) cases, the investigation in the field generates a set of research i

activities with respect to elements for further processing that results in the drafting of a

detailed, in-depth investigation report; the report may be used for track interpretation

studies. |

6.2.3.Assessment and Results of the Cooperation with the Gendarmerie Nationale fi

Since 1974, over 3,000 gendarmerie reports representing an average of three

spontaneous testimonies per document have been collected and forwarded to

GEPAN/SEPRA. Added to this are some one hundred investigations and interventions in fi

the field, conducted jointly with the local [gendarmerie] forces. Allofthese have.

permitted the characterization of a set of rare, natural and artificial phenomena that have

occurred with varying frequency which would not have been able to be identified without 8

this type of organization. Thanks to this collaboration, it has been possible to study UFO

cases like the Trans-en-Provence and “Amaranth” cases (see Chapter 4) under excellent

conditions, showing that there was a remnant of events the nature of which had yet to be |

identified. A volume of information describing the objectives sought by CNES in the

study of UFOs was widely disseminated to all of the regional [gendarmerie] forces.

Supplemental information and training, [end of line cut off] direction of officers and |

lower-level gendarmes, is regularly provided by the Gendarmerie Nationale schools to

sensitize the [gendarmerie] force commanders to this subject. fi

The results of this collaboration could be more effective. Regular updating of the data |

collection procedures would be desirable, as well as shorter time delays before

intervention for investigations between the time the local [gendarmerie] force learns of the |

case and the time when SEPRA intervenes. This reduction in the intervention time would

considerably diminish the loss of information, particularly with respect to effects on the

environment. It would also be important for the gendarmerie forces to be routinely |

informed of the results of work and investigations carried out by SEPRA. However, the



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 Force Chief of Staff's Office of Planning and Studies

| (EMAA/BPE).

When GEPAN was created, a memorandum of understanding defined the respective

roles of the two agencies for the processing of information relating to cases of military

| aeronautic sightings. In principle, all UFO sightings must be reported to the military air

[traffic] control center in question, which forwards the information to the Air Operations

| Center (CCOA) in Taverny. The latter is responsible, in collaboration with the Air Force

Chief of Staff's Space Office, for forwarding it to GEPAN/SEPRA. At the same time, all

radar information is recorded in the radar control centers and kept for a minimum of one

| month and longer on request. This information is made available to investigators if

needed.

A protocol established with the Army defines the conditions for the forwarding of

| information collected in flight by pilots of the Army Air Corps (ALAT).

| 6.4 Participation of the Civil Aviation Authority

The same type of organization and procedures is used by the civil aviation authority to

collect and process the information relating to UFO sightings made by civilian pilots. A

| protocol signed between the Civil Aviation Directorate (DGAC) and CNES permits

GEPAN/SEPRA to have access to UFO sighting reports drafted by national and foreign

airlines crews. To this end, a sighting report form prepared jointly by DGAC and

| GEPAN/SEPRA is made available to crews at the air [traffic] control centers of the civil

aviation authority and airlines. In addition, the radio conversations between the crew and

| the air [traffic] control [center] are routinely recorded and attached to the detailed sighting

report.

There is also a regulation concerning flight incidents that could involve safety. In this

case, the flight captain must follow the “Airmiss” procedure, which routinely triggers an

| investigation by the DGAC.

| 6.5 Additional Research Resources

Numerous civilian (public or private) and military bodies contribute to the expert

i appraisals performed in investigations and work by GEPAN/SEPRA. This involvement

takes place at two levels, either in the collection of data in the field and the utilization of

sighting reports or in the

| analysis of data after the expert’s appraisal and the theoretical and experimental research

that are deemed necessary.

ij Cooperation agreements have been established, particularly with various bodies that can

benefit in return from the results of investigations of interest to their own area of study,



for example:

- lightning (EDF, CEA [French Atomic Energy Commission], the National Weather il

Service, ONERA, CEAT [Toulouse Aeronautic Test Center]),

- meteors (CNRS [National Center for Scientific Research], DGA [French General

Delegation for Armaments]), (

- line disturbances (EDF, France Télécom [French telecommunications company]),

- group sociology and, in particular, sects (CNRS, universities),

- photography, the study of films, the processing of satellite imagery (Fleximage |

company).

The following three applications should be emphasized: |

: 6.5.1 Sample Analysis |

GEPAN/SEPRA is supported by various civilian and military laboratories, including ;

those of the Etablissement Technique Central de l’Armement (ETCA), [Central Technical

Armaments Institution] for analyzing soil and plant samples collected during the course of ii

investigations.

6.5.2 Use of Photographs fi

* Image processing work was performed at ETCA between 1981 and 1988. This work fj

enabled the techniques and procedures, listed in GEPAN technical memorandum no. 18,

for studying supposed UFO photographs to be defined. Diffraction filters were. issued to

each gendarmerie regional unit to permit on-site collection of information over the light Al

spectrum emitted.

6.5.3 Sky Surveillance System fi

A system called “ORION” was studied and partially deployed by [the Ministry of] |

Defense for the purpose of monitoring, identifying, and predicting the passage of satellites,

particularly over national territory. It should meet, at least partially, the need for the

surveillance of UFO-type light phenomena. The system consists of: Ri

- the current surveillance and tracking radar systems and listening antenna on the ship ;

Monge,

- two radar and optical surveillance systems and one optical imaging system: a

* the “GRAVES” surveillance radar system, which will be capable of detecting

objects from 1 mz [in size] at a distance of 1500 km,

* the “SPOC” [Sky Observation Probe System] optical surveillance system, which fl

uses CCD cameras to detect and determine the trajectory of orbiting satellites or

magnitude 7 to 8 space debris (the installation of equipment at two sites is currently under

way), ii

- finally, the development of the 4 m diameter “SOLSTICE” telescope, which may be

provided with adaptive optics, for the observation of objects in geostationary orbit

(36,000 km). |



| 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 from the sky, which are generally reported by

rural inhabitants. Fortunately, in 1803, the physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot conducted an in-

depth investigation in the village of Laigle in Orne [Department] about three weeks after_it

| was reported. that stones had fallen from the sky. Biot examined numerous stones and

certain evidence (broken branches, perforated roofs, fires) and questioned many

independent witnesses. He prepared a convincing report that gave scientific existence to

fl meteorites.

The method developed by GEPAN was approved by its scientific council. It basically

consists of identifying initially unknown phenomena and performing a joint analysis of four

a types of data concerning:

- witnesses: physiology, psychology, etc.,

- testimonies: accounts, reactions to questions, general behavior, etc.,

| - the physical environment: weather, air traffic, photographs, radar data, traces left on

the environment, etc., A

(i - the psychosocial environment: readings and beliefs of witnesses, possible influence of

the media and various groups on these witnesses, etc.

Gendarmerie reports often contain sufficient data in order to be able to identify the

| phenomenon sighted. In many cases, the phenomenon turns out to be an airplane, a

planet, a satellite, etc. In other cases, a fairly large supplemental investigation is

conducted by GEPAN/SEPRA. An in-depth study can take up to two years. The analysis

i of traces left on the environment may result in specialized laboratories being called on for

assistance (see the Trans-en-Provence and “Amaranth” cases in Chapter 4).

Finally research was conducted in collaboration with the universities in order to perfect

A the investigation method. CNES, out of a concern for scientific precision, adopted the

term “UAP” instead of the term UFO, which is more well known but more restrictive.

i GEPAN is the group that studies UAPs.

7.2 First Classification of UAPs (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena)

| After a study is conducted, each case is classified by GEPAN/SEPRA into one of the

following four categories, depending on the extent to which it has been identified:

- Category A: completely identified phenomenon,

Ei - Category B: phenomenon that can probably be identified but which cannot be

identified with certainty due to a lack of evidence,

- Category C: phenomenon that cannot be identified due to a lack of data,

| - Category D: phenomenon that cannot be identified despite the abundance and quality

of the data.

Category D UAPs represent 4 to 5% of the cases and are called UAP Ds. They include

| sightings of phenomena, some of which were close to the ground, within a few meters of

the witnesses. The strangest and most mysterious cases in this category are generally



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 fi

the Blue Book Project (cf. Chapter 9.1).

7.3 Typology of UAP Ds |

The detailed statistical analysis of UAP Ds enables a precise determination of the

distribution of their physical characteristics: speed, acceleration, silence, shape, effects on |

the environment. It is interesting to note that statistical studies in the USSR yielded

distributions comparable to those determined by Claude Poher, the first head of GEPAN,

from some 200 French cases, or 1,000 cases worldwide. It would be desirable to be able B

to develop UAP D statistical studies in France.

7.4 Investigations of Remarkable Cases |

Around one hundred investigations have been conducted by GEPAN/SEPRA. Some of

them have highlighted rare physical atmospheric phenomena associated, for example, with |

lightning; others have revealed unusual psychological behavior of witnesses caused, for *

example, by taking hallucinogenic drugs. Several very in-depth investigations based on

analyses of evidence have demonstrated, in the end, the physical presence of a |

phenomenon the nature and origin of which remain unknown. Two cases related in

Chapter 4 stand out in our minds, the Trans-en-Provence case of January 8, 1981, and the

“Amaranth” case of October 21, 1982. The investigations lead us to believe that double- R

saucer-shaped objects were close to the ground for some time, then departed toward the

sky leaving traces on the vegetation and, in the Trans-en-Provence case, on the ground

itself. They are detailed in GEPAN technical memoranda no. 16 and no. 17 (see the |

reference list in Chapter 6).

7.5 Aeronautical Cases f

7.5.1 Data on French Aeronautical Cases |

- Twelve French aeronautical cases have been brought to the attention of

GEPAN/SEPRA, only three or four of these can be considered to fall into category D. |

- The first UAP D case identified dates back to 1951. It involved Vampire military

aircraft in the Orange area. In two other very extraordinary sightings, which are presented

in Chapter 1, military pilots reported the presence of objects with aeronautical |

performances inconsistent with the maneuvers of classic aircraft over the region of Tours

in 1976 and of Luxeuil in 1977. However, not until January 28, 1994, was the crew of a

regularly scheduled Air France commercial airplane able to collect the first case of a visual fi

sighting correlated with a radar detection over 50 seconds long (see Chapter 1.3).

7.5.2 Aeronautical UAP D Cases Worldwide c

The aeronautical UAP D cases known since 1942 were initially enumerated in a

document entitled Rencontres dans le ciel [Encounters in the Sky], by Dominique h

Weinstein, the French portion of which SEPRA contributed to. The list of sightings



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, or agencies like SEPRA.



| This list offers a classification according to criteria with respect to the quality of the

sighting. It ranges from simple visual sightings, describing the specific performances or

maneuvers of the phenomenon observed (speed, acceleration, maneuverability, silence,



| etc.), to more elaborate sightings, mentioning environmental disturbances caused by the

aeronautical UAP Ds, such as radio interference or radar jamming, navigation instrument

malfunctions, or even physical effects on the crew (heat, blinding, etc.).



@ Between 1947 and 1969, that is(-) during the time of the U.S. Air Force Blue Book

Project on UFOs, 363 sightings were identified. 1952 is the year in which the greatest

number of sightings were recorded: 68. A total of 63 countries are cited as having been



| the scene of at least one aeronautical sighting.



A 7.5.3 “Radar/Visual” Cases Worldwide



“Radar/visual” cases are those in which a visual sighting is associated with an onboard

| radar and/or ground radar detection. It is noted that:



- the first sightings in Japan and the USSR date back to 1948,



- 30 of the 68 countries cited in the list reported “radar/visual” cases,

a - - of the 489 cases in the report, 101 were “radar/visual” cases (21%),



- of the 363 cases in the Blue Book report, 76 were “tadar/visual” cases (21%),



- in 1952, 16 out of 68 cases were “radar/visual” cases (23.52%).



il In conclusion, we can clearly establish that from 1942 to 1995, at least 500 well-

documented and recognized aeronautical UAP D sightings were identified throughout the

world, nearly 20% of which were “radar/visual” cases. They furnish proof of a physical



i reality of phenomena that exhibited paradoxical maneuvers. (



| 7.6 The Physical Reality of UAP Ds



7.6.1 An Initial Report as Early as September 1947 in the United States



fj We have seen that the work of GEPAN/SEPRA showed that there was an entire

category of rare physical phenomena occurring at varying frequency that could not be

classified as known natural or artificial phenomena. These phenomena, UAP Ds, which



| we have highlighted, both in the aeronautical sphere (military and civilian aeronautical

cases) and close to the ground (cases of close encounters), support other cases of well-

documented sightings that have been verified by official authorities throughout the world.



cB It is interesting to note that as early as November [sic] 1947, right at the start of the very

first wave of modern UFO sightings, in the United States, General Twining, head of the

Air Material Command, drafted a report on “flying disks,” the conclusions of which are

i very explicit:

1. The phenomenon reported is something real, .and not visionary or fictitious

2. Disk-shaped objects the size of which is comparable to that of our aircraft do exist.

| 3. It is possible that some sightings correspond to natural phenomena.

4. The very high rate-of-climb observed, the maneuverability, and the escape



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

noise in a formation of three to nine objects... |

7.6.2 GEPAN/SEPRA’s Work ei

We do not have irrefutable tangible proof in the form of material, either whole or in

fragments, that confirm the physical nature of UAP Ds and their artifact character. fa

Nevertheless, the collection and expert appraisal work carried out at GEPAN/SEPRA for :

over 20 years confirms the statements General Twining made in 1947. . &

7.6.3 French Aeronautical Cases |

The study of French military aeronautical UAP D [sightings] (Orange in 1951, Tours in :

1976, Luxeuil in 1977) supports General Twining’s conclusions, namely the fourth one.

The testimonies of the pilots do in fact lead one to assume that the objects were “either et

piloted or operated by remote control”: all of the pilots reported that it was “the object”

that appeared to be moving toward them and not the other way around. Moreover, all of

them considered the maneuvering abilities of the object to be far superior to those that |

they were familiar with.

7.6.4 Cases of Close-Up UAP D Sightings in France :

For their part, the cases of close-up UAP D sightings in France are very much in |

keeping with Twining’s conclusions 4 and 5. In Trans-en-Provence (Chapter 4), the

expert appraisals made at the site support the local testimony and show that the object

with a metallic appearance and circular shape landed, then took off silently within a very |

short space of time not very far from a wall 2.5 m in height. No modern aircraft is capable

of these silent maneuvers, nor of this degree of precision when landing. It is hard not to

imagine a piloted or remote-controlled flying machine, or else one having highly advanced |

cybernetics. ;

The other French cases of close encounters described in Chapter 4 also strongly

suggest the existence of an intelligent [civilization] behind the UAP Ds. In the Valensole, |

“Amaranth” and Cussac cases, once the witness or witnesses are brought face to face with

the UAP D, everything generally happens very quickly, and the object escapes without

having shown the slightest aggressiveness toward the witnesses. &

7.6.5 Foreign Cases - Conclusion |

The study of certain foreign cases leads to conclusions similar to those drawn from the

French cases. One may reread in this spirit the description of the aeronautical cases i

presented in Chapter 2. We could also relate foreign cases of close encounters, such as



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 exceptional performances that are guided by a

{ natural or artificial intelligence.

al Chapter 8 - UFOs: Hypotheses, Modeling Attempts

8.1 Partial Models

él Credible sightings of aerial objects can be reinforced by plausible technical explanations

of the phenomena reported. Among the most striking observations in relation to the

current state of our knowledge, we cite:

fi - aerial movements carried out silently with very rapid accelerations and/or very high

speeds,

| - the shutting off of the engines of nearby land vehicles,

- the locomotive paralysis of witnesses.

Insofar as the sightings that are the most well documented, and the most credible owing

| to the obvious competence of the witnesses, come from aircraft pilots, it is their sightings

of aerial movements, sightings which are, moreover, supported by radar plots, that should

be explained first.

fi 8.1.1 Travel

There are, from the standpoint of the concept, various principles of propulsion that do

| not require propellers or jet engines that could thus be silent. The most advanced uses

magnetohydrodynamics, abbreviated MHD, but many others can also be considered. We

| will review these.

8.1.1.1 MHD Propulsion

| The principle of MHD propulsion, which cannot be envisioned in a vacuum, consists of

causing an electrical current to flow in the medium surrounding the .ship At the same

time, the ship emits a magnetic field. According to Laplace’s law, this field exerts a force

A on the current and thus on the medium in which it is flowing; this is the principle of most

electric motors. The medium being thus displaced in relation to the ship, it is in fact the

latter that undergoes, by reaction, a force that enables it to be propelled. It remains to

| create the necessary field and current:

- for the magnetic field, this is easily accomplished by installing windings (like those in

q electric motors), in which a suitable electrical current travels, in or under the walls of the

ship,

- for the electrical current, all depends on the medium.

In sea water it is easy to cause a current to flow using electrodes positioned on the hull.

if This is why MHD propulsion has been experimented with, so far successfully, in the

United States and Japan on both surface and submarine ship models.

In air, which is naturally insulating, it is more difficult to cause an electrical current to

| flow, but air can be made conducting by using, for example, strong electric fields generated

here again by suitable electrodes (air, when rendered conducting, can become more or less



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 compensate for its weight. The electrical and magnetic fields required are therefore

much stronger than for a naval ship and, in practice, obtaining the very strong fields that |

are essential is scarcely conceivable without having recourse to superconductive wirings.

Still theoretical until a only few years ago, their use in an aerial vehicle has been a credible

prospect since 1991, with the discovery of superconductors capable of operating at near- |

ambient temperatures.

Propulsion in the atmosphere without propellers or jet engines is, therefore, completely

possible in principle with MHD, and the calculations show that the power necessary is not, §

in certain cases, incompatible with our current aeronautical engines. The fact that no

cooling system has been seen (or heard) on the objects that have been observed close up

can be explained as long as the length of the craft’s flights does not exceed a few dozen |

minutes. Furthermore, other motors that we already use - electric motors, from energy

stored onboard or flywheels if they are not yet powerful enough - would not need immediate

cooling, which duly proves that this problem is not insurmountable. |

Numerous witnesses have been struck by the silence accompanying the maneuvers of E

the objects, which do not create a “bang” even at supersonic speeds (cf. Part 1, Chapters

1, 2, and 3). MHD propulsion could account for this silence: preliminary experiments in B

noise reduction by eliminating the wake and shock wave, albeit under very special

conditions, are encouraging.

. There has been extensive work on the different aspects of MHD propulsion of aircraft |

abroad: in the United States at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (NY), and

according to the journal New Scientist (February 1996), in Great Britain and in Russia.

To sum up, based on the current state of our knowledge, an MHD aircraft model is |

conceivable in the short term, while the creation of a craft having the same movement

capabilities as the aerial vehicles described by the witnesses seems quite likely to us within

a few dozen years. For the time being, only the quasi absence of perceptible air flow and a

noise while hovering close to the ground pose problems.

8.1.1.2 Other Propulsion Methods i

In a vacuum, the absence or scarcity of molecules or atoms prevents current flow in the [|

medium as well as the projection of a mass of sufficient substance pulled from this

medium. MHD propulsion is therefore not possible, and it is necessary to formulate other ;

hypotheses. Jet propulsion by means of chemical reactions, comparable to our rocket |

engines - even though its performance is more advanced - should not be tuled out a

priori. In fact, the space phase of the travel of unknown objects takes place very far from

sight. Gi

In addition, skins for stealth purposes render them invisible to telescopes and radars

beyond a few kilometers or a few dozen kilometers. Consequently, at these distances,

these objects could very well use classic propulsion systems without being detected. fi

Mainly, then, problems with respect to power consumption and mass to be expelled are

raised, but the method reviewed below in 8.1.1.3 would enable these problems to be

partially solved. 4

More advanced technologically are propulsion systems that call for very high velocity

exhaust - a considerable fraction of the speed of light - of particle beams. Due to the |



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, Georgia) and the United States, especially at the Argonne



A National Laboratory. At present, of course, these beams are much less powerful than

what would be necessary here, but they are already of interest as low-power engines once

out of the proximity of planets. The U.S. probe “Deep Space 1”, which should narrowly



fi miss asteroid 1992 KD on July 29, 1999, was equipped with an engine of this type.



Other methods of space propulsion are being studied very actively: nuclear propulsion

using fission (“NERVA,” “ORION,” and “DAEDALUS” projects) and, more recently,



| fusion, which would offer respective gains of one and over two orders of magnitude in

comparison with the best engines at present. Beyond this, the use of power stored in the

form of antimatter - which has become credible since CERN [European Council for



fl Nuclear Research] created an antihydrogen atom and demonstrated the means for storing

it - will offer gains even one hundred times greater.



This is why a growing number of research centers are doing work on this subject: the

| Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the Air Force Astronautical

Laboratory (Edwards Air Force Base), where antigravitation is also being studied,

according to the June 10, 1996 issue of Jane 's Defence Weekly. The latter topic is



{ reportedly also being pursued in Great Britain and in the CIS [Commonwealth of

Independent States].



a 8.1.1.3 Use of Planetary or Stellar Impulse



| Closer to our current technologies, even though, strictly speaking, it does not have to

do with propulsion, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory imagined, in 1961, that a spacecraft

_slingshotting off the potential [gravity] wells of suitably selected planets could attain higher



iH and higher speeds without expending any energy. This method is now routinely used for

missions to the remote planets in our [solar] system. One can then envision that by using

“reflections,” not only by planets but also by stars, as Dyson proposed in 1963,



Gf considerable speeds could be attained (limited only by escape velocities) and interstellar

distances could be crossed using relatively little energy at the price, of course, of the time

necessary for the departure and arrival slingshots



fl This method would lead to interstellar voyage lengths probably figuring in thousands of

years, thus with an order of magnitude greater than lengths anticipated for the envisioned

antimatter propulsion.



| 8.1.1.4 Conclusion Regarding Travel



| To sum up, for travel both in the atmosphere and in space, we can formulate reasonable

hypotheses on flight without any apparent means of lift in the first case and on the crossing

of great distances, up to an interstellar scale, in the second.



ly 8.1.2 The Shutting Off of Land Vehicle Engines



| To explain this phenomenon, which has been reported frequently abroad, it is necessary

to consider a remote action. [Since] no beams of light appear to be associated with these

engine , immobilizations we can imagine radio-frequency radiation, such as microwaves,



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 the ignition voltz °2s, ionization and electrical breakdown of the air around

the high voltage circuit of the engi: ([ignition] coil, distributor, spark plug wire), thus |

short-circuiting the firing pulses to the engine mass and shutting it off.

Since electronic ignition came into widespread use in the 70s, the action of microwaves,

apart from the mechanism previously described, may be exerted directly, paralyzing the [

electronic circuit generating the high voltage. We can therefore envision the action of ;

unknown objects on land vehicles, including nowadays those with diesel engines, which

are made vulnerable due to their more and more common electronic regulation circuit. Let |

us recall that the ability to generate high power microwave beams is within the capabilities 4

of our own technologies, as demonstrated by the intensive work being carried out in the

United States and the former USSR to develop microwave weapons intended precisely to |

destroy or immobilize enemy electronic systems from a distance, and even to act on

personnel. In France, high power microwave generators that can be used for this purpose

are being studied. A

This does not rule out the possibility of other types of radiation being used. Charged 3

particle beams would be capable of analogous effects, passing through, if necessary, living

matter, such as the bodies of some witnesses, without being felt by the latter or leaving 5

any notable or lasting sequels..

This can be illustrated by the beams of accelerators used in proton therapy, which begin by

passing through tissue without causing too much damage and becoming destructive only |

when their energy falls below a certain threshold as a result of their penetration.

This mode of action corresponds, moreover, to certain testimonies that report the

observation of beams of light passing through physical obstacles; in fact, by ionizing the |

air, proton beams generally do become visible in the form of truncated beams of light the

length of which is a function of their initial energy. A

8.1.3 Locomotive Paralysis of Some Witnesses

This phenomenon is less common. It is remarkable in that the paralysis reported only a

affect certain voluntary movements, but not respiration or posture (balance, in particular, ‘

is not compromised; the witnesses do not fall down) or eye movements. From the

standpoint of concepts, it can be remarked that in human beings posture and respiration |

are controlled by the cerebellum, an organ that is independent of the cerebrum, which :

governs voluntary movements. The paralysis effects observed can reasonably be

attributed to microwaves acting from a distance on certain parts of the human body (this is fj

also one of the objectives of the work mentioned above on microwave weapons). We

should note that these effects, among others, are being studied at the Air Force Weapons

Laboratory at Kirtland AFB. |

8.2 Modeling and Credibility |

The fact that we can formulate a credible hypothesis on the propulsion of the objects

sighted is obviously only a positive indication, but not proof of their existence, no more hi

than that of their conformity to the model that we imagine.

In this regard, the history of the technique teaches humility, but it can also yield quasi i



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. It

| would therefore be presumptuous to claim to foresee, based on _ our current knowledge and

accomplishments what might be technologies (-----) only slightly more advanced than our

own - or our own technologies in one or two centuries. Let us consider that only 150

| years ago, engines, electricity, the existence of the atom, and Hertzian waves were

unknown! We can also reread Jules Verne: Paris au XXe siécle [Paris in the 20th

Century] or Hier et demain [Yesterday and Tomorrow]...

| - certainties, since scientific and technical progress can only continue, supported by

more scientists and engineers than there have ever been, spurred by competition among

nations. This competition, in our now "closed" world will focus on all of the resources that

j once were free: potable water, the deep sea, the polar regions, ‘air, space, radio

frequencies, etc.

Although it is risky to predict the results of an increasingly accelerated scientific and

fi technical development, it is, at least, almost certain that our own knowledge will have

advanced greatly even within a few decades. There’s no telling what progress will be

made beyond that time! Under these circumstances, we can conclude with a high degree

fi of certainty that movements of objects that at present are just beyond our capabilities will

be technically possible within a few decades, or even a few centuries, even if the

_ knowledge put into play is not what we are predicting.

| To the extent that the preceding conclusion is acceptable, let us go further and

comment that only a few million years will have elapsed (barring a catastrophe) between

the appearance of man and the future stellar expeditions of our descendants (cf. Chapter

| 8.3.6 and Appendix 4).

This interval between the appearance on earth of a conscious intelligence and the time

when we will be able to perform the same feats as those performed by the objects we are

( dealing with here is infinitesimal (one to two thousand years) compared with the age of the

earth or even with the 600 million years that separate us from the appearance of the first

living organisms at the beginning of the Cambrian period.

| But the development of other intelligent [beings] on other worlds cannot have taken

place at exactly the same rate as on earth. If the age of these other worlds, like that of the

earth, is on the order of 4 billion years, and if a conscious life [form] appeared, neither the

| rate of its development nor the epoch in which that world was created cannot have been

exactly the same as ours.

Under these conditions, even a minuscule deviation of 0.1%, for example, in regard to

| these initial data would make it possible to place such a civilization between several

million years ahead of ours and several million years behind ours.

Thus the probability of the extent of development of two civilizations in the universe,

i and in the same solar system, being equal appears to be very low, and in all likelihood we

have only two possibilities:

fl - our “neighbors” are several thousand or several million years behind us (or do not yet

exist as a conscious species), and it will be we who discover them,

- our neighbors are ahead of us, but then the probability is that this advance figures in

| the thousands of years or more, rather than in years or even hundreds of years, and if we

can judge from the rate of our own development, their level of development would

certainly exceed our forecasting capabilities in every domain.



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 a

analysis, a good proportion of the sightings have proven completely explicable: satellite ,

re-entries sounding balloons, etc. This has furthermore enabled the precision of the

observers, as well as the veracity and consistency of the testimonies, to be tested. Cases a

of hoaxes are, on the whole, very rare and quite easy to detect. The majority of the

observers provide reliable reports, although it is necessary to take into account the

problems of diverse assessments. |

Most of the sightings of all types have also enabled the credible and well-documented

sightings called UAP Ds (category D unidentified aerospace phenomena), for which no ;

explanation has been found , to be classified separately. However, these phenomena are |

often attested by means of consistent testimonies all the way up to visual sightings coupled :

with radar sightings. Of course, if there had only been ten or so UAP D [sightings], this

ambiguous file could just have been classified as “no action,” but we are no longer at that fi

point and are far beyond that. Thus we are forced to seek plausible explanations. All ,

sorts of hypotheses have been constructed, and they may be classified as follows: i

8.3.1 Non Scientific Hypotheses

' “We are being manipulated without realizing it” (by a very secret, very powerful, and (

very knowledgeable group of people; by strange, unknown, or even extraterrestrial beings;

by spirits; by the devil; by our psychological fantasies; etc.). Obviously, we cannot say a

priori whether these hypotheses are true or false [since] they cannot be proven; their main |

drawback is that they aren’t much good to us.

Parapsychological phenomena and collective hallucinations should be classified in this

category. []

The same is true of the idea that is sometimes expressed that the futuristic craft sighted

are actually products of the future activity of humanity. Our descendants of the distant

[future], who have found the way to go back in time, come to observe us... A

It is obviously classic to try to reconstruct and observe the past via any of the traces

that it leaves, and one could theoretically observe it directly (for example, by discovering a i

well-oriented mirror on a planet located a few light years away). It is, however, out of the

question for such an observation to be able to influence a bygone time in any way, even by :

being detectable. |

8.3.2 Secret Weapons of a Superpower f

UAP Ds would then be piloted or remote-controlled craft of terrestrial origin. There is

no lack of observers to believe that the object with fantastic performances that they saw

maneuvering in the sky is the state of the art of military progress, which would explain the hi

secrecy in which they are cloaked. Certainly studies such as those regarding the stealth

aircraft or magnetohydrodynamics actually lead to impressive progress. But besides the

fact that it would be extremely unwise to expose to the eyes of laymen and foreign experts |

in this way what there has been so much interest in concealing, it can be added today that



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 are generally accompanied by

a lot of media publicity. Some researchers believe that without necessarily lending

A themselves to the manufacture of ultramodern weapons, the performances of high-tech

craft might serve to brainwash public opinion in the same way as other propaganda

a techniques. Of course, this point of view is a direct result of the cold war period. Any

means were good at that time for destabilizing the other camp, including fear of an

invasion by extraterrestrials or the instilling of doubt about leaders “who hide something

{ manifestly very serious from us.” :

This type of hypothesis is even less satisfying than the preceding ones because it runs

g up against the objections to each of those.

8.3.4 Holographic Images

fl At the junction between disinformation attempts and extraterrestrial hypotheses lies the

technique of holographic images, whether they be the work of a superpower or

extraterrestrial crews. In actual fact, this technique is difficult to employ. It requires

fi considerable preparation because air is very transparent and diffuses light only very poorly.

Therefore it is necessary to have large equipment covering the optical field used or at least

to project an appropriate screen on it, for example, a film of water.

(i The first method corresponds to theoretical holographic images, while the second is

simpler and is frequently used for spectacular effects, but it obviously leaves traces

behind... We can also envision using clouds or a curtain of rain, but this, of course, poses *

(a multiple hazards. Without necessarily being able to judge them at present, the method of

holographic images and associated methods have only very limited use.

| 8.3.5 Unknown Natural Phenomena

This hypothesis cannot be ruled out completely and must therefore be cited. However,

| it is difficult to support in cases where the UFO sighted behaves in an apparently

intelligent manner (approach, pursuit, evasion, and escape maneuvers, etc. ).

| 8.3.6 Extraterrestrial Hypotheses

A large number of people today are convinced that UFOs are piloted by intelligent

| beings who have come from a very remote part of the universe and are tasked with

watching us and even initiating contact with us. As appealing as they may be, these

hypotheses run up against all sorts of huge difficulties. The hypothetical Martians only

if recently disappeared from the realm of possibility, and apart from earth, the solar system

appears to be totally unable to have produced organized life and even more unable to have

produced an advanced civilization. It is therefore necessary to look farther, to the stars,

| but the closest star is already one hundred million times further away than the moon.

The only contacts that we may try to establish from such distances at present are radio



contacts. Astronomers have attempted contacts via message transmission and radio

listening in the “SETI” and “MEGASETI” programs. Although some enthusiasts have al

suggested futuristic ideas to “bypass” the vast expanse, such as, for example, the use of

“black holes,” the crossing of interstellar distances by possible extraterrestrials has elicited

much skepticism and the majority of astronomers reiterate that “fo date there has been no (

UFO case that is sufficiently well established to imply that it came from an

extraterrestrial civilization.”

Two professional astronomers, Jean-Claude Ribes and Guy Monnet, have, however, (

Proposed a scenario in our future in space that includes plausible interstellar voyages. In

this scenario, which is summarized in Appendix 4, they envision the establishment of large

communities in verdant “islands in space,” enormous artificial structures orbiting the |

earth, as described by the physicist O’Neill, and even inside large asteroids, where an

abundance of different materials, including water and oxygen, as well as ready protection

against meteorites and cosmic radiation, are found. Later on, when our descendants have |

mastered the production, storage and use of antimatter as energy, they will utilize it to

propel some of their habitats to another solar system. They will settle in an asteroid belt,

Start families there, and then visit the planets of the receiving system aboard craft that are fj

perceived by any possible natives the same way we perceive UFOs today.

This scenario, which in essence relies only on laws of physics that are currently well

accepted, gives the extraterrestrial hypothesis a certain degree of plausibility; it is possible |

to imagine that a civilization that came from somewhere else colonized the region of our

asteroid belt and used it as a staging base to our planet. Current progress in the conquest

of space and physics reinforces this idea. |

We should point out that some people envisage another hypothesis, which is very

controversial: the UFOs do belong to a civilization located in the asteroid belt, but this

civilization itself comes from our planet. Older than any known terrestrial civilizations and [

highly advanced, it supposedly disappeared from earth (nuclear war, radioactivity,

pollution, etc.) but resettled in the solar system.

Both hypotheses have to their credit the fact that they place the UFO problem outside (

the realm of the paranormal and promote thought about the future of our planet.

Chapter 9 - Organization of the Research Abroad fi

9.1 Organization of the Research in the United States

The subject of UFOs is presently very popular in the United States. This is evidenced i

by the number and success of fiction films such as Independence Day, Men in Black, and

Contact, which deal with this topic. A survey conducted in June 1997 for Time magazine fi

showed that nearly one American in four believes that an extraterrestrial craft crashed at

Roswell (New Mexico) at the beginning of July 1947. A professor of psychiatry at

Harvard, Dr. Mack, treats the problem of the temporary abduction, whether real or Fi

imagined, of his fellow countrymen by UFOs very seriously. In view of the public’s

expectations, what are the authorities doing?

They deny that the UFO phenomenon poses a threat to national Security, or that it is |

evidence of an extraterrestrial origin. This position has been taken almost continuously by

the Air Force, which was tasked with the study of UFOs from 1948 to 1969 within the i



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 had little chance of advancing science. All official studies thus

| came to a halt in the United States as of December 1969, and the Air Force referred those

who were curious to private ufological associations.

Although it was endorsed by the Academy of Sciences, the Condon report was harshly

| criticized by numerous scientists, particularly at the powerful AIAA (American Institute of

Aeronautics and Astronautics). The latter justly pointed out that the summary and

conclusions of the report, which were drafted by Professor Condon himself, conflicted

| with a number of analyses within its body. The AIAA recommended moderate, but

continuous scientific work on UFOs.

An amendment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) passed in 1974 permitted

{] declassified official documents on UFOs to be obtained as of 1976. One of these, in

particular, attracted attention. It was a letter from Air Force Brigadier General Bolender

from October 1969 stating that the imminent conclusion of the Blue Book Project would

| not put an end to military reports concerning UFOs that constituted a threat to national

security. These were not part of the Blue Book system and would continue, as in the past,

i to be handled in accordance with the directive JANAP 146 and Air Force Manual 55-11.

| . “As regards authenticity, only negative conclusions are definitive”

By Francois Louange,

fi Chief Executive Officer of Fleximage Company

Among the investigations conducted on the subject of UFOs, photograph analysis

i] represents one of the more delicate areas. In fact, in the public’s eyes, photographs

constitute indisputable proof par excellence of the existence of the phenomenon, which

gives them a very special emotional factor. But photography is in reality a field where one

i still finds many errors and hoaxes, because many natural or technical effects can give rise

to surprising documents: it is becoming easier and easier for a specialist who has computer

equipment to produce a doctored negative that stands up well to investigations. This

| can sometimes even prove lucrative.

Moreover, experience shows that most of the negatives that stand up to analysis contain

only extremely poor and unusable information, often limited to a saturated bright spot on a

| black background or vice versa, which makes this area of investigation relatively

disappointing.

For about forty years, alleged photographs of UFOs, which are sometimes renowned in

| ufological circles, have occasionally been the subject of expert appraisals on the part of

specialists interested in this topic. The physical and technical fields that come into play are

quite varied, ranging from atmospheric propagation to photography or video and including

| digital image processing.

The analysis of a photographic document or video is broken down into two steps:

1 - Establishing or disproving authenticity, uncovering hoaxes, fake maneuvers or

i parasitic phenomena that could have affected the photographing equipment or the original

data storage medium (film, video cassette). This concept of authenticity is furthermore

Fl completely relative, because only negative conclusions are definitive and in the best of



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 (size, position, speed, albedo, energy

emitted, etc.). This phenomenon will then be compared with other unexplained |

phenomena in order to draw possible parallels.

It is important to emphasize that the photographic as well as the video documents

available come only from fortuitous witnesses; there are very few opportunities for a

significant data to be exploited by reason of simple statistical considerations: the chances

of being witness to a rare phenomenon, the likelihood of having [camera] equipment in

hand ready to use, the probability of being able to make the proper adjustments and calmly |

take professional quality photographs, etc.

In any case, it seems reasonable to limit in-depth investigations to, cases in which the

following two conditions are met: (]

1 - The original document (negative, slide, video cassette, etc.) is available.

2. - There is at least one other independent source of information (visual testimony or

another sensing device). |

Trick of the eye: lens-shaped clouds |

[Photo] f

Central bulge, broad and narrow disk, this is the definition of lenticular galaxies. It is also

the definition of a type of cloud, cirrocumulus lenticularis, which forms above 7000 m |

altitude and up to the limits of the troposphere. Their very specific shape is due to factors

such as pressure, temperature, turbulence, and very strong winds. But this shape is

definitely open to every interpretation for those who wish to see it as a flying saucer... if

When military craft play UFOs R

[Photo] it

Left:

Photographed in 1989 offshore from Los Angeles, this unpiloted surveillance unit is a il



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 commercial aircraft, merchant marine captains) in

fj the United States and Canada. It stipulates that an urgent report should be filed with

certain authorities, which must in turn file a report, namely with the Air Operations

Command (now NORAD [North American Air Defense]) in Colorado Springs, when

(j objects requiring very urgent defensive action and/or an investigation by the armed forces

of the United States or Canada are sighted.

-Among these objects, UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are listed along with missiles

(] and hostile or unidentified submarines, etc. Disclosure of the contents of these reports is

subject to the penalties of the laws cracking down on espionage. JANAP 146 was in effect

fl in recent years and perhaps is still in force. This regulation may explain the frequent

reticence of American military personnel, aviators in particular, to bring up the subject of

UFOs.

| The members of American ufological associations number several thousand. These

associations attempt to fill the gap left by the public authorities in the field of “UFO”

studies. The FOIA brought them a resurgence of activity, showing them that contrary to .

| their statements, the Air Force and various special departments, namely the CIA, are very

much interested in the subject of UFOs and have been for some time. It permitted them to

learn of certain spectacular cases, such as the overflight of missile bases in 1975, or the

ii 1976 Tehran incident related in Chapter 2. DIA deemed this a “radar/visual” case: “A

classic case that meets all the conditions required for a legitimate study of the UFO

: phenomenon.”

f In recent years, the three main ufological associations have been brought together by a

leading U.S. personality, Marie Galbraith, to conduct a joint study. She is the wife of

Evan Griffith Galbraith, who was U.S. ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985. Thus

( she is well-acquainted with our country and our language, since she lived on Avenue

Gabriel. Supported both morally and financially by Laurance Rockefeller, brother of the

famous David Rockefeller, she traveled the world to meet the principal scientists

| interested in UFOs and to collect the best cases.

She then oversaw the drafting of a clear and documented book entitled Unidentified

Flying Objects, Briefing Document, the best available evidence, which was endorsed in

| 1995 by the chairmen of the three associations CUFOS [Center for UFO Research],

FUFOR [Fund for UFO Research], and MUFON [Mutual UFO Network]. She had this

work sent to more than a thousand prominent figures throughout the world and, namely,

(4 to a large number of U.S. congressmen. Her goal is to get the U.S. government and

possibly other governments to end the secrecy surrounding UFOs. For the editors of the

book, this secrecy is essentially military in origin: the nation that is first to reproduce the

id exceptional characteristics of UFOs will dominate the world. The secrecy was justified

during the cold war, but it is no longer justified now given the scientific and technical

breakthroughs useful to humanity that one can expect [to obtain] from the study of UFOs.

| On the whole, Marie Galbraith’s book is descriptive. It does not interpret the

phenomena sighted (physical modeling or hypotheses regarding the origin of the objects).

P| Such was also the spirit of the international scientific colloquium organized in September



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, photography, etc., who often

were not very familiar with the UFO problem, formed a scientific council there that judged []

the papers presented by the UFO researchers. French participation was quite noteworthy;

it consisted of the head of SEPRA and two members of the scientific council. A summary

document expressed the desire that many countries have a UFO research organization |

comparable to that of France

Colonel Corso’s theory |

In July 1997, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Roswell incident, an astonishing book {]

entitled The Day After Roswell was published. It was written by Colonel Corso, who

from 1953 to 1957 was the military member of the National Security Council Staff and j

thus was in constant contact with President Eisenhower. The foreward of this book was |

written by Strom Thurmond, the current chairman of the Senate Armed Services =

Committee, who, already a member of this committee, appointed Corso as congressional

attaché when he left the Army in 1963. The author states that the object found at Roswell . |

was indeed an extraterrestrial vessel. He reportedly saw for himself, in July 1947, the

cadaver of one of the occupants Preserved in a glass coffin. From 1961-1962, as chief of

foreign technology in the Army R & D Department, he apparently was tasked with (i

discretely allowing U.S. industry to benefit from the extremely high-tech objects found in

the wreckage (according to him: printed circuits, a laser, light intensifier, etc.).

Colonel Corso affirms that high-ranking military officers and some U.S. congressmen |

know about the existence of extraterrestrial craft in our skies. They have concealed it

from the public to avoid panics, but full disclosures are going to be able to be made, ;

because the United States, which has been striving to do this for 50 years, reportedly now il

has the means to counter a possible UFO attack. Some of these claims are surprising at

the very least, but the entire contents of the book cannot be easily dismissed when one

considers the remarkable career of its author and Senator Thurmond’s tribute to him. It is |

true that the latter requested that his fforeward not appear in reprints of the book, a request

that was granted. The author allegedly had not told him that the book was about UFOs...

But it is difficult to believe that the foreward writer, the third in line in the U.S. fi

Government to succeed the President, and the publisher, Simon & Schuster, were not

acting with full knowledge of the facts at the time of the first printing. As soon as the

book came out, the U.S. Air Force published a second report on Roswell again denying |

the plausibility of the hypothesis of the crash of an extraterrestrial craft. The first report,

which was published in 1994, was presented as the first official study on UFOs since the

end of the Blue Book [Project] in 1969 (see “Roswell and Disinformation” in Appendix rl

[5]). This reaction is not incompatible with Colonel Corso’s theories; it may be intended

to reassure those whom Corso’s revelations might worry.

9.2 Organization of the Research in the United Kingdom A

Great Britain has been the scene of several remarkable cases. We presented the bs

Lakenheath “radar/visual” case (1956) in Chapter 2. The RAF and the Ministry in charge

of it therefore became interested in UFOs very early on, but we do not possess much i



information on their work. Since its creation in 1964, the British Ministry of Defence



fj (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 was its head from 1991 to 1994, in a book written in a very lively style ,



| Open Skies, Closed Minds.



This department receives telephone calls or letters from witnesses, but more generally

reports prepared from the depositions of these witnesses taken at police stations, airports

| or RAF bases. It conducts classic investigations if it deems them useful. They then

question radar stations or weather stations, the RAF space object surveillance base at

Flyingdales, other RAF bases, the Greenwich Observatory, etc. Its unique mission is to



el determine whether the reports are of interest for defense purposes (“area of defence

significance’).



| Nick Pope, who is currently a MOD career employee, has broken new ground in .

comparison with his predecessors. He has given interviews to the press and participated in

television programs.



He has cooperated with the ufological associations, giving their address and phone number

to witnesses who have written to him. In his letters of response he admitted that a small

proportion of UFO sightings defied explanation and that the MOD was keeping its mind



i open regarding these. His predecessors wrote: “Jf we had sufficient data, all of the cases

could undoubtedly be explained.” In his book, Nick Pope evokes various hypotheses to

explain certain unidentified cases that were the subject of credible and detailed reports.



fl He strongly favors the extraterrestrial hypothesis and expresses the desire that his ministry

take seriously the potential threat that UFOs represent in his eyes.



Is there a department that is further developed than his (where he is alone) in the



(| Ministry of Defence that would conduct secret studies on the UFO phenomenon? His

statements on the subject are contradictory (pp. 129 and 181). Ralph Noyes, who was

one of Nick Pope’s predecessors from 1969 to 1972 and ended his career at MOD in 1977



| as Undersecretary of State for Defence, considers the existence of such a department

likely. Lord Hill-Norton, Admiral of the Fleet, who was Chief of Defence Staff from 1971

to 1973, shares this opinion. This information is found in a book the foreword to which



| was written by Lord Hill-Norton himself (Above Top Secret, by Timothy Good). Admiral

Hill-Norton was among some thirty iords active in a House of Lords group studying UFOs

in the 1980s. If this secret study department does exist, it can be presumed that it works



A in collaboration with the United States (Above Top Secret, pp. 48-49).



9.3 Organization of the Research in Russia



| The Academy of Sciences of the USSR has conducted studies on UFOs since 1979 at

least. During that time, Vladimir Migouline, a member of this academy, expressed his



| opinion in La Recherche regarding the sightings made in the Soviet Union of luminous

phenomena and unusual objects: “The vast majority of these sightings correspond to real

phenomena just about the same as those sighted in other countries. But there is no



4 indisputable proof that some of them involve technological manifestations of a highly

developed civilization. It is also necessary to try to connect them with atmospheric

phenomena,” he said



i This is the goal that his assistant Platov aimed for in a work published in 1992, UFOs

and Modern Science. At that time, Migouline and Platov, heads of the expert’s group on



i abnormal phenomena in the Academy of Sciences, proposed a scientific and technical



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.

During “Glasnost,” information was disseminated on the studies being conducted by

both the KGB and by the military. In 1991, the KGB declassified 124 pages of documents

from Cases of Sightings of Abnormal Events over USSR Territory, 1982-1990, which

covered a total of 17 regions. One of these cases, which we detailed in Chapter 3, |

concerns the extraordinary aerial maneuvers of three bright disks over an Army missile

base near Astrakhan in 1989. The objects, which were sighted by seven military members,

went from hovering to high speed and back again all without making any noise. When it fj

was approached by a Soviet fighter jet, one object escaped so quickly that it seemed to

leave the fighter jet standing still in its tracks.

In 1994, Colonel Boris Sokolov sold ABC News a collection of investigations R

conducted by military personnel from 1978 to 1988. Earlier, in 1990, the newspaper

Rabochaya Tribuna had published an article by Aviation General Maltsev, who

commanded the territorial air defense, concerning a well-documented visual/radar case |

with multiple witnesses (Pereslav-Zalesski, the night of March 21, 1990) in which a silent E

discoid object went from hovering to a speed two or three times faster than that of a

modern fighter jet. We described this case in Chapter 2. i

PART 3 i

UFOs and Defense |

To date, a UFO has not been the certain cause of any accident or a fortiori any hostile act,

at least officially; no UFO threat has materialized in France, although intimidation |

maneuvers have been confirmed (Chapters 1.1, 2.1, and 2.3). However, numerous

manifestations observed by reliable witnesses could be the work of craft of extraterrestrial

origin. Indeed, if it were a question of terrestrial craft, these could only be American and, |

despite all precautions taken to maintain secrecy, this would be known. The first

prototype stealth aircraft flew at the end of 1977; the existence of stealth aircraft became

known about ten years later, in 1988. But credible, confirmed UFO sightings began in |

1944.

Certainly, this subject still sometimes elicits amused skepticism, if not a certain mistrust fi

with regard to those who mention it seriously, but in the absence of explanations for the

phenomena sighted, the hypothesis of an extraterrestrial origin can no longer be ruled out.

In this third part, we set out to study, froma strategic, scientific, political, religious, and |

media standpoint, the consequences of this hypothesis based on present scientific

knowledge.

Chapter 10 - Strategic Planning

The definition of a strategy toward an “adversary” requires that one know the i



! 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

if and their interpretation, while trying to answer three questions: Who are they? What are

their intentions? Are they seeking to make contact or have they already done so?



10.1 What Extraterrestrials? Who Are They and What Are They Like?



i] A relative consistency emerges from the numerous descriptions of the phenomena:

saucer, luminous sphere or cylinder, hovering followed by accelerations at lightning speed,

the absence of noise, easily supersonic speed with no sonic boom, associated



i electromagnetic effects that interfere with the operation of nearby radio or electrical



4 apparatus. Obviously, these extraterrestrials are highly endowed intellectually and are

technologically advanced over us to have been able to achieve what we do not yet know

| how to do. But the rest remains a mystery! Morphology, physical make-up, type of life,

manner of communication and form of society, sense of values, concept of time,

motivations, etc. If they are observing us, it is necessary to note an apparent contradiction



A between the interest that they show in us and their furtiveness. Rather than observe us, it

seems that they want to show themselves to us and to gradually acclimate us to the idea of



i their existence. ¥

10.2 What Intentions and What Strategy Can We Deduce from Their Behavior?



(| Extrapolation based on a rational analysis of the objectives that the extraterrestrial

civilization or civilizations could be pursuing should permit us to get an idea of the

strategies that they are implementing and should consequently lead us, in response, to



| deduce the broad lines of what our own strategies might be. UFOs have manifested

themselves in many places throughout the world in recent decades, with surprising peaks

between 1952 and 1954, without our being able to deduce a well-defined course of action.



A What are they seeking?



After the observation phase and the phase of demonstrating that they exist, it would

seem logical to us for them to be seeking to leave their mark and impose their will on the

| States of the earth, but at present, nothing allows us to deduce from their manifestations

the existence of a driving desire serving purposes that we are presently unable to discern.

It is plausible that preferred contacts can be attributed to the United States. But nothing



i contradicts the possible establishment of other contacts with some European countries or

even with Russia, China, or Japan, [or] others perhaps... However, it seems difficult to

imagine that they could have been able to position themselves on earth with the complicity



| of certain States. Moreover, the hypotheses of contacts do not enable us to deduce the

existence of some status quo with these visitors. Actually, the sporadic manifestations of

UFOs and even the occurrence of repeated waves [of sightings] have continued since



ij 1947. One would have every right to think that these visitors - fortified by their

superiority - are showing their intention to continue to make themselves known in the

most diverse locations on the planet and to continue to carry out their plans, the aims and



ki means of which still escape us. It could be that, before 1947 and after, they have had fears

for the future of earth, a future threatened by risks of nuclear war. Their influences have

been able to be accompanied by appropriate demonstrations:



| - overflights of nuclear missile bases, an example of which is given in Chapter 3,



- intimidation maneuvers against aircraft as in Luxeuil and Tehran (Chapters 1.1 and



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 |

extraterrestrial civilizations have established stations, even colonies, in the asteroid belt

and why not relay stations on the moon? Our forays and projects studied in the United

States for modifying the orbits of asteroids using H bombs in order to bring them closer to ff

the earth’s orbit for mining purposes could be disturbing them. For the moment, they do

not appear to be meddling in our affairs, but it is advisable to ask ourselves what they are

actually seeking. Do they want to invade earth? To preserve it from nuclear self- i

destruction? To learn about and preserve the patrimony that our civilizations have created

over the span of centuries? In view of these uncertainties concerning their intentions, we

can’t tell what the future holds and, in particular, we cannot consider that they will a

continue not to intervene. Some of their undertakings in regard to us might, therefore, not

be innocent in the long term. Perhaps they don’t have any need for our sensibilities or the

politics of States? |

10.3 Repercussions of UFO Manifestations or: the Official and Unofficial Conduct of

States |

The repercussions have been varied in scope. Based on what can be learned of the -

reactions of States, it is permissible under our hypothesis to classify them as: fl

a) States that have no knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena _ or believe they are not

concemed.

b) States that know of extraterrestrial phenomena but have no means to investigate |

them,

: c) States that know of extraterrestrial phenomena and have the means to investigate

them, i]

d) States that have entered into contact with one or more extraterrestrial civilizations

and that have established relations and/or entered into political, scientific, and

technical collaboration. |

10.4 Have Contacts Possibly Been Made with One or More States?

Individuals claim to have been contacted for the purpose of studies or with a view to )

establishing relations between one intelligent life form and another. Can we imagine direct

and continuous contacts at the highest level of one or more States, particularly the United f]

States? It is true that the position of that country has been among the strangest since the

wave [of sightings] in June 1947, followed by the Roswell affair in July 1947 (cf.

Appendix 5). If the Americans were able on that occasion or on other occasions to collect [

at least debris or entire wreckage of extraterrestrial vessels in fairly good condition, and

even cadavers of humanoids, a certain type of contact would then have been established.

First statements and reactions are often considered to be more probative than s

subsequent affirmations. Thus immediately following what would later become the

Roswell affair, General Twining was tasked with Preparing a secret report on “flying

disks,” the existence of which was not revealed until 22 years later in the Condon report. bi

It emerges from this that these objects truly do exist. But since then the United States has

followed a policy of increasing secrecy (classification above “top secret” of certain UFO Hi



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 would be that the United States wants to maintain at any cost military



| technological superiority over rival countries and, perhaps, a preferential contact.



This policy of secrecy and disinformation could have been dictated by an

understandable concern for not creating panic reactions or irrational crazes among the



(| public, or the concer at the time for protecting the country against actions by the USSR,

or else, in a more prosaic and political fashion, not appearing in the eyes of voters to be

incapable of providing convincing explanations regarding these phenomena. No doubt it



| would not do to undermine the prestige of the armed forces, which was incapable of

interdicting these violations of air space, and invite attacks against the military budgets on

the part of political opponents. Anything is conceivable, even the fear of seeing various



| government agencies accused of having lied at one time or another.

Whatever the case, it is symptomatic and illustrative to note that since 1953, the United



(| States has equipped itself with an impressive repressive arsenal, which is still in force, it



: seems. In particular, they enacted two military regulations, AFR (Air Force Regulation)

200-2 and JANAP (Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication) 146, the first prohibiting the



( public disclosure of information relating to sightings of unidentified objects and the second

making the unauthorized disclosure of a UFO sighting by the witness an infraction

punishable by 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The JANAP regulation applies to



ff military personnel, but also to commercial airline pilots and captains in the merchant

marine.



F 10.5 What Measures Must We Take From Now On?



Fe Whether or not UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, the UFO phenomenon is already

with us and, at any rate, requires critical vigilance on our part. In particular, the

phenomenon involves risks of destabilizing manipulations from a media, psychological,



i] cultural, and religious standpoint: panic fear, world wars, psychoses created by sects or

lobbies, etc. These appreciable risks of cosmic fear, as well as the discovery and no doubt

conquest of the cosmos that is to come, henceforth justify, on the part of the political,



il scientific, and intellectual elite, a certain degree of cosmic vigilance calculated to prevent

any shocking surprise, erroneous interpretation, and malicious or unhealthy manipulation.



i Without a doubt, measures must be contemplated on the national and international

levels. Specifically, whatever the givens are with respect to American political problems,

and in the face of a posture of ongoing secrecy, how can we conceive of harmonious



i political and military relations among allies, and particularly within NATO, which normally

must be founded on basic trust, if access to information of incalculable importance -

particularly technological information - is not shared?



H 10.5.1 National Structures



| If France wants to affirm its presence in this domain, it seems urgent to expand

SEPRA, which must:



- 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 would likewise be advisable to create a unit at the highest State level to collaborate al

with SEPRA that would be tasked with:

- formulating all prospective hypotheses,

- promoting scientific and technical research and, as such, would have a small minimum i

budget,

- proposing elements of military strategy,

- participating in the establishment of regional cooperation agreements with interested |

European and foreign countries. It should be noted that many countries already have

small bodies for the collection of UFO sightings within their armed forces or intelligence .

services, . il

10.5.2 European Structures

It would be desirable then for the European States and the European Union i

Commission to conduct every type of research and to initiate diplomatic approaches with

the United States, exerting useful pressure, to clarify this crucial issue, which must fall al

within the scope of political and strategic alliances. Would it perhaps be opportune for

France to propose to the Commission that it create within it - so as to no longer be blind,

dumb, and paralyzed - a special expanded coordinating body provided with the necessary fi

human and material resources?

10.6 What Situations Must We Prepare For? |

What strategies could we map out in the following situations:

- appearance of UFO and extraterrestrial desire to establish an official and peaceful (|

contact,

- chance or intentional discovery of a microbase or base at some location in France or

in Europe: position to adopt toward a friendly or non-friendly power, i

- invasion (hardly likely given the fact that an invasion could have been carried out

before the discovery of the atom) and targeted or massive attacks on strategic or 3

nonstrategic locations,

- deliberate manipulation or disinformation with a view to destabilizing other States.

In the case of the first situation cited, we are not precluded from suggesting that the |

States that are equipped with sophisticated research and analysis tools will perhaps have

more chances than others of being chosen as preferred contacts, but at what risks and

advantages? Fl

Chapter I1 - Aeronautical Implications by

11.1 Why Aeronautical Implications?

It is not intellectually possible to remain indifferent in light of an unexplained I



aeronautical phenomenon which numerous civilian and military pilots have come face to

1] 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,

i - detection of a track on a radar screen, which occurs in one out of five aeronautical

cases, sometimes culminating in the recording of a track, as was the case on January 28,

1994, at the Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Control and Detection Center (CDC) (cf. Chapter 1),

i - interferences with ground (San Carlos de Bariloche) or onboard (Tehran) electrical or

electronic equipment,

- shadowing of aircraft (San Carlos de Bariloche, RB-47, etc.),

| - apparently aggressive conduct ( Colonel Giraud in his Mirage IV, student pilot at

Tours, the Tehran incident, etc.).

The number of testimonies and the quality of the witnesses are such that one cannot dodge

, [| the phenomenon and aeronautic personnel, and more especially defense personnel, must be

sensitized and prepared to deal with the situation. In fact, how can one try to ignore a

phenomenon that is manifested by the regular crossing of our air space by moving objects

i the behavior of which suggests that they are piloted by an intelligent [being]? Can one

claim, because this appears to exceed our technical knowledge, that it does not fall within

our purview? If we do nothing, the very principle of defense and air intelligence would be

{j called into question.

The first sightings made by aviators date back to the beginning of the 40s. Since then,

the number of unexplained sightings (after an expert’s appraisal: UAP Ds) reported by ~

El pilots or [air traffic] controllers has risen to over 500. Asa reminder, in France, this figure

is three or four since 1951. It is the responsibility of the Air Force to take into account

these phenomena, which, until proven otherwise, occur primarily in air space.

H 11.2 Who is Involved?

i 11.2.1Flight Crew

The flight crew is naturally involved, particularly the pilots, because whether they are

i civilian or military, they are in a more advantageous position for making sightings and

would be the first affected in the event of an incident (risk of collision, in particular). This

is especially true for a combat pilot, because he is trained to constantly monitor the sky

i and he now has more and more advanced weapons systems capable of detecting faster and

faster and smaller and smaller targets at greater and greater distances. The pilot/weapons

system pair is now more than ever an excellent sighting instrument and would be our first

A means of intervention if, by chance, this were to prove necessary. The concerns of a

commercial airline pilot are different because, in addition to the fact that he does not have

the same equipment, his priority is obviously the safety of his passengers. Although he

if remains a primary partner in the quest for information, he would be totally powerless in

the face of an aggressive stance by a UFO.

| 11.2.2 [Air Traffic] Controllers

The radar [air traffic] controller is, of course, involved, but depending on whether he is

Kf civilian or military, the control equipment at his disposal offer him different options. In

both cases, since he is in radio contact with the pilot, it is he who is the first to receive the

sighting report from the crew.



He must be prepared to note and supplement the sightings transmitted with the clear-

headedness that the distance of his position gives him. In regard to radar detection, only fl

the military controller has adequate equipment to detect a flying object that does not

follow general air traffic rules. In fact, military air defense radars permit a visual display of

the primary detection, as well as a synthetic display used by civilian (air traffic] controllers, eI

to appear on the military controller’s radar scope (see Appendix 1). In addition, they are '

the only ones who are able to obtain an image of craft moving at the supposed speeds of

UFOs. Finally, the means to record and reconstruct radar situations on site at the Control fl

and Detection Centers (CDC) enable supplemental investigations to be conducted, if :

necessary. Gj

11.2.3 Meteorologists

Unusual phenomena are often explained by meteorological phenomena. Questions can (

easily be explained if the specialized departments are informed of the importance of their :

observations. All military and civilian personnel specializing in meteorology must

therefore be able to meet this expectation. |

11.2.4 CNES Engineers ’

CNES engineers are the French space specialists. They cannot remain indifferent to A

UFO phenomena. Knowledge of our universe, observation of the sky, and surveillance of

anything that is deployed into the sky naturally makes them just the right people to head i

up the study of extraterrestrial phenomena. We have described their work above.

11.2.5 Engineers in the Aeronautics Sector |

Engineers in the aeronautic sector are naturally involved. Their work is presented in

the next chapter on scientific and technical implications. (7

11.3 How Do We Involve Aeronautics [Personnel]?

In order for aeronautics personnel, along with their resources, to be involved, we need iH

to know how to interest them and, in order to do this, how to inform them of the

phenomenon, to specify what is expected of them, and to define what their reflex

responses should be and what course of action they should take. f]

11.3.1 Informing Personnel F

Informing amounts, first and foremost, to getting someone to accept the possibility of

the presence of extraterrestrial craft in our sky. It is necessary to overcome the fear of

ridicule and to admit that, failing certainty, there are strong presumptions based on a list of i

examples selected from among the testimonies from the aeronautics world.

Moreover, it is necessary to reach all generations. Informational conferences can be

easily scheduled at aeronautics schools for the young generations (Ecole de I’ Air, Ecole i

Nationale de I’ Aviation Civile [National Civil Aviation School] (ENAC, Sup’ Aéro, etc.),

and for the not-so-young, in continuing education courses and, obviously, at the Collége

Interarmées de Défense [Interarmy Defense College] (CID) and IHEDN. SEPRA is 7]

already holding conferences at ENAC within the framework of civilian [air traffic]



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 military

| personnel, and, at least for civilian [air traffic] controllers, at the Regional Air Navigation

Centers (CRNA). As for commercial flight crews, the airline companies - Air France, in

particular - have set up a systematic information sheet for crews that is periodically

| updated.

' This information must furthermore be updated on a regular basis in the knowledge that

the intended objective is to permit a future witness, whether he plays an active role or is

i merely an observer, to be fully aware of what course of action to take in the face of the

phenomenon sighted. If we want personnel to get involved, it is necessary that they know

how to react in real time and what to communicate and to whom, how to take the

| measures corresponding to the present situation, etc. For this reason, it is advisable to

define with them what their reflex responses should be and what course of action they

should take.

| 11.3.2 Reflex Responses

i Indeed, it is necessary to instill in personnel who may face the phenomenon what their

reflex responses should be, in the knowledge that they may merely be simple observers or,

in some cases, have to take concrete measures (for example, at San Carlos de Bariloche,

A the surprise of the landing strip lights going out in the middle of the UFO incident). It is

quite certain that it would be better to be prepared in order to be fully aware of what

course of action to take in the face of such an unforeseen and poorly understood event.

fi These reflex responses differ in type depending on whether it is a matter of sighting,

recording a testimony, transmitting information collected, or reacting in real time in order

to take ad hoc measures in response to the phenomenon.

i 11.3.3 Course of Action to Take

The course of action to take seems to us to be summarized as follows: observe, note

j the maximum amount of details, take photographs if possible, report, allowing the visitors

the initiative of possibly making contact, and avoid premature publicity in the media.

A 11.3.3.1 Objective Observation

In the face of an unknown situation, one must be on guard against any instinctive self-

(i defense reaction that could be easily interpreted as a provocation. One must just observe

and avoid any initiative aimed at seeking contact.

ij 11.3.3.2 Reporting

Once a phenomenon has been sighted, it is advisable to report it in order to alert the

other crews, on the one hand, which is what is currently done, and the authorities, on the

| other hand, through the air [traffic] control chain of command in civilian cases and the air

defense chain of command in military cases.

id 11.3.3.3 Remaining Discrete Vis-a-Vis the Public

As a witness to a phenomenon of this type, one must know how to adopt a certain level

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of discretion vis-a-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 Al

could result in the disappearance of important evidence.

Chapter 12 - Scientific and Technical Implications |

The significance of the UFO phenomenon to defense in the broad sense leads to several

proposals. j

12.1 Stepping Up the Collection and Analysis of Data

It is, of course, advisable to continue and, if possible, expand geographically the |

collection, initial analysis, and classification of data and testimonies performed

i successively by GEPAN and then by SEPRA, which was described in Chapters 5 and 6. |

12.2 Establishing a Watch and Initiate Work Upstream

From the studies presented in Chapter 8, it can be concluded that at least a passive, and |

preferably an active, techno-watch is required in the fields of leading-edge propulsion such “a

as, for example, magnetohydrodynamics. It is truly essential to know what the other

nations are doing in this area. In other high-tech fields, the study of the various (i

testimonies could be combined with appropriate scientific experiments to enable significant.

Progress. A typical example is that of particle beams or microwaves, together with their

effects: tools, weapons, etc. All of these subjects are, on the whole, more advanced than |

the technical problems presently under study by DGA or the public research institutions.

Therefore they will not be dealt with unless a decision is made at the highest State level. i

12.3 Encouraging Thought in Order to Place the Phenomena in a Global Context

The work mentioned above will enable progress in the partial models of the phenomena i

sighted, along with considerable spill-over for defense and industry. But the global

interpretation of these well-documented but inexplicable phenomena will require other |

research. The principal areas of research relate to the extraterrestrial hypothesis; we will

mention ,for reference, the current research on the detection of extrasolar planets, which

will take a new direction when the VLT (Very Large Telescope) of the ESO (European i

Southern Observatory) in Chile enables them to be observed directly. Each discovery of a

planet, which is presently made indirectly via the disturbances that the planet causes in its

star, has met with a favorable response in the media. i

Less spectacular, albeit fascinating to a cultured public, is the research on the origin of

life that is being conducted internationally at a very satisfying rate. It forms the basis of

exobiology, the science of extraterrestrial life (see Appendix 3). Studies on evolution and |

its mechanisms are currently handicapped by school disputes. They are important to our

subject: How might life evolve elsewhere? Underdeveloped but also important are the

studies on the genesis and future of civilizations, The latter are normally extended by {

long-term, forward-looking scenarios for our planet and, of course, for others.

Interstellar travel, as visualized in Appendix 4 - entitled “Colonization of Space” - must

be the object of at least passive monitoring. This subject is currently being dealt with in {i

the United States, where numerous NASA or Pentagon study contracts concern



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 out the study, he examined the photos taken in 1983 by the /RAS [Infrared

| Astronomical Satellite] satellite and looked for possible abnormal infrared emissions

coming from objects in this belt. It would seem that NASA did not renew Papagiannis’

contract, which apparently did not yield any results.

( 12.4 Special Studies

Some studies do not come under the “hard” sciences and technologies: for interstellar

| voyages, the stability of the earmarked societies requires study. What, in particular, is

their minimum size? The different attempts at disinformation made by certain foreign

| governments should be analyzed discretely, but in depth. The wish of these governments

to appropriate for themselves alone any possible futuristic technologies relating to military

aircraft and weapons might help explain these attempts (see Appendices 5 and 7). It

i would be advisable to already be anticipating the measures to be taken and the decisions to

be made should events such as indubitable physical or radio contacts with an outside

civilization take place.

il Chapter 13 - Political and Religious Implications

| An assessment of the impact that the formal confirmation of the existence of UFOs and

extraterrestrial civilizations would have on the political and religious situation of the

countries on earth could be a bit of a challenge. However, the task is less arduous when

| we try to put ourselves in the shoes of extraterrestrials who supposedly have chosen earth

as a field of observation and/or intervention. We will use this method. It is appropriate,

of course, to postulate that the technical and human difficulties have been resolved,

i} permitting us to exceed the limits of our solar system, and even our galaxy:

- Either in secular voyages aboard “ship-worlds,” in which thousands of volunteers

who have embarked would see their generations reproduce. It is necessary to keep in

| mind that these craft will not be able to one day return to earth, at least that is what we are

assuming, which would confer - de facto - a political autonomy and freedom of decision to

the onboard government independent of orders and programs established prior to

| departing earth (cf. Appendix 4: “Colonization of Space”).

- Or, in [voyages of] several months or years - based on totally revolutionary scientific

qj concepts and techniques that remain to be imagined - using aircraft or probes piloted by

classic crews or by bionic androids, which would follow the instructions received from a

parent station or from earth.

During the course of these explorations, we might discover one or more celestial bodies

i populated with beings that have evolved more or less similarly to us, “humans,” humanoid,

or even stranger creatures. They may have created civilizations that are comparable to or

more advanced than our present civilization, or they may be endowed with only

il rudimentary aptitudes for civilization, unless they still remain only at the elementary

survival stage.

i (Nota Bene: in this chapter, the numbers in parentheses refer to the references, pp. 87

to 89)



13.1 Phase One: Observation From a Distance (Remote Sensing and Observation ?) i

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 line of descendants there (cf. 13.4 below). The state of advancement

of the local populations will likely dictate the manner of obtaining, as well as the nature

and duration, of these observations, and the initial observations will, of course, be for i

analyzing:

- the living organisms, the manners in which they think and live, their languages, their

religions and beliefs, their arts, sciences, techniques and weapons, their political |

institutions, their social organizations, and their histories in general,

- the environments in which these populations live, [and] animals, plants, minerals, etc.



: This first phase, which excludes any physical or material contact, would be that of |

scientific, in vivo laboratory observation: electronic surveillance, remote sensing,

recording, decrypting of languages, analyses, evaluations, etc. It is important to .

emphasize that this period could last one year, ten years, a century, [or] a thousand years, i

why not ? Actually, what better scientific experiment - Jato sensu - than that of having :

more or less civilized, stagnant or evolving populations, either at peace or at war, :

organized in a hundred different manners, no doubt having languages that are foreign to |

one another, each one assuming, in its own way, the organization of ts terrestrial and .

celestial cities. In a word, we would be in the situation of observing ourselves! r

13.2 Phase Two: In situ Sampling and Furtive Appearances |



The interpretation of the data collected can only be complete when a second phase has

been implemented, during which sampling and analyses of mineral, plant, and animal

elements, and perhaps even elements from evolved beings, are performed. Consequently, hi

the question is raised as to-the types of contacts that would be appropriate to establish and

the political, psychological, and religious implications for the local populations that might

result from these contacts: furtive and covert contacts, visible and overt contacts, |

continuous or intermittent contacts. If the furtive and covert mode of operation is

initiallyselected, it nevertheless could not - at least based on the present state of our

technology - go completely unnoticed by the indigenous populations. It is permissible to i

consider that the psychological and religious impacts may vary according to the different

types of political organizations and the levels of moral and scientific development

encountered on the same world. Fi

13.2.1 Impacts on Preindustrial-Age Civilizations Ri

Individuals or masses from preindustrial-age civilizations might note the passage and/or

landing of our ships or our remote-controlled craft. They might collectively view them

equally as natural, divine, extraordinary, supernatural, aberrant, or diabolical phenomena fh

(frescoes in the Yugoslavian monastery at Detchani, spheres in Nuremberg and Basel in

1561 and 1566 - cf. Appendix 6). Furthermore, the collective memories of these peop:es

and their imagination in general could be more or less sharply marked by such |

manifestations if they are accompanied, in particular, by the sighting of our astronauts,



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 impact capable of modifying the indigenous political and religious conceptions for

| some time.

| 13.2.1.1 Impacts on Local Religions

Since terrestrial and celestial orders are closely interlinked in people’s minds, the

appearances of spaceships or remote-controlled craft, and, moreover, the appearances of

q astronauts or bionic robots, would be capable of creating a lasting impression in minds,

reorienting religions, inspiring new ones. or originating founding myths. The flying

| machines that Ezekiel described at length (1), the air war of the Ramayana, the Epic of

Gilgamesh (2), the Elohim of Genesis (3), and the Watchmen of the Sky, mixing with the

daughters of men and begetting giants, whom Enoch also speaks of (4), and more

| generally, the Immortals, the Sons or the Kings of the Sky of the Orient and China (5),

Japan, the “Land of Gods” (6), the Viracochas of South America, the Incas, or the great

gods of Ancient Egypt, the Gods, the Titans, the Giants, the Children of the Gods, and the

Heros of western and oriental Antiquity (7), etc., come to mind.

Both supernatural and extraordinary phenomena were part of the natural order of things

in the past. Would religions founded on the existence of a God or a creative order be :

A shattered by such apparitions? Nothing is less certain. Once the shock, terror, and

curiosity have passed, a new appreciation of the cosmic order could replace the old

religious conceptions, without necessarily destroying the divine principle itself. To say the

it least, these religious conceptions could be reoriented or even sublimated. God does not

travel around ina spaceship. Besides, the great religions of earth do not condemn the idea

of the existence of other inhabited worlds in the universe. Must we recall that certain

jj collective memories experience aberrations, despite the tangible proof subsequently i

furnished to the catechumen (the cult of the cargo plane in New Hebrides) (8)?

Bonaparte’s military and scientific expedition to Egypt left no trace in the local annals,

t] which recorded only an interruption of the pilgrimage to Mecca (9). Closer to home,

many people did not believe that men had walked on the moon, believing it to be a

publicity stunt or disinformation. It would be appropriate, however, to avoid

| overestimating this impact, insofar as all ancient civilizations conceived of pantheons, the

gods of which were associated with terrifying manifestations of the sea, wind, volcanoes,

earthquakes, or .lightning. It is therefore difficult to say whether they were the avatars of

| extraterrestrial influences or, more simply, the product of the invention of mythologies

explaining the world.

| 13.2.1.2 Political Impacts

With respect to the political impacts, these should be much more ephemeral, at least in

i appearance. In fact, once the moments of astonishment have passed, the political

organization of States does not seem to have to be affected in a lasting manner, since

contingencies quickly regain the upper hand. However, that monarch or chief of state

| could proclaim himself the exclusive and privileged interpreter of these extraordinary

manifestations. Would he not be tempted to consecrate himself a god-king or a king-god



| 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 abounds in god-

kings or king-gods (pharaohs; Assyrian kings; Hellenic epiphanic kings; Roman, Chinese, |

or Japanese emperors; sons of the Sun of Central or South America, etc.).

13.2.2 Impacts on Industrial-A ge Civilizations |

Industrial-age civilizations are more skeptical than they formerly were and have more

difficulty envisioning what is not a product of the immediately explainable or the simply |

measurable. However, it is certain that the furnishing of irrefutable proof of the existence

of extraterrestrials would leave a profound mark on populations such as ours today. This

issue is at the heart of our report. i

13.3 Phase Three: Influences on Local Civilizations |

The third phase would be that of the influences that we would consider appropriate to

exert on the environment and the civilizations encountered with a view to causing them to

evolve in our fashion. It goes without saying that the advantages and risks would have to H

be studied carefully.

13.3.1 Influences on Preindustrial-Age Civilizations |

We might consider it necessary, in certain cases, to influence the environment in a

specific manner and the evolution of local civilizations in a subtle way. It might seem (

necessary to us, upon completion of our observations and our analyses, to modify, bit by

bit, the natural environment and the ecosystem by, for example, seeding or introducing

select plants and organisms that are lacking. |

Likewise, the course of indigenous civilizations could be gradually modified by

influencing, either from a distance or directly, the qualities or defects of select individuals,

accentuating their intellectual and moral tendencies and their scientific knowledge, or by |

causing genetic mutations by different processes that are yet to be invented.

In this case, it would be a matter of playing the role that these populations would have

willingly reserved for gods, who, by providing sacred texts, would reorient, for example, |

their sense of morals, their religiosity, and perhaps their laws and their political :

institutions. The use of elements likely to terrify and impress could be appropriate in some

cases. And, with all due reverence, nothing would prevent one from thinking of different |

episodes in the Old Testament, the conditions under which the laws of Manu were

instituted (10) or even the Koran given. The influences relate back to a certain number of

enigmas in history, including, perhaps, the concomitant appearance of the great |

civilizations of the Indus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt (cities, architecture, writing, calendar,

astronomy, etc.). They also call to mind the extraordinary map of the Antarctic, which

was drawn almost free of ice by the Frenchman Oronce Finé in 1531, nearly three centuries fi

prior to the discovery of this continent in 1820 (11).

13.3.2 Influences on Industrial-A ge Civilizations w



ll 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

fi existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. It would be advisable beforehand to accustom

the mind of these populations to the idea of the probable existence of extraterrestrial

civilizations (science-fiction novels, films, cartoon strips, video games, advertisements, a

| favorable psychological climate, [and] why not suitable sects?, etc.).

New and essential technological knowledge could be provided via different avenues or

by means of chance or provoked accidents with one of our spacecraft. The contemporary

i Roswell case thus comes to mind. In order forthis case to be retained in full (or disposed

of), it would still be necessary for the U.S. government to accept to show, communicate

| and let analyze, without beating around he bush, all of the elements that it actually

recovered on that occasion.

| 13.4 Phase Four: Direct Contacts

A fourth phase would be that of establishing direct contact with the locals or with entire

a populations, whether or not a vanguard of bionic robots were used. Once again, the goals

sought must be precisely determined. The benefit and true utility of establishing such

contacts must be weighed with care in order to calculate the risks and consequences. A

i stringent program could plan for these. However, a serious technical accident affecting

one of our spacecraft could be the start of an unofficial contact, a necessary settlement, or

_ acolonization, or even, if necessary, an information-disinformation campaign. It is also

| advisable to envision the sedition of some of our crews whom it might be necessary to

disembark or who might decide on their own authority to live on one of the worlds

discovered and, eventually , mix with the indigenous populations, going against orders

| received, whatever happens not to intervene or interfere in local affairs. These contacts

presuppose that the worlds discovered are populated with human beings or hominids

whose complexion is identical or close to ours. But under the hypothesis of contacts and

| planned long-term settlements of members of our crews, should mixes be prohibited, as

prophylaxis, by imposing a major ban on them (12) or, on the contrary, should they be

tolerated and even encouraged? Bearing in mind that direct or prolonged contacts would

(| inevitably lead the indigenous populations to believe, in fine, that we are not so different

from them. It would be prudent, however, to send remote-controlled androids in advance

in order to assess the reactions that such an intrusion would arouse, or to acclimate the

| populations to the idea through furtive, episodic appearances.

| 13.4.1 Direct Contacts with Preindustrial-Age Civilizations

It is certain that such contacts would immediately cause the local populations to

imagine that they are in the presence of gods. Historical parallels naturally come to mind:

| the arrival of the Spaniards in Central America in armor and on horseback, or, more

generally, the arrival of the Europeans at the time of the discovery and exploration of the

globe. The impact on populations that had never seen horses, armor that shone brightly in

i the sun, or white men, particularly with blond or red hair, must have been felt strongly.

However, the shock of these apparitions would be quickly lessened with the multiplication

of relations, and even more so if our crews were to take an eminent place in the local

ii political and military orders. This, of course, relates back to the different epics of the

discovery of the world, European colonization, and also the end of the western empires.



13.4.2 Direct Contacts with Industrial-Age Civilizations 4

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 established discretely with selected i

individuals or at the highest level of the States, or of some of them, and, if possible, be <a

kept secret. Although leaks should not be ruled out, the leaders selected would then have fl

to conduct information, disinformation, and counterinformation campaigns to maintain the

privileged nature of these relations and, who knows, to benefit, from our side, from novel

scientific, technical, and political information, giving them an edge over their rivals. The |

selection of States, rulers, key figures, or mere individuals would, of course, be of

paramount importance. .

Before or after the implementation of an influencing program, why not imagine having i]

bionic robots that look like humans or resemble the living beings there appear in order not

to risk the lives of members of our expeditions? Finally, why not purely and simply

present ourselves openly and publicly? It is easy to imagine the huge sensation that this |

would cause in all psychological, political, military, strategic, and religious spheres, to say L

nothing of the media, [as well as the] multiple meetings and international colloquiums, :

uninterrupted sessions of organizations such as the UN, calls for “world unity,” i

international consultations, the creation of welcoming committees, etc. [that it would

prompt]. The rivalry of the States would be interesting to observe.

. _ It goes without saying that our intentions must be perceived as peaceful. If this were |

not our policy, there would, of course, be no need to take special precautions to show

consideration for the sentiments of the local populations. In all of these scenarios, we

should encounter idolaters, sycophants, Herodians, who, out of a millenialist conviction, i

gullibility, pragmatism, or interest, would welcome us with enthusiasm as saviors, capable

of solving all of their problems and bringing them peace and prosperity, preferably without

having to exert much effort. These would be our first allies. Zealots, skeptics, and those |

who have withdrawn into the venerable secular conceptions of their world, which has been .

turned upside-down, would cast doubt on or deny our existence. If they were to admit it,

they would consider us as so many invaders, whose intentions would be perceived as all [|

the more suspect since they would be peaceful. There is but one logical step to take

between that and imagining the creation of defense movements and resistance movements

against the invader. The strength of these movements would depend, in part, on our skill |

in squashing them, convincing them, in the hope of attaching them to us. é

But how then do we avoid the pitfall of good intentions and good sentiments that

everyone knows the road to hell is paved with? (13) Should we admit how long we have q

been observing them? Would they reproach us for not having intervened to prevent a

world war, or would they blame us for it, or, more generally, would they hold it against us

that we changed the course of civilizations? Very severe and lasting psychological i]

disturbances should be envisioned in these cases.

Would they be disappointed to learn that we are not immortal? Later, economic and

technological exchanges and financial ties should be established with these populations. |

Would it be a wise policy to involve ourselves in local affairs? And in one manner or

another, could we escape the requests to become arbitrators of political disagreements,

peace, war, and economic crises? h

Whatever the case, one day or another we would be in charge of the unsolved

problems. Would they not go so far as to reproach us for the contributions of our very K



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 movements would consequently arise and revolutionary cycles



(| would no doubt be set in motion, as a result of which we, as well as our Herodian allies,

would suffer. Our global policy would then be compromised and we would have to

consider making our contacts less frequent and, possibly, withdrawing onto our ships and



R retreating. We would then have the time necessary to review our policies, based on

techniques still unknown from our catechumens.



The discovery of new worlds could enable us to enter into contact with civilizations just



i as developed as our own and even far more advanced. Nothing allows us to rule out the

possibility that, why not , we would encounter explorers from other more distant worlds.

Under these hypothetical conditions, it is permissible to imagine that we might have been



| discovered in space first. It would be our turn then to experience - at least in part - the

psychological effects and the political and religious implications that we have described.

What would be the policy of local governments toward us? Would they welcome us



i peacefully or would they prudently keep us at a distance? Should we fear seeing nuclear

space weapons or other weapons aimed at ourselves gainst, for example, the bases that we

had attempted to establish or had succeeded in establishing in an asteroid belt close to one



(] of their worlds?



What would be the results of such encounters? What relations could we establish and

what influences would we exert on these different types of civilizations? Anything is



| conceivable. Having come full circle, we thus return to our concerns and our current

questions.



ii Chapter 14 - Media Implications



| As was stressed earlier, it may seem extravagant that sensible people, scientists

moreover, are interested in unexplained - and for the time being still inexplicable -

phenomena at the risk of appearing ridiculous. But, as this report tries to demonstrate,



(| there are enough questions regarding tangible evidence to justify the scientific interest

generated by these issues. What separates our approach from the media’s approach is the

researcher’s curiosity with respect to the research to be conducted in order to solve the



| enigmas posed to his sagacity even if science has not reached an adequate state to answer

them fully, as opposed to the curiosity of the press regarding a subject with regular

sudden new developments that are likely to produce marvelous scoops, which generally



i are not characterized by scientific precision.



It is not a question of criticizing the press; its aid is often most valuable. But these

fleeting events are supported in part by human testimonies, which are all the more flimsy



a since they come from people who are affected by their encounter with “the unknown” and

since they elude the usual benchmarks. The press has a tendency sometimes to either

ridicule the facts reported or to make itself look ridiculous because of the excess of



| information extrapolated from the elements described by the witnesses.



i 14.1 What Can a Government Fear From the Curiosity of the Media?



- Panic: the media broadcast terrifying information liable to sow panic among the



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-a-vis the Roswell incident

in 1947. The disinformation campaign was skillfully conducted, since it has muzzled the

media for 30 years. Panic, which is accompanied by considerable human chaos (suicides, |

people fleeing on the roads, riots, and vandalism, etc.) would cause any government for

which peace alone is a wealth and stability factor for its power to shrink back.

. - Mistrust: the fear of seeing accurate information divulged and repeated with obvious |

irony is also a deterrent to openly mentioning UFO questions. This posture is at the core

of the disinformation and confusion in which public opinion is steeped with regard to what

is true and what is false. It can only be dreaded by decision-makers. |

- Fear of ridicule: although ridicule has no longer killed for some time, it is nonetheless

often difficult to overcome.

- Manipulation: the media can be manipulated by lobbies or pressure groups for fl

sectorial purposes (for example, push politicians to create an anti-UFO SDI [Strategic

Defense Initiative]) and could thus become the unwitting spokesmen of a disinformation

campaign or a destabilization attempt. f]

14.2 What Attitudes do the Media Adopt? ;

- For the tabloids, anything is good if it sells. The public’s curiosity is great and its fi

demand generates enticing and often phony articles. Although they become the relayer of

: incredible theories, it is, on the other hand, thanks to the tabloids that the latest revelations |

concerning Roswell made by old witnesses have begun to become known.

- For the major newspapers, irony or aggressiveness are most often a manner of

broaching a taboo subject that no one has a handle on. But the press can also spread the |

news about an extraordinary phenomenon when, as in the case of San Carlos de Bariloche,

dozens of people were witnesses to it. It sometimes also makes a good presentation of the

UFO case. |

- For television and movies, the subject is in vogue because it can be dealt with as

fiction, and there nothing checks the imagination of the producers. The bizarre fashion

adopted by Channel +",a French television station] for its “Nuit des Extraterrestres fl

[Extraterrestrials Night]” does not prompt one to take this subject seriously. However,

tribute should be paid to several serious and well-documented broadcasts, like that of

"Arte" in March 1996. a

14.3 What Should Be Done? i

The future of our planet lies in space. Whether it be overpopulation, a spirit of

adventure, the search for other raw materials, a liking for conquest and colonization, or

other, more or less altruistic, motivations, everything is pushing toward humankind's Fl

expansion. Will we one day be the extraterrestrials for other planets? When our probes

orbit around more and more distant worlds and film them, what might hypothetical

inhabitants think of them? fl

We must prepare ourselves for this prospect, and the media can help educate the

masses.

A strengthened SEPRA could usefully dedicate its efforts to the training of journalists Ei

and could create a documentary site on the Internet.



(] 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 Gendarmerie

Nationale and the Air Force primarily, as well as with other State agencies (Civil Aviation,



() Weather Service, etc.). These studies tally with other research conducted more or less

discretely abroad, mainly in the United States.



They demonstrate the almost certain physical reality of completely unknown flying



f] objects with remarkable flight performances and noiselessness, apparently operated by

intelligent [beings]. With their maneuvers, these flying objects considerably impress

civilian and military pilots, who hesitate to speak [about them]. The fear of appearing :



fl ridiculous, alienated, or simply gullible is the principal reason for this reserve. Secret craft

definitely of earthly origin (drones, stealth aircraft, etc.) can only explain a minority of



(] cases. If we step back and take an objective look over the years, we clearly perceive the

limits of this explanation.



Thus we are forced to resort to other hypotheses. Some can neither be confirmed nor



(| invalidated. They are therefore not scientific, and, certainly, it is very difficult to

scientifically study rare, elusive, and random phenomena, when science is based above all

on experiments and their reproducibility. However, the example of meteorites shows that



i this type of phenomenon can nevertheless end up being accepted by the scientific

community after centuries of doubt and rejection.



A single hypothesis sufficiently takes into account the facts and, for the most part, only



A calls for present-day science. It is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitors. Advanced as

of 1947 by certain U.S. military personnel, today it is popular worldwide. It is discredited

by a certain elite, but is plausible. Scientists.(astronomers, physicists, engineers,



| futurologists, etc.) have elaborated on it enough for it to be receivable - as a hypothesis -

by their peers. Different plausible variants concerning the voyage of one or more

civilizations from a remote solar system to ours have been developed. A model of



| magnetohydrodynamic technology, which could be employed to propel the UFOs in the

atmosphere, has _.reached a significant stage of development. Other manifestations of these

objects have begun to receive a physical explanation (automobile breakdowns, truncated



{] beams [of light], etc.).



The purposes of these possible visitors remain unknown, but they must be the subject

of indispensable speculations and the development of prospective scenarios.



(i The extraterrestrial hypothesis isby far, the best scientific hypothesis. It certainly has

not been categorically proven, but strong presumptions exist in its favor and if it is correct,

it is loaded with significant consequences.



| Based on this prudent but solid assessment, we can make several recommendations:



1) Inform the political, military, and administrative decision-makers, as well as the

aircraft and helicopter pilots. A gradual information campaign could target:



M; - ENA [National Public Management College] and IHEDN,



- [Ministry of] Defense schools: Air, Navale, Saint-Cyr, Gendarmerie, (officers

and NCO gendarmes), Santé des Armées [Military Health College],



| Polytechnique [Polytechnical College], ENSTA [National College of Advanced



Technologies], ENSAE [National College of Aeronautics and Space), CID;



i CHEAR [Center for Advanced s Armaments Studies], CHEM [Center for



Advanced Mil!:ary Studies], etc.,

- civilian schools and their alumni: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Police (i

[National Police College], Ecole des Officiers de Police [Police Officers

Academy], journalism schools, Ecole Nationale de I’ Aviation Civile. At the

latter school, numerous conferences have allowed air [traffic] controllers to be |

taught the proper reactions in the event an aircraft encounters a UFO,

- agencies that support or conduct research for military purposes: DGA,

ONERA, CEA/DAM [Directorate of Military Applications], etc., |

- special civilian and military departments, as well as the Direction de la

Communication de la Défense [Defense Communications Directorate], DICOD

former central SIRPA [Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Bi

Department)), calling their attention to disinformation processes.

2) Boost SEPRA’s human and material resources so that it can:

- develop its investigation and analysis possibilities, i

- collect information relating to all UFO manifestations, both in Europe and .

throughout the world,

- maintain and develop databases on different aspects of these manifestations, {]

- reinforce its representation and foreign relations status.

3) Make the detection of UFOs an objective for civilian and military space surveillance

systems, which it is necessary to develop for other reasons (prevention of collisions fj

between satellites and space debris, etc.).

4) Create a unit at the highest State level to collaborate with SEPRA, that would be

tasked with: |

- formulating all prospective hypotheses,

- promoting scientific and technical efforts and, as such, have an annual budget

of a few million francs, fj

- Participating in the establishment of sectorial cooperation agreements with

other countries.

5) Initiate diplomatic demarches to the United States, with the support of other States |

and even the European Union, to urge the superpower to collaborate and, if necessary,

exert useful pressure to clarify this crucial issue that necessarily comes within the

framework of political and strategic alliances. if

6) As speculative as these possibilities are, reflect, at the level of public authorities and

with the aid of the unit mentioned in item 4), on the measures to take in the event of a :

spectacular and indisputable manifestation of a UFO: |

~ Overt attempt to make contact, ;

- landing before numerous witnesses,

- other substantial actions. .

These reflections would be carried out methodically, while maintaining, obviously, a

, minimum distance. B

Appendices

Appendix 1 - Radar Detection in France i

Radar detection in France is carried out by two radar station networks, the military

network equipped with both primary and secondary radars and the civilian network |

equipped almost entirely with secondary radars. Primary radar permits one to detect and

visualize on a screen (or Scope) the geographic position and the altitude (three- i



dimensional radar) of all moving objects via the reflection of radar waves off of the body

of the moving object.



id 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 signals

that it emits. Thus any moving object not equipped with a “transponder” will not be



(] detected by secondary radar. ,



This detail is extremely important in the case in question, because only the primary



i radars installed at military Control and Detection Centers (CDC) and radar detection

aircraft, the Air Force AWACS and soon the Navy Hawkeyes, may detect a UFO,

provided that the latter is not a “stealth” craft.



i Finally, it is necessary to know that all radar information detected by the totality of

radar stations in the territory, airborne warning aircraft, and the radar stations of

neighboring countries are being collected and processed in the STRIDA (Systeme de



| Traitement des Informations de Défense Aérienne [Air Defense Information Processing .



Center]) network, thus permitting detection coverage over a square more than 4500 km

per side.



| Appendix 2 - Astronomers’ Sightings

by Jean-Claude Ribes

astronomical object. But we can expect them to be extremely reticent to relate such a



. sighting out of fear of ridicule, because amateurs are generally desirous of “professional”

| recognition. At any rate, no specific investigation has been conducted, to my knowledge,

in this particular population.

The results of two independent studies conducted by professional astronomers with



| their colleagues are quite different: in the 50s, Hynek informally questioned some forty

astronomers, a little more than 10% of whom had actually sighted unexplained



I phenomena. Among the latter, Josef Allen Hynek cites Professor Lincoln La Paz, :

Director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde

Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, who died in 1997. In the 70s , Peter A.



| Sturrock sent a detailed questionnaire to 2611 members of the American Astronomical

Association, guaranteeing them anonymity. Half responded, and sixty sightings were

encountered.



a No systematic study of this type has been conducted in France, but a sighting by

Marseilles astronomers Georges Courtés and Maurice Viton is frequently cited. One of

my colleagues also related to me a sighting that he had made in his youth of an object with



fi an apparent diameter of the moon (which, moreover, was visible), moving slowly from

north to south. He was not yet a professional at the time but rather a well-informed

amateur, and he does not see any explanation for his sighting, which he has never



R mentioned publicly.



Thus it appears that the percentage of sightings by astronomers is comparable to that



Hl noted in the overall population, although there is a definite reticence among a vast



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 f

study of the phenomenon without any preconceived ideas. The private conversations that

I have had with French colleagues confirm Sturrock’s conclusion: many would refuse to A

broach the question with a journalist, but when I speak with them about a serious scientific

study, they state that they are in agreement.

Appendix 3 - Life in the Universe i

The question of extraterrestrial life left the domain of belief barely a few decades ago

and entered the domain of scientific research, and the advances in this domain have been |

very rapid for several years. Beyond earth, the solar system proves to be currently -

unsuited to life, but the “Viking” probes have shown that some three-and-a-half billion

years ago, the planet Mars must have offered much more favorable conditions than at |

present, namely with the existence of liquid water. Thus it is not ruled out that an

elementary life form (bacteria) could have existed there, as was then the case on earth.

The study of fossils is, besides, one of the reasons for future Martian expeditions, i

automated first, then with humans aboard. The discovery of fossils in a meteorite :

originally from Mars, as announced by NASA, is still the subject of a debate in the

scientific community. But the very existence of this debate increases the interest in going fl

to take a look on site.

_ Outside the solar system, astronomers have long thought that, very generally, the stars

should be surrounded by planetary systems, but it has only been in very recent years that |

experience has confirmed this theory: we now know of a half dozen stars each

accompanied by at least one planet. Biologists, for their part, are making rapid advances

in understanding the chemical mechanisms that give rise to life, and this appears more and |

more to be a necessity rather than a coincidence.

Twenty years’ experience has shown, from Siberia to the ocean depths, that life adapts

itself to sharp variations in temperature or to extreme temperatures where it was |

previously considered to be impossible. ;

For 35 years, radioastronomers have carried out different programs searching for an |

intelligent radio signal coming from space (SETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence).

No signals have been detected yet, which is not surprising given the immensity of the

spatial and frequency domain to be explored. A major NASA program, which was

canceled by the U.S. Congress, was revived using private funds and should improve the i

sensitivity of the search by several orders of magnitude. The French tadiotelescope at

Nangay, where several SETI studies have already taken place, will perhaps be included in re

this program.

Appendix 4 - Colonization of Space |

The second half of the 20th century will have been the half century of the exploration of

the solar system: man on the moon, probes placed on Mars and Venus, others in the

immediate vicinity of the other planets (except Pluto), comets, and asteroids. The 21st i

century might be the century of the colonization of our system, with permanent human

settlements and preparation for voyages to other planetary systems.

The coming years will see the positioning of the permanent orbital station A/pha, the i

international follow-up to the Russian Mir program. Next, the Americans plan, in



principle, to establish a permanent base on the moon, a minimal station like the Antarctic



il 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, we cannot consider applying the current method on a large scale, where almost



| everything must be brought from earth via costly launches.



Ecosystems of this type were studied by the Russians first (the first experiment was in

1961) and by the Americans, namely with Biosphere 2, a greenhouse 1.3 ha in surface



| area, planned to maintain in closed circuit (with an outside power supply) a set of plants

and animals, including the presence of eight people. This experiment, which was carried

out initially using private funds, was unjustly criticized by the press and a portion of the



| scientific community. In fact, despite certain “amateur” sides, it has already contributed a

great deal: during an initial two-year experiment from 1991 to 1993, four men and four

women lived almost entirely self-sufficiently, demonstrating the validity of the principle.



| The recycling of water was total, while the recycling of air was imperfect (it was necessary

to add oxygen after fifteen months of total isolation), and the production of food slightly

inadequate (the inhabitants of the biosphere left thinner, having started in on the reserves).



| After another six-month experiment, the structure was taken over by the University of

Columbia, which seems interested especially in the ecological aspect, to the detriment of

the space application. However, it is a descendent of Biosphere 2 who could represent the



fl future autonomous moon base of the middle of the next century. A human settlement on

the moon is first of all a scientific necessity, namely for astronomers. It is also a

springboard into space. Almost all the materials necessary for the construction of stations



| and spaceships can be found on the moon, the exploitation of these resources will be

much more economical than on earth because the reduced gravity and the absence of

atmosphere on our satellite enable an easy and sure launch into orbit.



Fy Human expeditions will necessarily follow automated missions to Mars, if for no other

reason than to verify the past existence of traces of life. As for the development of

permanent Martian colonies, this can be envisioned, but one can also imagine skipping this



| step, by creating artificial planets. The idea was conceived by American physicist O’Neill,

who studied in detail cylindrical structures 30 km in length by 6 km in diameter, in rotation

to create an artificial gravity and able to shelter millions of people in an earth-type



| biosphere. :



These artificial planets could be constructed in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of

Mars and Jupiter, where we find an abundance of materials that are easy to exploit, which

| will be able to provide numerous chemical bodies, including oxygen and water.

In longer term, and when the industrial-scale manufacture, storage, and use of

antimatter is mastered, smaller models of these same craft will be able to leave the solar

fl system. They will be able to reach the vicinity of another star, after a voyage of several

centuries, during which generations will succeed one another in these “ship-worlds”

(unless we have mastered human hibernation by then).



i These migrations probably will not take place until after reconnaissance [missions]

conducted by automatic probes [have been completed]. The preferred destinations would

obviously be systems where a planet supposedly shelters evolved life.



| Imagine that a human expedition settles in the asteroid belt of a system where a

civilization exists that is quite probably at a lower stage of technical development than

ours (if the reverse is true, it is likely that the contact was already made via



| telecommunications, or else that the most advanced civilizations made the voyage before

us): for ethical reasons, but also in the interest of a serious scientific study, it could not



5 afford to intervene openly, at the risk of inducing a fatal culture shock. The study should



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 i

weapons to avoid the consequences of an untimely encounter (the paralyzing effect of

pulsed microwaves is under study in several countries).



When the civilization visited has reached the stage of space voyages, it will become |

necessary to make it aware of the existence of visitors. One way to do this, without

causing trauma, would be to commit “calculated indiscretions” that would accustom the

population, little by little, to the idea that there could indeed be extraplanetary visits. |

Appendix 5 - The Roswell Affair - Disinformation



1) Roswell: indisputable facts (|



Note: the parenthetical annotation (video) indicates that video testimonies are

available |



Summer 1947 - The Roswell (New Mexico) base houses the only nuclear-armed

bombers in the world. The bombers still have propellers.



June 24 - Sighting of nine UFOs by American Kenneth Arnold. The news is broadcast {|

throughout the world.



July 8 (morning), Roswell - The base provides the local radio stations with information :

that would circle the globe: a flying disk had crashed on a ranch and the military personnel fl

from the base recovered the debris (video).



July 8 (afternoon), Fort Worth (Texas) - General Ramey, Commander of the 8th Air

Force, who commands the base, announces to journalists that after examination of the |

debris, [it was determined that] they were from a weather balloon. He shows them some

of the debris, which the journalists photograph. The affair was buried for over thirty year.



1978 - Lieutenant Colonel Marcel (ER), an intelligence officer on the base in 1947 who fe

recovered the debris, declares on television that the debris was definitely of

extraterrestrial origin (video). The debris that General Ramey had shown the journalists

was not the debris that Marcel had brought him from Roswell. |



American ufologists conduct numerous investigations and collect affidavits (sworn and



notarized written statements) and filmed testimonies. Many witnesses state that in July

1947, military personnel had threatened them with death if they talked (video). According a

to some testimonies, at some distance from the field of debris, the Army had found the

frame of a sort of space glider and cadavers of small humanoids (video).

1991 -General du Bose [sic] (CR), who was General Ramey’s chief of staff in 1947, |

confirms by affidavit that the latter had substituted the debris from a weather balloon,

which he had shown the journalists, for the debris sent by the Roswell base.

Beginning of 1994 - U.S. Representative Schiff (New Mexico) asks the Department of fe

Defense (DoD) for explanations regarding the affair. Not obtaining any, he requests that

the General Accounting Office (GAO) conduct an inquiry into the manner in which the Air

Force, primarily, had handled the documents relating to the Roswell crash. bi

September 1994 - The Office of the Secretary of the Air Force publishes a report on

Roswell: the debris found on the ranch cannot be from an aircraft or a missile. They are

probably debris from a series of balloons from the secret Mogul project. To protect the ii

secret, General Ramey leads everyone to believe it is a weather balloon, the materials of

which (essentially the shell and radar reflector) are the same. The report shortens the

affidavits of certain witnesses so that the strange debris that they describe appears to be a

debris from a Mogul balloon. It does not mention the frame and attributes the “bona fide

testimonies” regarding humanoids to “foggy memory.” "



July 1995 - The GAO report mentions the new Air Force version, and states:

- page 1, “Zhe debate on what actually happened at Roswell continues.”

fl - page 2, “All of the base's administrative documents for the March 1945-December

1949 period were destroyed, and all radio messages sent by the base from October 1946

[i to February 1949 were destroyed. The destruction report does not mention when, by

whom, and on whose orders this destruction was carried out.”

The GAO inquiry provided him with practically no documents of interest concerning

| the Roswell incident, despite his requests to numerous organizations (CIA, FBI, DoD,

DoE, NSC, etc.).

Summer and fall of 1995 - A film of the autopsy of an alleged “humanoid cadaver _ in

i 1947 is aired by about thirty television stations around the world. Its authenticity is

questionable, but, above all, nothing in the film proves that the cadaver has even the

slightest connection with the Roswell incident. The hodgepodge is, however, made up in

f large part from written and televised press, thus making the Roswell affair look ridiculous.

The conclusions of the GAO and the videos of the principal witnesses presented by TF1 [a

French television channel] go unnoticed, lost in the middle of the film of the autopsy.

4 1996 - The film Independence Day and the [television] series X-Files make significant

references to Roswell.

fi 2) Opinions on Roswell

- Very consistent interviews, affidavits, and video testimonies describe the discovery of

material that no one knows how to make in our time: a thin sheet that looks like metal

i with very great resistance and that is so elastic that after it has been crumpled up into a

ball, it spontaneously returns to its initial shape without the least sign of a residual fold.

- It does seem that the crash occurred on July 4, Independence Day, at around 2330

| hours. The date and time symbolize American power, whence the following

question [arises]: if the crash was in fact that of an extraterrestrial vessel, was it

truly an accident or a was it a deliberate crash constituting a message and/or the

| authenticator?

3) Roswell and disinformation

| The disappearances of files and the Air Force’s clumsy attempts at explaining [the

incident] show that U.S. military personnel are hiding something important that occurred

at Roswell in July 1947, just as they concealed their experiments on the effects of

fj plutonium .on human beings The hypothesis of an extraterrestrial vessel that is supported

by quality testimonies cannot be dismissed.

To protect the secret, the two main types of disinformation, reducing and amplifying,

FI were used in the Roswell affair. One should note, however, that the dissemination of

information and contradictory analyses - by ufologists, for example - may be a spill-over

effect of this reducing disinformation is apparent in the Air Force report: testimonies on

I the debris have been cut down so as to give credence to the Mogul balloon hypothesis. It

is also found, more subtly, in Roswell in Perspective, a book by “ufologist” Karl Pflock, a

former CIA and DoD employee: affidavits mentioning the tear-proof and crease-resistant

| material are given in full in an appendix, but they are ignored or cited only in shortened

form in the text.

In France, sociologist Pierre Lagrange appears to be a victim of this simplified

| disinformation. After having endeavored to put the Air Force report and the publications

of Karl Pflock into perspective, he concluded:

\ “1 will] close with a bit of psychology. Why do many people not believe in the



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 heading of the technological imagination of the beginning of the



century, just like the detail regarding the ultralight and ultraresistant materials that were a

used in its construction.” (the journal Ovniprésence, February 1995).



This is, on the whole, the simplistic theory concerning UFOs stated by French .

“sociopsychologists.” It can be refuted as follows: at the beginning of the century, |

popular science fiction described light rays capable of killing or healing. Nonetheless,

military or medical lasers exist today.



Amplifying disinformation was manifested when the film on the autopsy of the “Roswell eI

creature” was aired. In expanding the Roswell affair with this spectacular, but

questionable, autopsy, some have succeeded in discrediting it and, especially, in covering ,

up the publication of the GAO report and the dissemination of video testimonies. It is i

tempting to believe in a well-orchestrated manipulation. -



4) Reducing disinformation on UFOs



The Air Force has practiced this from the onset, as has been revealed by the astronomer |

Hynek, who was an Air Force consultant from 1948 to 1966 and who described how he bes

aided in trivializing numerous cases by giving them unjustified astronomical

interpretations. fi



The disinformation policy was intensified as a result of the recommendations of a

“scientific” committee assembled by the CIA in December 1952, the Robertson

Committee, which suggested “stripping the UFO phenomenon of its aura of mystery.” |

The same committee recommended “monitoring” the ufological movements, which were

infiltrated, by the CIA mainly.



Several key figures have tried to nullify numerous important cases. Philip Klass, then i

editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology, took on, among others, three major ;

aeronautical cases: Lakenheath in 1956, RB-47 in 1957, Tehran in 1976, which are

described in Chapter 2. He is hardly convincing. In the Tehran case, for example, he |

correctly cites the testimonies at the beginning of his account, but doesn’t take certain

aspects into account when he discusses them.



Reducing disinformation is effective on those who do not want to accept the possibility fi

of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Amplifying disinformation is aimed at others.



5) Amplifying disinformation on UFOs : |

This policy was probably implemented very early on; Adamski’s alleged contacts with a

Venusian in 1952 no doubt fall into this category.

It has become considerably extensive since the resurgence of the Roswell affair at the |

end of the 70s. The point of departure is the Bennewicz case. This ufologist physicist

recorded pulsed microwaves from a testing ground at Kirtland (New Mexico) Air Force

base. He attributed them to UFOs exerting control over “abductees” (kidnapped humans) |

furnished with implants! Fearing, it seems, the publication of his recordings, the Air Force

Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and, namely, its special agent Doty from the

aforementioned air base, as well as, perhaps, other agencies, induced him to make fantastic i

“revelations”: there were numerous kidnappings, with the placement of implants to control

the “abductees.” Furthermore, technology transfers were supposedly carried out on bases

in New Mexico and Nevada jointly owned by the U.S. Army and extraterrestrials baptized i

EBEs, Extraterrestrial Biological Entities.

Bennewicz disclosed this information to American saucerists, many of them thus being &



U 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

i Nevada base is Groom Lake base, in “area 51” (Groom Lake does in fact exist; it is so

secret that the Air Force does not recognize its existence; nevertheless, it is mentioned in

the June 1996 issue of Jane's Defence Weekly). Later, a former Navy petty officer from

i the 2nd Marine Division, Bill Cooper, “revealed” that the Council for Foreign Relations

(CFR), which, according to him, governs the world through the Bilderberg [Group] and

the Trilateral [Commission], supposedly does so in close union with the EBEs...

(i Amplifying disinformation has probably permitted the protection of research on

microwave weapons at Kirtland and on new types of aircraft at Groom Lake. It has

fj certainly allowed the weapon of ridicule to be used against certain gullible ufologists.

Appendix 6 - The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon - Elements of a

| Chronology . .

The UFO phenomenon truly experienced worldwide dissemination as of pilot Kenneth

Arnold’s sighting on June 24, 1947, in the area of Mount Rainier in the northwest United

if States. In reality, air phenomena that are still unexplained today are much older.

Before going further, it is interesting to note that between May and July of this same

year, 850 different sightings were recorded across the United States and that in January

fl an RAF Mosquito night fighter tried in vain to intercept a very rapid object detected by

radars over the North Sea.

i In 1946, phantom rockets overfly Sweden

From February to December 1946, many witnesses sighted generally fusiform objects

(occasionally resembling spheres or disks) flying most often horizontally in Swedish skies,

| in some cases leaving a luminous trail, but also capable of very suddenly ascending or

descending.

Called “ghost rockets,” these apparitions (close to a thousand were detected)

f considerably worried Scandinavian, British, and U.S. military authorities, who conducted

investigations.

Although no debris was ever found (officially), it was long thought that it could have

Bi been a case of Soviet tests conducted with craft recovered in German factories. This

hypothesis has since been completely ruled out.

i During World War I, the “foo fighters”

From 1940 to 1945, numerous aviators sighted either swarms of red or green luminous

balls several dozen centimeters in diameter or groups of small metal-looking disks that

i] followed the aircraft or flew around them, giving the impression of intelligent behavior.

Most often not detected by the radars of the time, they did not seem “material” in nature.

In fact, some observers saw them touch the wings or the tail assemblies of the aircraft

jj without causing any visible damage to them.

First called “Kraut fireballs,” then “foo fighters” (probably in reference to a comic

strip), they were reported in all theaters of operation as of the start of the war. They

PI began to appear in number during the first major day bombings over Germany. They were

also observed from the ground and were the subject of numerous reports as of June 1944.

These sightings were the cause of much concern to the Allied authorities, who believed

2 them to be a secret German process in the beginning. It became clearly apparent at the

end of the war that it was nothing of the sort.



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. fl

The current explanation of electrical phenomena such as the Saint Elmo’s fires is not

convincing because it does not take into account the diverse characteristics observed. The

files relating to the “foo fighters” seem to have been subject to military secrecy at least [;

until 1949.

Many other sightings concerning much larger, cigar-shaped, disk-shaped, or sphere- fj

shaped objects were recorded in both camps.

From 1880 to 1900, “airships” over the United States and Great Britain

During these years, tens of thousands of witnesses sighted flying machines resembling f

modem dirigibles, which were not produced by factories until twenty years later. In most

cases, it was a matter of fairly voluminous, fusiform, vessels equipped with powerful

searchlights, often emitting engine sounds, and, in some cases, even seeming to have |

propellers.

In the United States, the majority of the sightings occurred between 1896 and 1897.

Other cases were reported, particularly in Spain, Germany, Sweden, and Russia. A i

second wave [of sightings] occurred at the turn of the century in Great Britain. nd

The explanation that comes immediately to mind is that of true dirigibles (and right fy

away we think of craft of German origin). However, it has a hard time holding up to a

thorough examination.

In actuality, in 1880, the technology of these craft was still in its infancy. It is true that [)

Colonel Giffard did conduct an initial test in 1852 with an elongated balloon equipped

with a very low-power steam engine. Then in 1885, Renard traveled several kilometers

for the first time, overflying Paris with a dirigible equipped with an internal combustion |

engine, but it was still extremely slow and not very easy to fly.

In fact, the first truly efficient aircraft were subsequent to 1910; however, even the

zeppelins built during World War I far from possessed the characteristics observed by the fi

witnesses to these phenomena.

From Greco-Latin antiquity to the beginning of the industrial age Rt

Human beings in all ages have sighted phenomena in the sky that they considered,

rightly or wrongly, to be abnormal. It is true that our epoch naturally has a tendency to

doubt the accuracy of ancient testimonies, and especially so the further back into the past |

we go.

During the first three quarters of the 19th century, chroniclers related several dozen

sightings of spheres and luminous wheels resembling present-day UFOs. The 18th century fi

was marked by one strange case. Goethe recounts, in fact, that in his youth, in 1768,

during a trip between Frankfort and Leipzig, he and two other witnesses saw a type of

large luminous tube positioned on the ground, surrounded by a multitude of small, very i

bright, moving flames.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, authors mentioned numerous sightings, not only in

Europe but also in America and Japan. Among these, a few hold our attention due to their |

spectacular appearance and the multitude of witnesses. In the skies of Nuremberg, in

April 1561, a large number of brightly colored spheres, disks, and “cigars” seemed to

wage a sort of battle that left a profound mark on the population and caused the i

ig great concern. A spectacle of the same kind took place in August 1566 in

Basel.



l 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



ij monastery at Detchani, built in Yugoslavia between 1327 and 1335, is decorated with

frescoes that represent angels enclosed in sorts of vessels flying in the sky.



(Even further back in time), during the reign of Charlemagne, it is reported that



4 Agobard, Bishop of Lyons, succeeded in saving from the stake three men and one woman

who had descended from an airship, claiming to be returning to earth after having been

kidnapped by celestial beings who allegedly showed them wonders.



if Elsewhere, luminous celestial phenomena similar to modern UFOs seem to have been

relatively frequent in China and Japan, particularly in the Middle Ages.



i Several other Latins, Dion Cassius, Pliny the Elder, Titus Livy, Julius Obsequens, and

even Cicero relate the appearance of lights in the sky, glowing shields, multiple moons and

suns, [and] golden flying spheres.



(| As for the testimonies reported by the Greek chroniclers, these are fewer in number. -

Daimachos recounts that a globe of fire crossed the sky several times during the 78th

Olympiad. Anaxagoras asserts that he saw celestial lights the size of a large beam.



a Appearances of beams and shields of fire are described several times, by Homer among

others.



ij Appendix 7 - Reflections on Various Psychological, Sociological, and Political

Aspects of the UFO Phenomenon



Note: these reflections apply primarily to the United States; many of them, however,

| can be transposed to other countries

A large number of Americans are convinced of the physical reality of UFOs, of their

| extraterrestrial origin, and of the fact that the U.S. government is systematically covering

up the truth with lies and disinformation.

Most of the recent American works that have been published on the subject end with



8 this conclusion, and almost all of them close with a demand for a partial or full lifting of

the alleged secrecy. The media frenzy surrounding the Roswell affair (cf. Appendix 5),

which experienced a resurgence at the end of the 70s after a more than thirty-year



| blackout, and which has not ceased to go from new development to new development for

15 years, is a typical illustration of this line of thought. By admitting that the

extraterrestrial hypothesis is the good one, the secret, say some, would be kept out of



| fear of panic reactions, which, they assure, would not fail to occur, as demonstrated by the

unfortunate experience of the radio program “The War of the Worlds” broadcast by

Orson Welles in the United States in 1938 (only nine years prior to Roswell). This



(1 explanation should not necessarily be rejected; however, it does seem a bit narrow. In

fact, the roots of the matter probably go deeper, and the sociopsychological motivations



id seem to be more complex.



7.1 The UFO Paradox



ij While a majority of Americans seem to support the idea of the existence of intelligent

extraterrestrial [beings], a very strong resistance remains in scientific circles, among

leaders, and in most of the media to the idea that these entities, whatever they may be,



4 have been able to or continue to visit our planet and travel our solar system.



The idea is ridiculed by much of the media. At the same time, in this spirit, most



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) fl

Given an official attitude of contempt, and in view of the fear of being likened to the

activists from “saucerist” sects and the “lunatic fringe,” the vast majority of scientists, |

even though they may be interested, quite obviously hesitate to tackle such a heretical

problem and naturally do not wish to call their reputation, career, and the funding of their

research into question (cf. Appendix 2, “Astronomers” Sightings”). This being the case, f]

there appear, upon analysis, to be other, deeper reasons.

- A general school of thought has existed for close to two centuries that tends to dismiss

the idea that terrestrial phenomena could be influenced from the outside. il

At the start, this was a positive, rational, and creative reaction to ancient beliefs. ‘

Compared with ancient times, modern science has, in fact, advanced by eliminating the

gods. It would seem counterproductive and incongruous to bring them back in other i

forms. :

The idea prevails in almost all minds that man is master of the earth and, by extension,

of the immediate cosmic vicinity, that he is the best nature can produce in this small corner |

of the galaxy, and that he alone remains the controller of his destiny. Various American

philosophers have termed this concept “anthropocentric humanism.”

To admit that intelligent [beings], which are not only outside [our planet] but are also R

superior due to their scientific and technological knowledge, could have interfered or

might continue to interfere in our affairs, in our domain, or in proximity to it, is considered

by many to be frightening and unacceptable, because admitting it would cause the collapse fi

; of the framework of comfortable thoughts of anthropocentric humanism.

Moreover, in some disciplines such as physics, the risk run is to find oneself confronted

with a science that is more advanced by several centuries, milleniums, or even more. |

Our own concepts could literally appear infantile, which would completely demobilize

the researchers who employ them.

It is clear that under the hypothesis that the existence of UFOs of extraterrestrial origin l

is proven, there is a risk that not only the position of the intellectual authorities but, quite

simply, the social position of the scientific elite would be considerably compromised. This i

is, furthermore, what happened each time that groups or nations found themselves in

contact with a more developed human civilization, with the notable exception of Japan in ;

the Meiji period, which it would be advisable to look into. f]

One can understand that advancing knowledge of the UFO phenomenon, at the risk of

succeeding, would not necessarily be a thrilling prospect for a number of scientists, who

thus might not really want to lend a hand in this effort. A

7.2.2 On the Part of Politicians :

7.2.2.1 With a few rare exceptions (President Jimmy Carter, Senator Barry M. |

Goldwater), the majority of politicians have almost always displayed a very skeptical and

most often ironic attitude regarding the question. However, some have had a more

positive attitude. |

The best known allusions to the possible existence of extraterrestrials and to the



l dangers that they might represent come from General MacArthur and President Ronald

Reagan. ;



i 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:



i “You now face a new world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space... marks a

beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind... We deal now, not with things

of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of



tl the universe... of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister force of

some other planetary galaxy.”



i [French translation of the quote from General MacArthur’s address]



General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, for his part, revealed during a private discussion

at the 1985 summit conference that President Reagan had told him that if earth had to



, | confront an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would

join forces to repel that invasion.



In addition, at the end of a speech before the 42nd General Assembly of the United



rn Nations on September 21, 1987, President Reagan affirmed:



“In our obsession with the antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much

unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to



(| make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences

worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”



[French translation of the quote from President Reagan’s speech]



| 7.2.2.2 However, for political leaders, just as for scientists, to be officially interested in ’

UFOs and extraterrestrials is firstly to risk ridicule before commentators and the media,



| who regularly use omission, destructive irony, and even lies.



7.2.2.3 But other elements should be taken into consideration. Although a significant

fl number of U.S. citizens seem to accept the existence of UFOs of extraterrestrial origin,

some political leaders might hesitate to call for resources to research this subject, because

they might fear they would then be accused of incurring expenses for one of the most

| hazardous of subjects.

7.2.2.3.1 Under these circumstances, if we advance the hypothesis that political



a leaders at the highest level in the United States possess unambiguous information

attesting to that existence, their situation would be particularly uncomfortable. The armed

forces have officially reiterated for fifty years that this phenomenon does not threaten the



fl security of the country, which does not mean that the phenomenon does not exist.



However, there have been disturbing sightings such as visits above secret installations

and missile bases, intense electromagnetic effects, military aircraft shadowed (as in the



i RB-47 case) or the object of mock interceptions. In reality, faced with the impossibility of

countering this type of threat, the authorities may have thus far been tempted to affirm

that it does not exist.



iy In the absence of a direct threat, and even though there never truly was any attack in

the past, the potential threat itself can appear overwhelming in the eyes of the authorities

(and especially the military).



“They” come from the stars, “their” craft watch us and seem to taunt us, “they” have

perhaps been on earth for thousands of years, and we don’t know “their” intentions.



d “Their” science and “their” technology, thus “their” power, are incomparably superior to



ours.

Without being completely disarmed, and even taking into account the enormous f}

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 and funds to conduct the |

necessary research is hard to visualize Officially for the only superpower in the world.

7.2.2.3.2 This is all the more true since, under the additional hypothesis that the a

U.S. armed forces actually already possess formal proof of this threat, for example, in the

form of extraterrestrial ships that have crashed on the ground, intensive research on

foreign technologies should have already commenced a long time ago under the cover of |

the highest level of secrecy.

As will be seen in 7.3.3, it would then be completely out of the question to divulge this .

type of information. |

Indeed, revealing a situation as novel as it is upsetting too quickly would perhaps be

running the risk of social upheavals, accompanied by panic, a demobilization of energies, a .

multiplication of millenialist sects, and a massive move of people to take refuge in al

religious fundamentalisms. EB

The loss of trust in the leaders in power could even lead rapidly to their ousting.

Given such a problem, their normal reactions would obviously be to gain as much time |

as possible by continuing their denials, all the while continuing work in secret and

fervently hoping that their successors will take on the responsibility when the reality zi

becomes manifest. |

7.3 U.S. Leaders and the Politics of Secrecy

7.3.1 The U.S. Army and UFOs i

The U.S. Army has been directly confronted with the phenomenon since World War Il. |

It seems to have been the only army to have officially broached the problem with

considerable resources.

7.3.2 The Spill-Over Effect of the Study of UFOs fy

The U.S. Army has, in actual fact, designed aircraft that exhibit the characteristics

described by the most reliable witnesses. The spill-overs are potentially considerable in fh

the areas of propulsion, materials and Structures, stealth technology, and weapons.

7.3.3 Finally, Why the Secrecy? i

We are currently not aware of the extent of the knowledge that U.S. military personnel

have gleaned from all of the studies that they have conducted on this subject either based |

on sightings or, as has sometimes been written, based on materials that have allegedly been

recovered.

Whatever the case, it is clear that the Pentagon has had, and probably still has, the i

greatest interest in concealing, as best as it can, all of this research, which may, over time,

lead the United States to hold a position of great supremacy over terrestrial adversaries,

while giving it a considerable response capacity against a possible threat coming from é

space.



U 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

(i beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation (both active as well as passive) would

still remain, under this hypothesis, an absolute necessity.

Thus it would appear natural that in the minds of U.S. military leaders, secrecy must be

i maintained as long as possible.

Only increasing pressure from public opinion, possibly supported by the results of

i independent researchers, by more or less calculated disclosures, or by a sudden rise in

UFO manifestations, might perhaps induce U.S. leaders and persons of authority to

change their stance.

{i It does not seem that we have arrived at that point yet.

Glossary

[| AFB Air Force Base

EMAA [French] Air Force Chief of Staff

AFOSI Air Force Office of Special Investigation

fl ENAC. [French] National Civil Aviation School

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

ESO European Southern Observatory

fi Airmiss Name of the investigation procedure covering the risks of air collisions

ETCA [French] Central Technical Armaments Institution

(] ALAT [French] Army Air Corps

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

Blue Book Name of the U.S. Air Force study of UFOs

| FUFOR Fund for UFO Research

CCD Charge-coupled device cameras

GAO General Accounting Office

i CCOA [French] Air Operations Center

GEPA [French] Aerospace Phenomena Study Group

CDC [French] Control and Detection Center

i GEPAN [French] Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group

CEA [French] Atomic Energy Commission

IHEDN [French] Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies

i, CEAT Toulouse Aeronautic Test Center

INRA [French] National Institute for Agronomic Research

CFR _ Council for Foreign Relations

i JANAP Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication

CHEAR [French] Center for Advanced Armament Studies

MEGASETI see SETI, which MEGASETI is an expansion of

fi CHEM [French] Center for Advanced Military Studies

MHD MagnetoHydroDynamics

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

i MOD [British] Ministry of Defence

CID [French] Interarmy Defense College

MUFON Mutual UFO Network

F | CIRVIS Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings

NASA. National Aeronautic and Space Administration



Hl

CNES [French] National Center for Space Studies

NORAD North American Air Defense fi

CNRS [French] National Center for Scientific Research (National Space Agency)

NSC _ National Security Council

CODA [French] Air Defense Operations Center fl

ONERA [French] National Aerospace Study and Research Office

CONDON Physicist at the University of Colorado who signed the UFO report ordered by

the U.S. Air Force il

RAF [British] Royal Air Force

CRNA [French] Regional Air Navigation Center

SEPRA [French] Atmospheric Reentry Phenomena Assessment Department i

CUFOS Center for UFO Research [sic]

SET Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence .

DGA [French] General Delegation for Armaments - fl

SIRPA [French] Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Department 5

DGAC [French] Civil Aviation Directorate

SPOC [French] Sky Observation Probe System ii

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency ~

STRIDA [French] Air Defense Information Processing Center

DICOD [French] Defense Communications Directorate a

UAP Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon

DoD Department of Defense fj

UAP D Category D Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon

DoE Department of Energy

UFO Unidentified Flying Object iF

EBE Extraterrestrial Biological Entity

VLT Very Large Telescope .

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 fl

many points of view (scientific, technical, aeronautical, strategic, political, religious,

media) by a French committee composed of former auditors of the very serious-minded

Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale [French Institute for Advanced National F

Defense Studies] and qualified experts from every background, COMETA [Committee for i

In-Depth Studies]. ii

For the first time, men, some of whom occupy very high positions, have agreed to write

a report devoted entirely to the UFO problem in the belief that based on the knowledge

that has been acquired to date, sufficient questions of national interest are raised for the l

Chief of State and the Prime Minister to be provided with this information.

In this report, COMETA studies several unexplained French and foreign UFO cases. i

Very well documented, these sightings are often supported by traces on the ground or

tracks confirmed by radar. Are these secret terrestrial craft? In some cases, perhaps. Are h,

we in the presence of craft of nonterrestrial origin? This hypothesis cannot be ruled out.

If it were to prove correct, it would be loaded with consequences for Defense. i



Bibl hi

li Parmi les nombreux livres et articles sur notre sujet, de valeur notoi- CHAPITRE 3

rement inégale, nous avons jugé particulitrement intéressant de citer

ff les suivants : Un cas de témoins multiples dans une base de missiles russe

* Dossier ovni du KGB publi¢ en 1991 — revue Aura Z, n° 1, Moscou,

CHAPITRE 2 mars 1993.

Le cas radar/visuel de Lakenheath (GB) (Cité dans Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document — op. cit. ;

i] * Edward U. Condon et Daniel S. Gilmor et, de fagon plus complete, dans Ounis en Russie — op. cit. — p. 319 sq.).

(Rapport Condon) — Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects —

Bantam Books, New York, janvier 1969. CHAPITRE 6

* James E. Mac Donald . ,

[j (UFOs au-dessus de Lakenheath en 1956) — Revue du Gepa Gepan, notes d'information et notes techniques :

(Groupement d’érude de phénomeénes aériens), mars 1974. (Traduction * Notes d'information :

d'un article de la Flying Saucer Review, mars-avtil 1970). N° 1, “Observations de phénoménes atmosphériques

iF * Gordon D. Thayler anormaux en URSS — Analyses statistiques”

(“UFO encounter II — Sample case selected by the UFO subcom- N° 2, “Les études de phénoménes a¢rospatiaux

mittee of the AIAA : The Lakenheath England radar/visual non identifiés aux USA”, 1" partie

UFO Case, August 13-14, 1956”) — Astronautics and Aeronautics, N° 3, “Les études de phénoménes aérospatiaux

[| septembre 1971. non identifiés aux USA”, 2° partie

* Philip J. Klass N° 4, “Les études de phénomeénes aérospatiaux i;

(“UFOs over England (Bentwaters and Lakenheath)”) - UFOs non identifiés aux USA”, 3 partie

explained — Random House, New York, décembre 1974 ; Vintage * Notes techniques :

Books, New York, septembre 1976. N° 1, “Analyse du probléme de pré-traitement des données”

* J. Allen Hynek N° 2, “Exude comparative des résultats statistiques élémentaires

Nouveau rapport sur les ounis — Belfond, J'ai lu, 1979 — p. 154 sq. relatifs aux observations de phénoménes aérospatiaux non

i (Traduction de The Hynek UFO report - Dell Publishing Co Inc., identifiés”

New York, 1979). N° 3, “Méthodologie d'un probléme : principe et applications

: (méthodologie, isocélie, information)”

Lavion RB-47 aux Etats-Unis N° 4, “Recherche statistique d'une typologie des descriptions de

f * Rapport Condon, op. cit. phénoménes a¢rospatiaux non identifiés” .

* James E. Mac Donald N° 5, compte rendu de l’enquéte du Gepan 79/03

(“UFO encounter I — Sample case selected by the UFO sub- N° 6G, enquéte Gepan 79/07 : “A propos d’une disparition”

committee of the AIAA : Air Force observations of an Unidentified N° 7, enquéte Gepan 79/05 : “A propos d’une rencontre”

Object in the South-Central U.S., July 17, 1957”) — Astronautics and N° 8, enquéte Gepan 79/06

Aeronautics, juillet 1971. N° 9, “La magnétohydrodynamique, l'état de l'art et la premidre

* Philip J. Klass expérience probatoire”

A (“The famous RB-47 case”) - UFOs explained - op. cit. N° 10, “Les phénoménes a¢rospatiaux non identifiés et la

* Brad Sparks psychologie de la perception”

RB-47 electronic intelligence case calibrated scientific proof of UFO — N° 11, enquéte Gepan 81/02

confidential copyrighted material, 1997. N° 12, enquétes Gepan 81/07 et 81/09

i N° 13, “Recherche statistique d'une typologie identifiée, non

Téhéran identifiée”

* Philip J. Klass N° 14, mini-enquétes en 1981 et 1982

(“UFOs over Iran”) — UFOs, The public deceived ~ Prometheous N° 15, “Recherche de stéréotype : dessine-moi un ovni”

fi Books, New York, 1977. N? 16, “Analyse d'une trace (cas de Trans-en-Provence)”

¢ Lawrence Fawcett et Barry J. Greenwood N° 17, “L’Amarante” :

Clear Intent, the government coverup of the UFO experience — Prentice N®° 18, “Systéme d’acquisition et d’analyse : le point sur l'utili-

f Hall Inc., NJ. 1984 = p. 81 sq. sation des réseaux de diffraction”,

Sit * Jean-Claude Bourret et Jean-Jacques Vélasco

USSIE is, ience avance — Rol 7 i

¢ “UFOs on oy steer aye tan sivas 19 ae e pada Weinstein Peas Lato, 15

(Traduction anglaise par le U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service encontres dans le ciel — rapport

i (FBIS), cté par Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith et Antonio Hunneus eet son pport pour le MUFON (Mutual UFO

dans Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document — publication pri- Rapport Condon — op. cit

vée, décembre 1995). ix R: “Le lis .

* Compte rendu plus détaillé de l'article de Rabochaya Tribuna pecan ee: set in ie lial ii i

par Boris Chourinov dans Ovnis en Russie — Guy Tredaniel, 1995

p- 230 sq.

ih -87-



Cuapirre 7 Cuarrrre 13 ('

Propulsion MHD (1) La Bible, livre d’Ezéchiel, 1 4-14 et 15-28.

* Jean-Pierre Petit (2) Abed Azrié, Lpopée de Gilgamesh — Ed. Ber International (Paris),

Le mur du stience - Belin, 1983, 1979 —p. 143: fi

* “Recherches pour un avion du futur” — Techniques avancees (pla- _“(...) Lorsque les grands dieux créerent les hommes, cest la mort quils leur

quette de I'Ecole nationale supérieure des techniques avancées), 1988. — destinerent et ils ont gardé pour eux la vie éternelle (...)” (Commentaires :

* Jean-Claude Ribes et Guy Monnet in Jean Bottéro, Babylone et la Bible — Ed. Les Belles Lettres (Paris),

La vie extraterrestre — Larousse (coll. Essentiels), 1990 (épuisé). 1994). i

+ J.-C. Bourret et J.-J. Vélasco (3) La Bible, livre de la Genése, V1 1-4 :

(Historique des recherches sur la propulsion MHD des naviresetdes  “Lorsque les hommes eurent commencé a se multiplier sur la face de la

aéronefs) — Ounis, la science avance — op. cit. ~ p- 171 sq. terre, et que des filles leur furent nées (...), les fils de Dieu virent que [

* Mike Ross des filles des hommes étaient belles, et ils en prirent pour femmes parmi

“Rider on the shock wave” — New Scientist, 17 février 1996. soutes celles qu'ils choisirent. (...) Alors l'Eternel dit : « Mon Esprit ne ¢

restera pas toujours dans l'homme, car l'homme n'est que chair, et ses

4 Propulsion par antigravité Jours seront de cent vingt ans. » (...) Les géants étaient sur la terre en fi

* Nick Cook ces temps-la. Il en fur de méme aprés que les fils de Dieu furent venus

“Turning science fiction into fact” — Jane’ Defence Weekly, 10 juin avec les filles des hommes et qu’elles leur eurent donné des enfants ; ce =

1996. sont ces héros qui furent fameux dans | ‘antiquité.”

(Cf. également : livre de la Genése, XIV 5, Nombres, XIII 32-33, (]

Propulsion dans |’espace Deutéronome, II 10-11). =a

+ Eugene Mallowe et Gregory Matloff (4) La Bible : Ecrits intertestamentaires — Gallimard, la Pléiade (Paris),

Starflight Handbook - John Wiley & sons, 1989. 1987: gl

* Robert L. Forward et Joel Davis Livre des secrets d’Hénoch :

Mirror Matter — John Wiley & sons, 1988. VI 1-2: “Wl arriva que lorsque les humains se furent multipliés, il leur

° W. B. Scott (Edwards Air Force Base) naquit des filles fraiches et jolies. Les anges, fils du ciel, les regardérent et

“USAF Predicts Antimatter Propellants could be in use by early kes désirerent. i

21” century” — Aviation Week and Space Technology, 21 mars 1988. Ik se dirent l'un a Uautre : « Allons nous choisir des femmes parmi les

humains et engendrons-nous des enfants. (...)»”

Pannes de voiture VI 6 : “Ibs étaient en tout deux cents. (...)”

+ James Mc Campbell VII 1-2: “(..) ik leur enseignerent les drogues, les charmes, la botanique |

“Self starting engines” - MUFON proceedings, 1983. et ils leur montrérent les herbes. Les femmes congurent et engendrérent

(Article résumé dans Ovnis, la science avance — op. cit.— p. 181 sq). des géants (...)” ?

VIII 1-3 : ‘Azaél apprit aux hommes a fabriquer des épées, des armes, |

Paralysie de témoins des boucliers, des cuirasses, choses enseignées par les anges. Il leur montra

* Keith Florig les métaux et la maniere de les travailler, ainsi que les bracelets, les parures, \

“The future battlefield, a blast of gigawatts” — JEE spectrum, mars 1988. — lantimoine, le fard des paupitres, toutes sortes de pierres précicuses et les i

+ J.-C. Bourret et J.-J. Vélasco teintures. Il en résulta une grande impitté. Les hommes se débaucherent, e

Ovnis, la science avance — op. cit. — p. 185 sq. ségarérent et se perdirent dans toutes les voies.”

X10: °C...) leurs peres nobriendront rien de ce quiils ont demandé pour j

CHAPITRE 8 eux-mémes et pour eux, alors quils espéraient pour eux-mémes une vie

érernelle et pour chacun de leurs fils cing cents années de vie.”

* Rapport Condon — op. cit. (CE. également le livre des Jubilés : V 1-5 : méme récit).

* Lawrence Fawcett ct Barry Greenwood (5) G. Pauthier, Les Livres sacrés de l'Orient (p.c. Le Chou-King ou 4

Clear Intent — op. cit. le Livre Sacré, Part. III], Ch. X-2) — Ed. Au Bureau du Panthéon

¢ Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, Antonio Hunneus Littéraire (Paris), 1852.

Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document — publication privée, (6) Arnold Toynbee, La civilisarion a | ‘preuve, Gallimard (Paris) 1951

décembre 1995, — p. 89.

* Col. Philip J. Corso (ret) (7) cf. les Immortels, Dieux, fils et filles des Dieux, Héros, Titans et "

The day after Roswell - Pocket Books, 1997. Géants chez Hésiode, Homére, Virgile, Pline, Hérodote, Plutarque,

° Headquarters United States Air Force etc., également les représentations divines et colossales de Memnon, |

The Roswell report, case closed ~ 1997. de Karnak, d’Hermonthis, d’Abou-Simbel et le Sphinx de Ghizeh,

° Nick Pope les colosses de I’ile de Paques, les géants de Bamyan en Afghanistan,

Open Skies, Closed Minds — Pocket Books, 1997. ceux de Ninive et de Khorsabad ; les Hrimthursars des Eddas scan-

¢ Timothy Good dinaves, le géant Skrymer combattu par Thor, etc. |

Above top secret ~ Harper Collins, Londres, 1993. (8) Peter Lawrence, Le culte du cargo —Fayard (Paris), 1974. (Le pre- Wl

(Publié initialement chez Sidgwick et Jackson Ltd, 1987). mier débarquement de marchandises d'un avion-cargo frappa forte-

¢ V. Migouline ment l'esprit des Papous, au point qu’ils instaurérent le “culte du

“Les phénoménes aérospariaux non identifiés a l'étude en URSS” — _¢2tg0", dispensateur de richesses, bien qu'ils se soient, par la suite, i

La Recherche, juillet 1979, accoutumés aux produits occidentaux et aux vols des avions).

(9) Arnold Toynbee — op. cit — p. 88 : Al-Gabrati.

-88- "



(10) G. Pauthier — op. cit “Manava-Dharma-Sastra ou Lois de Manou, ANNEXE 5

comprenant les institutions religieuses et civiles des Indiens”, p. 331

ets.: “Le nom de Manou rapproché (...) de ceux de Ménds et de Minos, Roswell

appartient & chacun des sept personages divins qui, suivant les idées des © William Moore i

Indiens, ont successivement gouverné le monde.” The Roswell incident — G.P. Putman & sons, USA, 1980.

(11) “Mais qui a découvert I'Antarctique ?” — La Recherche, n° 161, (En francais : Le mystire de Roswell - France Empire, 1981).

décembre 1984. ° Kevin D. Randle

o (cf. aussi Charles Hapgood — Les cartes des anciens rois des mers—Ed. 1) UFO crash at Roswell - Avon Books, USA, 1991 (en coll. avec

| du Rocher (Monaco), 1981 — p. 85 et s. Donald R. Schmitt).

i (12) Le Bible : Ecris intertestamentaires ~ op. cit 2) The Truth about the UFO crash at Roswell Evans, USA, 1994.

Livre des secrets d’Hénoch : 3) Roswell UFO crash update — Global Comm., USA, 1995.

X 2: “Ondonne-lui en Mon nom de se cacher et annonce-lui que la fin © Karl Pflock

est proche : toute la terre va périr, un déluge va arriver sur toute la terre Roswell in perspective— Fund for UFO Research Inc, Washington DC,

| et détruire tout ce quelle porte.” 1994.

X7 : “La terre que les anges ont souillée sera assainie. Annonce la gué-  (Peu objectif, mais intéressant par les affidavits en annexe).

rison de la terre : on guérina sa plaie, et tous les humains ne périront pas * Richard L. Weaver, Col. de I"USAF

i 2 cause de tous le mystore meurtrier que les Veilleurs ont enseigné 2 leurs Report on Air Force Research regarding the “Roswell Incident” —

- file” juillet 1994.

ao XII6: °C...) ils pleureront la perte de leurs fils, ils supplieront ¢ernelle- _* United States General Accounting Office.

ment, mais il n'y aura pour eux ni piti¢ ni paix.” “Report to the Honorable Steven H. Schiff, House of Representatives.

i Livre des Jubilés : Government Records : « Results of a Search for Records Concerning

V 6-11: “La punition des anges et des géants (..)” the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico »,” — juillet 1995.

VII 20-25 : “(...) lorsque les Veilleurs s¢carterent de Vordonnance quiles ¢ Chaine de télévision anglaise Channel Four

riginait pour forniquer avec les filles des hommes, se prirent des femmes — Enregistrements vidéo de témoignages sur le crash de Roswell, la plu-

i parmi toutes celles quils avaient choisies, provoqutrent le début de 'im- part provenant du Fund for UFO Research (“Roswell Recollections,

purett, engendrorent des fils, les Nephilim qui ceaient tous differents et se part II”, 1992)

dévoraient les uns les autres (...)”

(i. (13) Graham Greene - Un Américain bien tranquille- Ed. Robert Désinformation réductrice

Laffont (Paris) 1956. * Karl Pflock

Roswell in Perspective — op. cit.

ANNEXE 2 * Rapport Condon

fy Appendix U : Report of meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on

° Brad Steiger Unidentified Flying Objects (Robertson Panel) - 14-18 january 1953

“Un rapport du projet Grudge : entretiens du Pr Hynek avec des op. cit. — p.905 sq.

astronomes” — Ovnis : le projet Blue Book — Belfond, 1979. p. 178 sq. * Allen J. Hynek

fi * Allen J. Hynek Les objets volants non identifiés — Belfond, 1974.

Nouveau rapport sur les ovnis — op. cit. p. 27 sq. (Traduit de The UFO Experience, a scientific enquiry - 1972).

¢ Peter A. Sturrock

qj “Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Désinformation amplifiante

Society Concerning the UFO problem” — Rapport n° 681 — Institute * Milton William Cooper

for Plasma Research, Standford University, CA, janvier 1977. The Secret Government ; The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of M.J.12

- Fullerton, CA - The Author, 23 mai 1989, 25 p.

"| ANNEXE 3 Jerome Clark

(“UFO in the 80's”) — The UFO encyclopedia — Omnigraphics Inc.,

J.-C. Ribes et G. Monnet Detroit, 1990.

fA La vie extraterrestre — op. cit.

¢ Don Berliner; Marie Galbraith, Antonio Hunceus

A * O'Neill Unidentified Flying Objects briefing document - The best available

Les villes de Vexpace — Laffont, 1978. evidence - CUFOS, FUFOR, MUFON, 1995.

° André Lebeau ° Michel Bougard et alter

Lespace en heritage - Odile Jacob, 1986. Des soucoupes volantes aux ovnis — Editions SOBEPS, 1976.

i © Paine et al. (National Commision on Space)

Pioneering the Space Frontier — Bantam Books, 1986.

J.-C. Ribes et G. Monnet

La vie extraterrestre — op. cit.

a © Thierry Gaudin et al.

2100, récit du prochain sidcle — Payot, 1990.

° Jean-Claude Bourret et Jean-Jacques Vélasco

4 Ovnis, la science avance — op. cit.

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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, li

religious, media) by a French committee composed of former auditors of the very

serious-minded Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale [French Institute I

for Advanced National Defense Studies] and qualified experts from every



background, COMETA [Committee for In-Depth Studies]. fr



For the first time, men, some of whom occupy very high positions, have agreed to |

write a report devoted entirely to the UFO problem in the belief that based on the

knowledge that has been acquired to date, sufficient questions of national interest i

are raised for the Chief of State and the Prime Minister to be provided with this

information. fl

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cases. E



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zround or tracks confirmed by radar. Are these secret terrestrial craft? In some Ki

-ases, perhaps. Are we in the presence of craft of nonterrestrial origin? This

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occur underground, making photos extra-terrestrial origin’”’ and that, in fact, the and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?,” unexplained objects have been reported since

meaningless. Anyone looking for the fresh best explanation is “the extraterrestrial published in France by the magazine VSD. 1944. The rest “seem to be completely

information on UFOs would have better luck hypothesis."’ Although not categorically unknown flying machines with exceptional

trying a new, but less publicized source: by the _ proven, “strong presumptions exist in its favor THE MECHANICS OF A performances that are guided by a natural or

French military, just translated into English. and if it is correct, it is loaded with significant MYSTERY artificial intelligence,” they say. Science has

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generals from the French Institute of Higher The French group reached that conclusion “The number of sightings, which are another solar system and for technology which

Studies for National Defense, a government- after examining nearly 500 detailed completely unexplained despite the abundance _ could be used to propel the vehicles, the report

funded strategic planning agency -- recently international aeronautical sightings and and quality of data from them, is growing — says.

took a giant step in openly challenging radar/visual cases, and previously undisclosed throughout the world,”’ the team declared. The It assures readers that UFOs have

skepticism about UFOs. In a report based on a__ pilots’ reports. They drew on data from official authors note that about 5 percent of sightings demonstrated no hostile acts, “although

three year study, they concluded that, sources, government authorities, and the Air on which there is solid documentation cannot — intimidation maneuvers have been

“numerous manifestations observed by Forces of different countries. The findings are be easily attributed to earthly sources, such as__ confirmed.”

reliable witnesses could be the work of craftof contained in a 90-page report titled, “UFOs secret military exercises - especially since Given the widespread scepticism about

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ET hypothesis. But it is less easy to do so once Blancher and Jean-Jacques Velasco, head of a

the authors’ credentials are considered. The government agency studying UFOs, as well as

study’s originators are four-star General scientists and weapons engineers, were also

Bernard Norlain, former commander of the contributors. Not only does the group stand by

French Tactical Air Force and military _ its findings, it is urging international action.

counselor to the prime minister; General Denis The writers recommend that France

Letty, an air force fighter pilot; and Andre establish “sectorial cooperation agreements

Lebeau, former head of the National Center with interested European and foreign

for Space Studies (the French equivalent of countries” on the matter of UFOs. They

NASA in the United States.) suggest that the European Union undertake

They formed a 12-member “Committee for diplomatic action with the United States

In-depth Studies,” abbreviated as COMETA, “exerting useful pressure to clarify this crucial

which authored the report. Three-star Admiral issue which must fall within the scope of

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political and strategic alliances.” Why N Se AD — " BREAKING SILENCE: US Naval

might other nations be inclined to take Seas Bras - ast : <= Reserve Commander Willard H. Miller

this subject seriously? For one thing, mate ans ee Pe . worries that the military's lack of

declassified US government documents - Es 6 eae sik q Hews preparation for encounters with

show that unexplained objects with id a) 5" 7" +s St unexplained craft could provoke

extraordinary technical capabilities. pose C - eee fe 3: confrontation. Leslie General Norlain

challenges to military activity around the : -_ —~ : ae forcing the establishment to think

globe . = Br ead again about those lights in the sky.

For example, US fighter jets have been sais et Pictures courtesy of Bernard Thouanel

scrambled to pursue UFOs, according to *  3¥; x VSD photo archives.

North American Aerospace Defense ’ be a Fk

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documents. Iranian and Peruvian Air A Uh ae ,

Force planes attempted to shoot down Za 7 ~ee ’ THE DECADES OF

unexplained objects during —_air a : besa = a DISTRUST

encounters in 1976 and 1980, and se . a b0ccereccccoecccencececccccceeccececes

Belgian F-16’s equipped with >| 5 is to i Pa) In earlier decades, issues that remain

automatically guided missiles pursued i 4 = : pertinent today were openly discussed. In

UFO’s in 1990. Further, the French . = 1960, for example, US Representative

report says that there have been “visits git | Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa entered an “urgent

above secret installations and missile 4) warming” from RE.

bases”’ and “military aircraft shadowed” é ? Hillenkoetter, a former CIA Director and

in the US. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo A Navy vice admiral, into the Congressional

14 astronaut who was the sixth man to é Record that ‘certain dangers are linked with

walk on the moon, is one of many A unidentified flying objects.” Wolf cited Gen.

supporters of international cooperation L.M. Chassin, NATO coordinator of Allied

on UFOs. Of the French report, he says, Air Service, waming that “If we persist in

“It's significant that individuals of if 74 refusing to recognize the existence of the

some standing in the government, ff a = UFOs, we will end up, one fine day, by

military and intelligence community in iy { v mistaking them for the guided missiles of an

France came forth with this.” Mitchell, A eo eS enemy - and the worst will be upon us.”

who holds a doctor of science degree da ey %6¢ These concerns were taken seriously

from the prestigious Massachusetts ai bad enough to be incorporated into the 1971

Institute of Technology, is convinced “at r “Agreement on Measures to Reduce the

a confidence level above 90pc, that there > Outbreak of Nuclear War” between the US

is reality to all of this.” He adds, “People and the Soviet Union. The treaty states that

have been digging through the files and 4 the two countries will “notify each other

investigating for years now. The files are t immediately in the event of detection by

quite convincing. The only thing that’s ; + > missile warning systems of unidentified

lacking is the official stamp.” He joins ‘ ¥: objects...if such occurrences could create a

five-star Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, the - =? risk of outbreak of nuclear war between the

former head of the British Ministry of >? j two countries.”

Defense, in calling for US congressional The French report may open the door for

fact-finding hearings into the UFO ; nations to be more forthcoming once again.

question. Hearings would include 3 Chile, for example, is openly addressing it’s

testimony by government witnesses from 4 own concems about air safety and UFOs. The

the Air Force, Army, Navy, NASA, 4 now retired Chief of the Chilean Air Force

private industry and __ intelligence > | has formed a committee with civil aviation

operations with personal, first-hand f & & experts to study recent near collisions

knowledge of UFO phenomena and “i * , 4 between UFOs and civilian airliners.

related projects. ¥ Be . ee we As the international conversation about

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Anne enewecereneeeccecceseesssceeseseeene 75 . ce 7 . BS a decades. Perhaps

Despite the fact that Mitchell is a . So | the most notable

national hero and has been honoured with the government who share a growing interest in “Tf we persist in : a >} recent US sighting

Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN _ this subject,” Miller reports. 5 F5 ee oe | took place in

Distinguished Service Medal and the NASA Miller retired in 1994 from active duty ‘on refusing to recognize ‘¥ ve | March 1997.

Distinguished Service Medal, his request foran the Current Operations Staff (J3) of U.S. - Pt | Hundreds of

investigation has been ignored by U.S. Atlantic Command, Norfolk, Virginia where he the existence of the —— Se! people -across the

officials. worked operations, intelligence, and special [JF Os, we will end 2s Be | state of Arizona

Nonetheless, the public’s interest in UFOs is contingency issues. In a February, 2000 4 4 ay reported —_ seeing

undiminished. A ballot initiative underway in confidential memo prepared for this reporter, UP, ONE fine day, by 4 huge triangular

the US state of Missouri, and certified by the he spelled out the details of meetings with * ° objects, hovering

secretary of state in March, urges Congress to named officials - including the Director of the mistaking them for > silently in the night

convene hearings. The initiative states that “the Defense Intelligence Agency, an Admiral on 4 Poop sky - a sighting

Federal Government’s handling of the UFO the Joint Staff, and the U.S. Atlantic the guided missiles that, as the state’s

issue has contributed to the public cynicism Command's Director for Intelligence - between of an enemy — and Ve Senator John

toward, and general mistrust of, government.” —_ 1989 and 2000. : ¥ a McCain _ noted

US Naval Reserve Commander Willard H. Miller concurs with the COMETA’s the worst will be oo recently, has

Miller has been communicating this same observation that there is no evidence of « rs “never been fully

concern to high level officials for a number of _ hostility from UFOs “The only threat to the explained.”

years. With over 30 years in Navy and Joint national security of the United States is the under its jurisdiction disclosing reports As recently as

Interagency operations with the US Defense continued denial of undeniable physical UFO without authorization is subject to prosecution Jan. 5, 2000, four policemen at different locations in

Department, Miller has participated in a series occurrences and sightings to a public growing _ under the Espionage Act. St. Claire County, Illinois, witnessed a huge,

of previously undisclosed briefings for increasingly frustrated with its government's Even the President of the United States _ brightly lighted, triangular craft flying and hovering

Pentagon brass about military policy regarding weak explanations,” Miller says. recently had trouble accessing information on at 1000 feet. One officer reported witnessing

UFOs. Air Force Regulation 200-2, “Unidentified the subject. In 1995, philanthropist Laurence extreme rapid motion by the craft that cannot be

Like many, he says he worries that the Flying Objects Reporting,’ prohibits the Rockefeller provided UFO briefing materials explained in conventional terms. Nearby Scott Air

military's lack of preparation for encounters release to the public and the media any data to President Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Force base and the FAA purport to know nothing.

with unexplained craft could provoke a about “those objects which are not Presidential science advisor Jack Gibbons The French Institute of Higher Studies for

dangerous confrontation when, and if, such an explainable” while allowing disclosure only of | while they spent a weekend at Rockefellers’ National Defense and the National Center for

encounter occurs; “precipitous military the UFOs that have been identified as “familiar Wyoming ranch. Clinton then instructed Space Studies remain several steps ahead of the

decisions.” he warns, “may lead to _ objects.” Associate Attorney General at the Justice United States military and NASA. Perhaps the

unnecessary confusion, misapplication of An even more restrictive procedure is Department, Webster Hubbell, to investigate report by the bold French generals — with its goal

forces, or possible catastrophic outlined in the Joint Army Navy Air Force _ the existence of UFOs, as disclosed by Hubbell of “stripping the phenomenon of UFOs of its

consequences.” Publication 146, which provides in his book, Friends in High Places. Despite _ irrational layer” -- will be a catalyst for authorities

And he says he is not alone in his concerns. communications instructions for reporting this request from the Commander in Chief, around the world to publicly examine the issue of

“There are those in high places in the sightings relevant to US security. Anyone Hubbell was unable to obtain information on UFOs ina new light.

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Pilot encounters with UFOs

Study challenges secrecy (and denial)

LESLIE KEAN authorized release of a UFO report In 1997, the Chilean government

SAN FRANCISCO Son oat them 10 years in prison ora formed the Committee for the Study of

; ine. Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CE-

— a oo a To keep this information from the — FAA) following _ publicly oie

Siberian ai asin for 1¥% public, officials ridiculed and de- — edged observations of unidentified fly-

Hours whileca:} sae + untd i bunked legitimate sightings, angering ing objects at a remote Chilean air-

| fied flv he mainte unicentl- ‘some pilots. According to the Newark port. Both the French group and Gen.

led flying object | overed above its Star Ledger in 1958, more than 50 — Ricardo Bermudez Sanhuesa, presi-

runway. Although it's hard to imagine — commercial pilots who had reported — dent of the CEFAA, have made over-

such an event taking place in the in- sightings, each withat least 15 yearsof tures to the US. government for coop-

dustrialized United States, a compel- major airline experience, blasted the __ eration on this issue, with no response.

ling October 2000 study by a retired — censorship policy and denials as “bor- General Bermudez, and Air Force

aerospace scientist from NASA-Ames dering on the absolutely ridiculous.” Gen. Denis Letty, chairman of the

Research Center shows that similar in- These pilots said they were interro- French group, said in recent inter-

cidents have occurred in America — gated by the Air Force, sometimes all views that the Haines study has inter-

skies over the last 50 years. “Aviation night long, and then “treated like in- national significance and should be

Safety in America —A Previously Ne- — competents and told to keep quiet,” ac- taken seriously.

glected Factor” presents more than cording to one pilot. “The Air Force tells Brian E. Smith, current head of the

100 pilot and crew reports of encoun- you that the thing that paced your plane — Aviation Safety Program at NASA-

ters with unidentified aerial phenome- for 15 minutes was a mirage or a bolt of Ames, agrees. “There is objective evi-

na (UAP) that appear to have compro- —_jightening,” he told the Star-Ledger. dence in pilot reports of unexplained

mised aviation safety. “Nuts to that. Who needs it?” Asa result, events that may affect the safety of the

Author Richard F. Haines, formerly many pilots “forget” toreporttheirsight- aircraft, “ he says. “Yet getting people

NASA's chief of the Space Human jngsatall, one pilot said. to take an objective look at this subject

Factors Office and a Raytheon con- According to a 1952 Air Force Sta- is sometimes like pulling teeth.”

tract scientist, is chief scientist for the tus Report on UFOs for the Air Techni- Indeed, the Airline Pilots Association

National Aviation Reporting Center cal Intelligence Center, pilots were so our largest pilots union, and the Flight

on Anomalous Phenomena (NAR- humiliated that one told investigators, Safety Foundation, describing itself as

CAP), a research organization found- “If a space ship flew wing-tip to wing- “offering an objective view of aviation

ed last year. In stunning detail, pilots tip formation with me, I would not safety developments,” ignored NAR-

and crew describe a range of geomet- report it.” The vast majority of sight- CAP requests for a ‘response to the

ric forms and lights inconsistent with ings by American pilots are still not study. In phone interviews with this

known aircraft or natural phenomena. reported. The media perpetuate the reporter, representatives dismissed

Bizarre objects paced aircraft at rela- censorship and ridicule, handicapping the report out of hand after glancing at

tively near distances, sometimes dis- the collection of valuable data. the executive summaty.

abling cockpit instruments, interrupt- In contrast, other countries are However, such dismissals may soon

ing ground communications, or dis- openly investigating the impact of jose ground. Next Wednesday, John

tracting the crew. , UAP on aviation safety. A 1999 French Callahan, former division chief of the

The data include 56 near-misses. study by retired generals from the Accidents and Investigations Branch

Impulsive responses by pilotstoanap- French Institute of Higher Studies for of the FAA, will disclose FAA docu-

proaching high-speed object can be National Defense and a government — mentation and subsequent CIA sup-

hazardous; in a few cases, such vio- agency with the National Center for pression of the Terauchi encounter

lent evasive reactions injured passen- Space Studies examined hundreds of over Alaska. Callahan will bejoinedby

gers and flight attendants. However, well-documented pilot reports from more than 20 other government and

Haines states that there is no threat of around the world. The study could not military witnesses, and dozens more

a collision caused directly by UAP — explaina 1994 Air France viewing ofa on videotape at a National Press Club

“because of the re-ported high degree — UAP that instantaneously disappeared briefing to challenge official secrecy

of maneuverability shown by the as confirmed by radar and a 1995 — about this subject

UAP.” While flying over Lake Michi- Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 727 Retired United Airlines Capt. Neil

gan in 1981, TWA Capt. Phil Schultz encounter with a luminous object that paniels. whose DC-10 was forced into

saw a “large, round, silver metal ob- extinguished airport lights as the Jeft turn because of magnetic in-

ject” with dark portholes equally plane attempted to land. terference of cockpit compasses by a

spaced around the circumference that “Aeronautic personnel must be brilliant UAP, is among the many who

“descended into the atmosphere from sensitized and prepared to deal with want change. “The energies out there

above,” according to his hand-written the situation,” the report states. They are absolutely profound,” he says. “I

report. Schultz and his first officer must first “accept the possibility ofthe {think we need to know what they are.”

braced themselves for a mid-air colli- presence of extraterrestrial craft in .

sion; the object suddenly made a high- —_ our sky.” Then, “it is necessary to over- Leslie Kean is a journalist and au-

speed turn and departed. come the fear of ridicule.” thor in the San Francisco Bay area.

Veteran Japan Airlines 747 Capt.

Kenju Terauchi reported a spectacular ———— eee eee

prolonged encounter over Alaska in

1986. “Most unexpectedly, two space

ships stopped in front of our face,

shooting off lights,” he said. “The

inside cockpit shined brightly and | felt

warm in the face.” Despite the Federal

Aviation Administration’s determina-

tion that he and his crew were stable, 7 :

competent and professional, he was The Providence Journal

rounded for speaking out. ae gig oe

In 1997, a Swissair Boeing 747 over THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2001

Long Island just missed a glowing,

white, cylindrical object speeding to-

ward the plane. According to an FAA

Civil Aviation Security Office memo-

randum, pilot Philip Bobet said that “if

the object was any lower, it may have

hit the right wing.”

Ground-systems operators have

also been affected by UAP. “The ele-

ment of surprise means a decrease in

safety because it diverts the attention

of air-traffic controllers that should be

focused on landing planes. That is a

danger,” says Jim McClenahen, a

recently retired FAA air-traffic-control

| specialist and NARCAP technical

adviser. “Aviation Safety in America”

does not attempt to explain the origin

of these mysterious objects. But

Haines writes that hundreds of ;

reports, some dating back to the

1940s, “suggest that they [UAPs] are

associated with a very high degree of

intelligence, deliberate flight control,

and advanced energy management.”

In the 1950s, pilots and crews reported

seeing flying discs, cigar-shaped craft

with portholes, and gyrating lights, all

with extraordinary technical capabili-

ties. Documents show the unexplained

objects were considered a national se-

curity concern. By order of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff, commercial pilots were

required to report sightings and the un-



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SCIENCE & SOCIETY

UFO theorists gai m

eorists gain support abroad, but repression at home

Study by French officials, routine unexplained sightings, US military safety aspects combine to boost believers

BY DLESLIEKEAN the subject, as wellas scientists andweap- _ing this same concern to high level federal the French report chastises the United In earlier decades, issues that remain

—— ——__ onseengineers. officials. With over 30 years in Navy and States for what it calls an “impressive re- pertinent today were openly discussed. In

ast month’s release of the first Not only does the group stand by its _joint interagency operations with the De- _ pressive arsenal” on the subject, including —_ 1960, for example, US Representative

detailed satellite images of Area _ findings, it is urging international action. _ fense Department, Miller has participat-__a policy of disinformation and military Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa entered an “ur-

51, the top-secret US Air Force The writers recommend that France es- _ ed in a series of previously undisclosed regulations prohibiting public disclosure gent warning” from R. E. Hillenkoetter, a

test site in Nevada, prompted a _ tablish “sectorial cooperation agreements _ briefings for Pentagon brass about mili- of UFO sightings. former CIA director and Navy vice admi-

Web site meltdown as people with interested European and foreign _tary policy regarding UFOs. Air Force Regulation 200-2, “Uniden- ral, into the Congressional Record that

from across the nation logged oninsearch —_ countries” on the matter of UFOs. They Like many, Miller says he worries that __ tified Flying Objects Reporting,” for ex- “certain dangers are linked with unidenti-

of clues about unidentified flying objects. suggest that the European nul fied flying objects.” Wolf cited General

“The interest has been really phenom- —_ Union undertake diplomatic 1 a ae here reel a er L.M. Chassin, NATO coordinator of Al-

enal,” said David Mountain, marketingdi- action with the United PG oaee ye . Ma he te oe lied Air Sa, aes that “If we per-

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by the French military, just translated fied US government docu- & > ee Sn gt’ Pies for nations to be more forthcoming once

into an approved English edition. ments show that unex- A’ SA hel ‘ again. Chile, for example, is openly ad-

High-level officials - including retired plained objects with ex- + / Qt ie eae: 7 dressing its own concerns about air safety

generals from the French Institute of —_traordinary technical capa- | *{ ¢ Sar om . Bs A, a) : and UFOs. The now retired chief of the

Higher Studies for National Defense, a _ilities pose challenges to sya f gar 4 ayer : } Chilean Air Force has formed a commit-

government-financed strategic planning _ military activity around the & pA a OP if tee with civil aviation specialists to study

agency - recently took a giant step in —_ globe. For example, US "4 *¢ os PE Hee recent near-collisions of UFOs and civil-

openly challenging skepticism about _ fighter jets have attempted lige ‘ “ee 4 ian airliners.

UFOs. to pursue UFOs, according + Fr maig +) e ie! J As the international conversation

In a report based on a three-year —_ to North American Aero- POS te ; about UFOs unfolds, sightings continue,

study, they concluded that “numerous _—_ space Defense Command the neo Ti} { 4 as they have for decades. Perhaps the

manifestations observed by reliable wit- logs and Air Force docu- eae eet 02 Ot Pee Me most notable recent US sighting took

nesses could be the work of craft ofextra- ments. Iranian and Peruvi- F nes Mat)? Fy ; a place in March 1997. Hundreds of people

terrestrial origin” and that, in fact, the —_ an air force planes attempt- ie ay ip Vi 4 across Arizona reported seeing huge tri-

best explanation is “the extraterrestrial ed to shoot down unidenti- Fa pee re | angular objects, hovering silently in the

hypothesis.” Although not categorically _ fied craft in 1976 and 1980. FF Oe” Fh mes St # ‘* | night sky — a sighting that, as the state’s

proven, “strong presumptions exist in its Belgium F-16s armed with : - il ee oR US Senator John McCain noted recently,

favor and if it is correct, it is loaded with missiles pursued a UFO in fa IP ree : wy has “never been fully explained.”

significant consequences.” 1990. a Wee Fo As recently as Jan. 5, four policemen

The French group reached that con- Further, the French re- (Ri os * at different locations in St. Claire County,

clusion after examining nearly 500 inter- _ port says that there have kK; had a On Illinois, witnessed a huge, brightly light-

national aeronautical sightings and radar/ _ been “visits above secret in- COSTA RICAN PHOTO (ABOVEY; UP PHOTO, (BELOW LEFT; AP PHOTO (BOTTOMRIGAT. oq, triangular craft flying and hovering at

visual cases, and previously undisclosed  stallations and missile _ {mages of purported UFOs, taken by, above, a Costa Rican mapping aircraft In 1971 and reproduced on 1 000 feet. One officer reported witness-

pilots’ reports. They drew on data from of- bases” and “military air- the cover of a report by the French military; below left, a Zanesville, Ohlo, barber in 1966; below right, @ ing extreme rapid motion by the craft that

ficial sources, government authorities, craft shadowed” in the Unit- high school student in Beaver, Pa.; bottom right, teenage brothers in Detroit in 1967. cannot be explained in conventional

and the air forces of other countries. The —_ ed States. terms, Nearby Scott Air Force base and

findings are contained in a 90-page report Edgar Mitchell, the the Federal pele ‘Achalnlabration pak

titled “UFOs and Defense: What Should Apollo 14 astronaut who was tokn thin P

We Prepare For?” the sixth man to walk on the -_ soa ng D 8. ete

“The number of sightings, which are — moon, is one of many sup- aii ae : i oe — ae i

completely unexplained despite the abun- _ porters of international co- ; pepe pee oe ‘oat ed - iti ein

dance and quality of data from them, is operation on UFOs. Of the the existence of the triangular objects, In

growing throughout the world,” the team French report, he says, “It’s response to a suit by curious Arizonans, it

declared. significant that individuals - provided details of its search to US Dis-

The authors note that about 5 percent of some standing in the gov- trict Court Judge Stephen M. McNamee

of sightings on which there is solid docu- ernment, military, and intel- . of Phoenix. On March 30, McNamee con-

mentation cannot be easily attributed to ligence community in cluded that “a reasonable search was con-

earthly sources, such as secret military | France came forth with ; ducted” even though no information was

exercises. This 5 percentseem“tobecom- _ this.” _ j weg obtained, and he dismissed the case.

pletely unknown flying machines with ex- Mitchell, who holds a | tee as There is one government agency in the

ceptional performances that are guided doctorate from MIT in aero- w i Pee Ny ce, country that has taken steps to prepare

by anatural or artificial intelligence,” they nautics and astronautics, is Pan ¢ i iz ‘3 Mold . i for a UFO encounter. The Fire Officer’s

say. Science has developed plausible mod- convinced “at a confidence » ETRE e Bycp tt a ! “og ’ Guide to Disaster Control, second edition

els for travel from another solar system _level above 90 percent, that 12 bo Sate) tH ® ar / : - used by the Federal Emergency Man-

and for technology that could be used to _thereis reality to all of this. i b i % ” eae” agement Agency and taught at the seven

propel the vehicles, the report points out. He says, “People have been Bel eotes  , i : universities offering degrees in fire sci-

It assures readers that UFOs have digging through the files ee so . y ence warns of “URO kaikria® ich sé

demonstrated no hostile acts, “although and investigating for years P=" Tra { : electrical fields that cause blackouts, force

oe er aa ing. The only thing ee ari i 3 fields, and physiological effects.

firmed.” vincing. The only thing ee a, « Fae: me 2 “Do not stand under a UFO that is

Given the widespread skepticiam _ that’s lacking is the official So a Lig age ts : ef of ‘ hovering at low altitudes,” the book

about UFOs, many will quickly dismiss Stamp.” ERR Derren oso prs} warns. “Do not touch or attempt to touch a

the generals’ “extraterrestrial hypoth- ‘i ew Loge ome eee UFO that has landed,”

carats rs ae ped i sit a the former head of the British Ministry of __ the military's lack of preparation for en- _ample, prohibits the release to the public a ee ert aha “ —

atudy’s originators are four-star General Defense, in calling for congressional fact- counters with unexplained craf t could and the media of any data about “those ob- oy - Harvard University and a Pulitzer

Bernard Norlain, former commander of _ finding hearings into the UFO question. provoke dangerous confrontation when, jects which are not explainable. An even Prise winalag withor, stopped being

the French Tactical Air Force and mili- Although Congress seems disinclined —_ and if, such an encounter occurs; “precipi- more restrictive procedure is outlined in cantina shin lisse cn

tary counselor tothe prime minister;Gen- © pursue the matter, the public's interest tous military decisions,” he warns, “may the Joint Army Navy Air Force Publica- Ne eed as he beginaing ef

eral Denis Letty, an air force fighter pilot; in UFOs is undiminished. A ballot initia- lead to unnecessary confusion, misappli- tion 146, which threatens to prosecute tsa: cs catia cea iegwoe'® ta tha

and Andre Lebeau, former head of the _ tive underwayin Missouri, certified bythe _ cation of forces, or possible catastrophic anyone under its jurisdiction - including facet han chervekded ss ha afalcther

National Center for Space Studies, the secretary of state in March, urges Con- —_ consequences.” ; a pilots, civilian agencies, merchant marine - "= et ite ther ean: pucediven® he

French equivalent of NASA. gress to convene hearings. The initiative And he says he is not alone in his con- captains, and even some fishing vessels - ran “cro cia ok Ga Ker ae

They formed a 12-member “Commit- _ states that “the Federal Government’s cerns. “There are those in high places in for disclosing reports of sightings rel- Reseed a ‘aes “Thatieat:

tee for In-depth Studies,” abbreviated as handling of the UFO issue has contribut- _ the government who share a growing in- _ evant to US security. o! clence 0 weeks ago.

COMETA, which authored the report. ed to the public cynicism toward, and gen- _ terest in this subject,” Miller reports. a ror! Setar mid barked rogance.



‘ i three mistrust of, government.” tee obtain some information oOo

eee beets aren police; po i Naval leave Commander Wil- If the US military is concerned about — Freedom of Information Act,many UFO Leslie Kean is af freelance journalist in the

the head of agovernment agency studying _lard H. Miller has long been communicat- _ UFOs, it is not saying so publicly. Indeed, — documents remain classified. San Francisco Bay area.



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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 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

(UAP).

NARCAP investigates aviation related reports of aerial encounters with lights or objects

that seem inconsistent with known categories of aircraft and common natural phenomena.

These lights or objects are reported to appear in a variety of colors and shapes. Pilots, air

traffic controllers and radar operators report that these lights or objects closely approach

aircraft. Encounters with these lights or objects, UAP, have a demonstrated a variety of

safety related effects on pilots, crew, cockpit discipline and on-board instrumentation.

NARCAP Chief Scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines has compiled a catalogue of over 3400

aviation related UAP cases. He has conducted a comprehensive review of UAP reports by

U.S. air traffic controllers and pilots from the past 50 years. A result of this effort is

Richard’s paper” Aviation Safety in America- A Previously Neglected Factor”. It

contains analyses of over one hundred reports of UAP involved in near misses, close

pacing, disrupted avionics, and collisions. These events were reported by US military

aviators, civil aviation professionals, private pilots, and by foreign aircrews operating in

US airspace.

NARCAP has no basis for conjecture regarding the true nature or source of these lights

and objects. It is the NARCAP position that certain unidentified aerial phenomena have

an effect on aviation safety that can be quantified. It is the intention of this organization

to develop a body of data that will stand up to scientific scrutiny and serve as a basis for

understanding this phenomenon.

It is our hope that aviation professionals will recognize the importance of this work and

contact NARCAP with their reports of encounters with UAP. Often, though not always,

reporters are concerned about their confidentiality. We are not associated with the FAA

or other government agencies, or the airlines. With regards to employers, the FAA, and

the media, we have a process in place to ensure that confidentiality is protected.

For more information contact:

Ted Roe, Executive Director (831) 338-4783

Or email admin@narcap.org

Or go to Our Website www.narcap.org

To report UAP encounters call (800) 732-3666

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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 crew of an II-76 cargo aircraft refused to take off, claiming they

saw a luminescent object hovering above the runway of the Siberia's

Barnaul airport, local aviation company director lvan Komarov was

quoted as saying.

The crew of another cargo plane, refusing to use the runway for the

same reason, landed their jet at another airport, Komarov said.

The UFO took off and vanished from the airport 90 minutes later,

according to the report. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse)



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LESLIE KEAN

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 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), /nternazionale (Italy), VSD

(France), the /rish Independent.

Op-ed pieces

the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Journal of Commerce, 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/Collections

Perspectives: Drugs and Society (Coursewise Publishing, Inc. 2000)

Stone Soup for the World (Conari Press, 1998)

Drugs, Society and Behavior 98/99 (Dushkin/McGraw -Hill, 1998)

Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity (Aperture, 1994),

co-authored with Alan Clements

Director, The Burma Project USA, 1991 — present

Human rights and media advocacy

Radio 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 | million); Democracy Now with Amy Goodman (Pacifica national); The

Gerry Ryan Show (Channel 2, National radio Ireland) and many others.

Honors

lhe Fund for Investigative Journalism: grants, 1996, 1997 and 1998

Project Censored Honorable Mention: 1998

The Nation Institute: grant, 1997

Cover story selected by The Nation as their submission for the George Polk Award, 1996

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