255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_For.pdf

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Hi Dan 
Jon (Cypher) and I look forward to seeing you on Friday at 3:30pm in your office. 
Jon, you probably recall, is an actor who starred on "Hillstreet Blues" and "Major Dan," 
among many other TV shows, Broadway (wish you could hear him sing ''The Impossible 
Dream" which he sang on Broadway in La Mancha), and movies. He's aJso a scholar 
(and sings opera in four languages), and speaks eloquently about space. We've been 
married for fifteen years. 
Since I closed down the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space a fe…

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UFOs and Defense:
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·What Should We Prepare For? 
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-An independent report on UFOs written by the French association 
COMETA. This report details the results of a study by the Institute of 
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This paper originally appeared in a special issue of the magazine VSD 
published in France in July 1999. 
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UFOs and Defense --The COMETA Report--

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"Stripping the UFO phenomenon ofits irralional layer" 
Foreword by Professor Andre 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 ofscience. Such was the case with stones falling from the sky, which 
was long considered in our country to be the stuffoffable. However, t…

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document a reflection on the hypothesis ofextraterrestrial intelligence and of the 
importance that it could have if studies came together to confirrn it. 
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This report is useful in that it contributes toward stripping the phenomenon of UFOs of 
its irrational layer. When aJI is said and done, the question ofdetennining whether or not 
those who created this report believe in the exi~tence ofextraterrestrial visitors, concealed 
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in a variety ofphenomena that are surprising in appearance but commonplace with respect 
to their cause, is of no real importance. What a scienti?t believes is i…