OK - Here is what the former French heads of NASA, Air Force, etc say in
their reality-shattering 1999 Cometa report, holding that the
extraterrestrial hypothesis has significant support. What follows is a
summary by a French scientist. The 500 cases in the report are hard
evidence. Ufology is for the patient, BTW.
List members engaging in this thread are at a disadvantage, because they
are victims of a covert information war by the USA government to suppress
facts of the extraterrestrial presence. If you want to debate this issue,
become informed. But realize that you (mainly USAers) are in a society whose
government, unlike that of France, suppresses the evidence and
assassinates people like Philip Schneider, a USAer who tied to make this
public. USAers are only 5% of the global propulation. The extraterrestrial
hypothesis holds the USA as the PROBLEM not the SOLUTION. USA mind-set is
also a problem, as 5% of the global population consumes 25% of its resoures.
An extraterrestrial landing would mean the end of a war-based economy, of USA
hegemony, and a more equal world. So USAers may be in denial or resistance.
Enjoy, and VERIFY! Alfred Webre, Vancouver, BC
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http://www.cninews.com/CNI_French.html
The French Report on UFOs and Defence : a short
presentation
by Gildas Bourdais
It must be stressed here that this is an independant report, written by a
private association called COMETA. It is
summarized here with the approval of the authors.
To translate and publish the report itself, in part or in its integrality,
permission should be asked by writing to the
administrator of the association COMETA, Mr Michel Algrin, 25, boulevard
Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris,
France.
On Friday 16 of July 1999 was published in France an outstanding document,
called "UFOs and Defence. What
must we be prepared for ?" ("Les OVNI et la Défense. A quoi doit-on se
préparer ?") This ninety pages report
is the result of an in depth study of UFOs, covering many aspects of the
subject, especially questions of
defence. The study was carried out during several years by an independant
group of former "auditors" at the
very serious Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence, or IHEDN
("Institut des hautes études de défense
nationale"), and of qualified experts from various fields. Before its public
release, it has been sent to French
President of the Republic Jacques Chirac, and to Prime minister Lionel
Jospin.
This Report is prefaced by General Bernard Norlain, of the Air Force, former
Director of IHEDN, and it begins
with a preamble by André Lebeau, former President of the National Center for
Space Studies ("Centre national
d'études spatiales", CNES),the French equivalent of NASA. The group itself,
collective author of the report, is
an association of experts, many of whom are or have been auditors of IHEDN,
and it is presided over by
General Denis Letty, of the Air Force, former auditor(FA) of IHEDN. Its name
"COMETA" stands for
"Committee for in depth studies".
A non exhaustive list of members is given at the beginning, and it is
impressive enough. It includes : General
Bruno Lemoine, of the Air Force (FA of IHEDN), Admiral Marc Merlo (FA of
IHEDN). Michel Algrin, Doctor in
Political Sciences, attorney at law (FA of IHEDN), General Pierre Bescond,
engineer for armaments (FA of
IHEDN), Denis Blancher, Chief National Police superintendant at the Ministry
ot the Interior, Christian Marchal,
chief engineer of the national "corps des Mines", Research Director at the
"National Office of Aeronautical
Research" (ONERA), General Alain Orszag, Phd in physics, engineer for
armaments.
The committee also expresses its gratitude to outside contributors, among
whom : Jean-Jacques Vélasco,
head of SEPRA at CNES, François Louange, President of Fleximage, specialist
of photo analysis, General
Joseph Domange, of the Air Force, general delegate of the Association of
auditors at IHEDN.
General Norlain tells in a short preface how this committee was created.
General Letty came to see him in
March 1995, when he was Director of IHEDN, to discuss his project of
committee on UFOs. Norlain assured
him of his interest and addressed him to the Association of Auditors (AA) of
IHEDN, which in turn gave him its
support. It is interesting to recall here that, twenty years ago, it was a
report of that same Association which led
to the creation of GEPAN, the first unit for UFO study, at CNES.
As a result, several members of the committee come from the Association of
Auditors of IHEDN,joined by other
experts. Most of them hold, or have held, important functions in defence,
industry, teaching, research,or various
central administrations. General Norlain expresses hope that this report will
help develop new efforts nationally,
and an indispensable international cooperation.
General Letty, as president of COMETA, points to the main theme of the
report, which is that the accumulation
of well documented observations compells us now to consider all hypotheses as
to the origin of UFOs,
especially extraterrestrial hypotheses.
The committee then presents the contents of the study : In a first part,
presentation of some remarkable cases,
both French and foreign ; In a second part, they describe the present
organization of research in France and
abroad, and studies made by scientists worldwide which may bring partial
explanations, in accordance with
known laws of physics. The main global explanations are then reviewed, from
secret crafts to extraterrestrial
manifestations ; In a third part, will be examined measures to be taken
regarding defence, from information of
pilots, both civilian and military, to strategic, political and religious
consequences, should the extraterrestrial
hypothesis be confirmed.
Part I : "Facts and Testimonies"
Many of the cases selected are well known by most researchers, and need only
to be mentioned here. They are
:
-Testimonies of French pilots. M. Giraud, pilot of MirageIV (1977) ; Colonel
Bosc, fighter pilot (1976) ; Air
France flight AF 3532 (jan 1994).
-Aeronautical cases world wide. Lakenheath (1956) ; RB-47 (1957) ; Teheran
(1976) ; Russia (1990) ; San
Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina, 1995).
-Observations from the ground. Tananarive (1954) ; observation of a saucer
near the ground by a French pilot,
J.-P. Fartek (1979) ; observation at close range over a Russian missile site,
by several witnesses (1989).
-Close encounters in France. Valensole (Maurice Masse, 1965) ; Cussac, Cantal
(1967) ; Trans-en-Provence
(1981) ; Nancy (so called case of the "Amaranth" 1982).
-Counter-exemples of elucidated phenomena (two cases).
Although the selection is limited, it seems to be sufficient to convince an
uninformed but open minded reader of
the reality of UFOs.
Part II : "The Present State of Knowledge"
The second part, entitled "the present state of knowledge" ("Le point des
connaissances"), begins with a survey
of the organization of the official UFO research in France, from the first
intructions given to the "gendarmerie" in
1974 for the redaction of reports, to the creation of GEPAN in 1977, its
organization and its results : collection
of more than 3,000 reports from the gendarmerie, cases studies, statistical
analyses. It then surveys
agreements passed by GEPAN and, later, SEPRA, with the air force and the
army, the civilian aviation and
other organs, such as civilian and military laboratories for the analysis of
samples, and photographies.
Regarding the methods and results, we are reminded of some famous cases
(Trans-en-Provence, l'Amarante),
and emphasis is made on the the catalogues of cases, notably of pilots
(Weinstein catalogue), and
"radar/visual", world wide. A historical note appears here with a quotation
of the famous letter of General
Twining, of september 1947, asserting already to the reality of UFOs.
The following chapter, called "hypotheses and attempts at modeling" ("OVNI :
hypothèses,essais de
modélisation") discusses some models and hypotheses which are under study in
several countries. Partial
simulations have already been made for UFO propulsion, based on observations
of aspects such as : speed,
movements and accelerations, engine failure of nearby vehicles, paralysis of
witnesses. One model is MHD
propulsion, already tested successfully in water, and wich might be achieved
in the atmosphere with
superconducting circuits, in a few decades. Other studies are briefly
mentioned, regarding both atmospheric
and space propulsion, such as particle beams, antigravity, reliance on
planetary and stellar impulsion. The
failure of land vehicle engines may be explained by microwave radiations. In
fact, high power hyperfrequency
generators are under study in France and other countries. One application is
micro wave weapons. Particle
beams, for instance proton beams, which ionize the air and become therefore
visible, might explain the
observation of truncated luminous beams. Micro waves might explain body
paralysis.
In the same chapter are next studied "global hypotheses". Hoaxes are rare and
easily detected. Some
non-scientific are put aside, such as conspiration and manipulation by very
secret, powerful groups,
parapsychic phenomena, collective hallucinations. The hypothesis of secret
weapons is also regarded as very
improbable, the same as "intoxication" at the time of the cold war, or just
natural phenomena. We are then left
with various extraterestrial hypotheses. One version has been developed in
France by astronomers
Jean-Claude Ribes and Guy Monnet, based on the concept of "space islands" of
American physicist O'Neill,
and it is compatible with present day physics.
The organization of UFO research in the United States, Great Britain and
Russia, is surveyed rapidly. In the
United States, the media and the polls show a marked interest and concern of
the public, but the official
position, especially of the Air Force, is still one of denial, more precisely
that there is no threat to national
security. Actually, declassified documents, released under FOIA, show another
story, one of surveillance of
nuclear installations by UFOs, and the continued study of UFOs by the
military and intelligence agencies.
The report stresses the importance, in the United States, of private,
independant associations. It mentions the
"Briefing Document. Best available evidence" sent in 1995 to a thousand
personalities worldwide, and the
Sturrock workshop in 1997, both sponsored by Laurance Rockefeller. The
"Briefing Document" has obviously
been welcomed by the authors of the COMETA report. The committee also notes
the public emergence of
alleged insiders such as Colonel Philip Corso, and considers that his
testimony may be partly significant as to
the real situation in that country, in spite of many critics.
The report describes briefly the situation in Great Britain, with a special
mention for Nick Pope, and poses the
question of the possible existence of secret studies pursued jointly with
American services. It mentions as well
research in Russia, and the release of some information, notably by the KGB
in 1991.
Part III : UFOs and Defence
The third part, "UFOs and Defence" ("Les OVNI et la défense"), states that,
if it is true that no hostile action has
been proved yet, at least some actions of "intimidation" have been recorded
in France (case of of the Mirage IV
for instance). Since the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs cannot be ruled out,
it is therefore necessary to study the
consequences of that hypothesis at the strategic level, but also political,
religious and media/public information
levels.
The first chapter ofPart III is devoted to prospective strategies
("Prospectives stratégiques") and it begins with
fundamental questions : "What if extraterrestrials ? What intentions and what
strategy can we deduce from their
behavior ?"
Such questions open a more controversial part of the report. Possible
motivations of extraterrestrial visitors are
explored here, such as protection of planet Earth against the dangers of
nuclear war, suggested for instance by
repeated flying over nuclear missile sites.
The committee then ponders the possible repercussion on the behavior,
official or not, of different states, and
focuses on the possibility of secret, privileged contacts which might be
"attributed to the United States". The
attitude of the U.S. is seen as "most strange" since the 1947 wave and the
Roswell event. Since that time, a
policy of increasing secrecy seems to have been applied, which might be
explained by the protection at all cost
of military technological superiority to be acquired from the study of UFOs.
Next, the report tackles the question : "What measures must we take now ?" At
the least, whatever the nature of
UFOs, they impose "critical vigilance", in particular regarding the risk of
"destabilizing manipulations". A kind of
"cosmic vigilance" should be applied by the elites, nationally and
internationally, in order to prevent any
shocking surprise, erroneous interpretation and hostile manipulation.
Nationally, COMETA urges the strenghening of SEPRA, and recommends the
creation of a cell at the highest
level of government, entrusted with the development of hypotheses, strategy,
and preparation of cooperation
agreements with European and other foreign countries. A further step would be
that European states and the
European Union undertake diplomatic action toward the Unites States within
the framework of political and
strategic alliances.
A key question of the report is "What situations must we be prepared for ?".
It mentions such situations as :
extraterrestrial move for official contact ; discovery of a UFO/alien base on
the territory or in Europe ; invasion
(deemed improbable) and localised or massive attack ; manipulation or
deliberate disinformation aiming at
destabilizing other states.
COMETA devotes special attention to "aeronautical implications", with
detailed recommendations aimed at
various personnels, such as air staffs, controllers, weathermen and
engineers. It also makes recommendations
at the scientific and technical levels, aimed at developping research, with
potential benefits for defence and
industry.
The report further explores the political and religious implications of UFOs,
using as a model the perspective of
our own exploration of space : how would we do it, how would we handle
contacts with less advanced
civilizations ?
Such an approach is not new to the well informed readers of the abundant
ufological literature, but it has a
special value here, being treated seriously at such a level. The
media/publicity implications are not forgotten,
with the problems of disinformation, fear of ridicule, and manipulation by
certain groups.
In its conclusion, COMETA claims that the physical reality of UFOs, under
control of intelligent beings, is "quasi
certain". Only one hypothesis takes into account the available data : the
hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitors.
This hypothesis is of course unproved, but has far-reaching consequences. The
goals of these alleged visitors
remain unknown but must be the subject of speculations and prospective
scenarios.
In its final recommendations, it stresses again the need to : 1) inform all
decision-makers and persons in
position of responsibility ; 2) reinforce means of investigation and study at
SEPRA ; 3) have UFO detection
taken into account by agencies engaged in of space surveillance ; 4) create a
strategic cell at the highest state
level ; 5) undertake diplomatic action toward the Unites States for
cooperation on this "capital question" ; 6)
study measures which might be necessary in case of emergencies.
Finally, this document is accompanied by seven interesting annexes which are
worth reading even by seasoned
ufologists : -1 Radar detection in France -2 Observations by astronomers -3
Life in the Universe -4 Colonization
of space -5 The Roswell case - The disinformation (an interesting text which
will be criticized by some readers,
and welcomed by others, including myself) -6 Antiquity of the UFO phenomenon.
Elements for a chronology. -7
Reflexionn on various psychological, sociological and political aspects ot
the UFO phenomenon.
The importance of this report should not be missed by all informed ufologists
around the world, considering not
only its contents but the personality of its authors, and in spite of critics
which may be addressed to it. In fact,
some sharp critics have been made soon after the release of the report, on
the Internet, and in the French press
with an article by sociologist Pierre Lagrange curiously denouncing an
operation of disinformation by way of
ridiculing the subject ("Libération of July 21, 1999). Let's hope that the
present summary will help clarify the
debate.
Gildas Bourdais
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