RELEASE 01 / NOID-255-413270-ufo-s-and-defense-what-should-we-prepare-for
255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_For
- File ID
- NOID-255-413270-ufo-s-and-defense-what-should-we-prepare-for
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- Release 01, 8 May 2026
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Official summary, as published
This file contains an independent report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA (previously published in the French magazine VDS in 1999), which details the results of a study by the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence. The file also includes a letter from Carol Rosin in which she notes that she was spokesperson for von Braun during the last years of his life.
Named in this file
43 namesPeople, programs and institutions from The Legacy Program research board whose names appear in this file, found by exact spelling against a hand-checked list. A match says only that the file names them, not what part they play. People and programs lists every file that names each one.
- Tier C Professeur André Lebeau person
Named in pages 7, 11, 88, 91.
Former President/Chairman of CNES; COMETA forward author
- Tier C Général Bernard Norlain person
Named in pages 10, 11, 88, 91.
Former Director, Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale; COMETA preface author
- Tier C Général Denis Letty person
Named in pages 10, 11, 90, 91.
French Air Force general (2nd Section); founder and chairman of COMETA
- Tier C Jean-Jacques Velasco person
Named in pages 11, 84, 88.
Director of GEPAN 1984-1988 and of SEPRA 1988-2004; COMETA contributor
- Tier B Philip J. Klass person
Named in pages 16, 17, 18, 74.
Aviation journalist and editor of the Skeptics UFO Newsletter; obtained and published Clifford Stone's service record from the National Personnel Records Center and printed the FAA Alaskan Region's 1987 press release on JAL 1628
- Tier C Marie 'Bootsie' Galbraith person
Named in pages 20, 23, 47, 83, 84.
Editor/producer of 'UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence' (1995); Rockefeller Initiative principal
- Tier C Dr Claude Poher person
Named in page 34.
CNES engineer; founding director of GEPAN, 1977-1978
- Tier B J. Allen Hynek person
Named in pages 34, 69, 74, 83, 85.
Astronomer; USAF scientific consultant 1948-1969
- Tier B Nathan F. Twining person
Named in pages 35, 36, 52, 83.
Cmdr, Air Materiel Command; later CJCS
- Tier C Carroll H. Bolender person
Named in page 45.
Brigadier General, USAF Deputy Director of Development
- Tier C Laurance S. Rockefeller person
Named in pages 47, 48.
Financier and philanthropist; funder of the 1993-1996 Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative
- Tier A Philip J. Corso person
Named in page 48.
Lt. Col., US Army; Chief, Foreign Technology Division, OCRD, 18 Apr - 18 Jul 1962
- Tier C Nick Pope person
Named in pages 49, 84.
MoD UFO desk officer, Sec(AS)2a, 1991-1994; author and disclosure commentator
- Tier C Yury Viktorovich Platov person
Named in page 49.
IZMIRAN physicist; chief executive of SETKA-AN and co-author of the official Soviet programme history
- Tier C Lincoln LaPaz person
Named in page 69.
Director, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico; principal investigator of the 1948-1951 'green fireballs' over Los Alamos, Sandia and Kirtland; scientific lead associated with Project Twinkle
- Tier A Jesse A. Marcel Sr. person
Named in page 72.
Intelligence officer, 509th Bomb Group
- Tier C Kenneth Arnold person
Named in pages 72, 75.
Civilian pilot; originator of the 1947 wave
- Tier B Roger M. Ramey person
Named in page 72.
Commanding General, Eighth Air Force
- Tier B Steven H. Schiff person
Named in page 72.
US Representative, New Mexico (R)
- Tier A Richard C. Doty person
Named in page 74.
USAF AFOSI Special Agent 1979-1988; later New Mexico State Police officer
- Tier C John Olsen Lear person
Named in page 75.
Son of the Learjet founder and a documented pilot; from a dated statement of 29 December 1987 one of the field's most prolific claimants; present at two of the three 1989 desert viewings with Lazar
- Tier B Edward U. Condon person
Named in page 83.
Scientific director, USAF-funded Colorado UFO Project
- Tier B William L. Moore person
Named in page 85.
Co-author, 'The Roswell Incident' (1980); first recipient of the MJ-12 film; self-confessed conduit for AFOSI disinformation
- Tier B Leslie Kean person
Named in pages 87, 90, 94.
Investigative journalist; co-author of the 5 June 2023 Debrief story
- Tier B John Callahan person
Named in page 90.
Federal Aviation Administration manager at Washington headquarters in the mid-1980s; the FAA official who in 2000 and 2001 publicly described the agency's handling of the Japan Air Lines 1628 case of 17 November 1986
- Tier A Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter person
Named in page 91.
First Director of Central Intelligence, May 1947 - October 1950; NICAP board member 1960
- Tier A Project Blue Book program
Named in pages 16, 34, 35, 45, 48, 81.
Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)
- Tier A Robertson Panel program
Named in page 74.
CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence advisory panel, January 1953
- Tier A National Aeronautics and Space Administration institution
Named in pages 2, 7, 58, 59, 70, 81, 88, 89 and 2 more.
Civil space agency; host of the 2023 UAP Independent Study Team
- Tier C Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) institution
Named in pages 7, 10, 11, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 6 more.
French national space agency; host of GEPAN, SEPRA and GEIPAN since 1977
- Tier C Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) institution
Named in pages 10, 11, 12, 56, 67, 82, 86.
French national defence studies institute; source of the 1976 committee and the COMETA auditors
- Tier A Defense Intelligence Agency institution
Named in pages 19, 20, 47, 82, 89.
Combat support agency; AAWSAP/AATIP executive agent
- Tier A Atomic Energy Commission institution
Named in pages 32, 81.
Civilian atomic authority, 1946-1974; statutory custodian of fissionable material and atomic weapons
- Tier A Central Intelligence Agency institution
Named in pages 47, 73, 74, 81, 89, 90, 91.
Independent civilian foreign intelligence service; convener of the Robertson Panel
- Tier C Fund for UFO Research institution
Named in pages 47, 81, 85.
US grant-making body for civilian UFO research, founded 1979
- Tier C J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) institution
Named in pages 47, 82, 85.
Civilian research body founded 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, Chicago
- Tier C Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) institution
Named in pages 47, 81, 83, 84, 85.
US civilian UFO investigation network, founded 1969
- Tier C National Security Council institution
Named in pages 48, 82.
Statutory body, 1947; the approving authority for covert action and the issuer of the NSC directive series
- Tier B Senate Armed Services Committee institution
Named in page 48.
Committee of jurisdiction over the NDAA vehicle
- Tier C Ministry of Defence UFO Desk (Secretariat (Air Staff) / Directorate of Air Staff) institution
Named in page 49.
UK civil-service desk receiving and triaging public UAP reports, c.1950s-2009
- Tier A United States Air Force institution
Named in page 84.
Military department; original custodian of the UFO record and of the Roswell material
- Tier B Federal Aviation Administration institution
Named in pages 89, 90, 91, 92.
Civil aviation regulator in the Department of Transportation; first-listed contributing agency to NARA Record Group 615
- Tier C Raytheon (RTX Corporation) institution
Named in page 90.
Prime contractor; sensors, radar, missile systems
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