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PAGE 2-4 Cover letter April 30 2001 from Carol Rosin 498 Manzanita Ct Ventura CA addressed to Dan regarding a Friday 3:30pm meeting introduces her husband Jon Cypher actor Hill Street Blues Major Dad Broadway describes her history as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and founder of the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space founded 1983 since closed states she made a commitment to von Braun to find a path to open the doors to space with his full and unlimited vision and that she believes she has found a way to do it via a package she is bringing at no cost to the recipient or NASA Signed Carol Rosin with phone/email A subsequent handwritten note partially illegible references the enclosed UFO report and follow-up regarding articles PAGE 5-9 Title page UFOs and Defense What Should We Prepare For 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 IHEDN originally appeared in a special issue of the magazine VSD published in France in July 1999 Foreword by Professor Andre Lebeau former chairman of CNES argues that rare discrete hard-to-reproduce phenomena like UFOs still merit scientific study when collectively/indisputably observed analogous to how meteorite falls were once dismissed as fable before being accepted as scientific fact credits GEPAN/SEPRA's work states that whether or not the report's authors personally believe in an extraterrestrial explanation is of no real importance to the rigor of the analysis Full table of contents listed Preface Foreword Introduction Part Facts and Testimonies Ch.1 Testimonies of French Pilots Ch.2 Aeronautical Cases Throughout the World Ch.3 Sightings from the Ground Ch.4 Close Encounters in France Ch.5 Counterexamples of Explained Phenomena Part The Extent of Our Knowledge Ch.6 Organization of Research in France Ch.7 Methods and Results of GEPAN/SEPRA Ch.8 UFOs Hypotheses and Modeling Attempts Ch.9 Organization of Research Abroad Part UFOs and Defense Ch.10 Strategic Planning Ch.11 Aeronautical Implications Ch.12 Scientific and Technical Implications Ch.13 Political and Religious Implications Ch.14 Media Implications Conclusion and Recommendations Appendices Radar Detection in France Astronomers Sightings Life in the Universe Colonization of Space The Roswell Affair Disinformation Long History of the UFO Phenomenon Chronology Reflections on Psychological/Sociological/Political Aspects References Glossary PAGE 10 Introduction recounts that in 1976 a committee of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale IHEDN chaired by General Blanchard of the Gendarmerie Nationale opened the UFO file leading to creation of GEPAN Groupe d'Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non Identifies precursor to SEPRA under CNES States the report uses UFO informally in place of the more scientific term UAP Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon Notes cases like the 1981 Trans-en-Provence ground-trace sighting as evidence something did in fact land on the ground PAGE 11 Chapter Testimonies of French Pilots details the March 1977 case of Mirage IV pilot Herve Giraud and his navigator near Dijon at 9600m altitude Mach 0.9 who observed a very bright light approaching on an apparent collision course from o'clock the pilot queried Contrexeville military radar control which reported no corresponding radar contact and per standard emergency procedure asked the crew to check their oxygen PAGE 133 Chapter 9.1 Organization of Research in the United States notes American public interest via films Independence Day Men in Black Contact and a June 1997 Time magazine survey showing nearly in Americans believed an extraterrestrial craft crashed at Roswell in July 1947 mentions Harvard psychiatry professor Dr John Mack's serious treatment of alleged abduction experiences states U.S authorities have consistently denied UFOs pose a national security threat or evidence extraterrestrial origin a position held by the Air Force's UFO study program from 1948-1969 Project Blue Book PAGE 145 Discussion of a 1997 Pocantico colloquium funded by Laurance Rockefeller moderated by astrophysicist Peter Sturrock reviewing physical UFO evidence with French participation from SEPRA Detailed critical-but-not-wholly-dismissive treatment of Lt Col Philip Corso's 1997 book The Day After Roswell Corso served on the National Security Council staff 1953-57 under Eisenhower forewarded by Senator Strom Thurmond later withdrawn from reprints Corso claimed the Roswell object was an extraterrestrial vessel claimed to have seen a preserved humanoid cadaver in July 1947 and claimed to have helped seed reverse-engineered technology printed circuits lasers light intensifiers into U.S industry in 1961-62 the report notes the U.S Air Force published a second Roswell-denial report shortly after Corso's book appeared following a first report in 1994 described as the first official UFO study since Blue Book ended in 1969 PAGE 151 Discussion of Soviet/Russian research 1991 KGB declassification of 124 pages titled Cases of Sightings of Abnormal Events over USSR Territory 1982-1990 covering 17 regions details a 1989 case near Astrakhan in which three bright disks performed high-speed maneuvers over an Army missile base observed by seven military witnesses silently transitioning from hovering to high speed with one object reportedly outrunning a pursuing Soviet fighter jet so quickly that it seemed to leave the fighter jet standing still Also references a March 21 1990 Pereslav-Zalesski visual/radar case reported by Aviation General Maltsev of a silent discoid object accelerating to two-to-three times the speed of a modern fighter PAGE 151-157 Part UFOs and Defense Chapter 10 Strategic Planning states To date a UFO has not been the certain cause of any accident or a fortiori any hostile act at least officially but that credible UFO sightings date back to 1944 predating even classified human stealth-aircraft programs arguing against a purely terrestrial/secret-program explanation for all cases Discusses possible extraterrestrial motives concern over human nuclear technology and asteroid-orbit-modification projects a four-tier classification of possible state postures toward the phenomenon no knowledge/no concern knowledge but no investigative means knowledge with investigative means established contact/collaboration and directly raises General Twining's 1947 secret report on flying disks not revealed publicly until 22 years later in the Condon Report as early evidence that U.S officials concluded these objects truly do exist followed by what the report characterizes as an ongoing U.S policy of increasing secrecy on the subject Excerpt ends at page 60 of 94 due to processing limit remaining chapters 11-14 Conclusion and Recommendations and Appendices including the dedicated Roswell Affair Disinformation appendix are not covered here PAGE 61-65 Chapter 13 Political and Religious Implications continued from Ch 13.2 on impacts of contact explores as a hypothetical exercise from the visitors point of view a staged sequence of possible extraterrestrial engagement with humanity Section 13.2.1.1 Impacts on Local Religions argues that appearances of spaceships remote-controlled craft astronauts or bionic robots could reorient religions or found new myths drawing parallels to Ezekiel's flying machines the Epic of Gilgamesh the Elohim of Genesis the Watchmen of the Sky/Book of Enoch the Viracochas of South America the Incas and the gods of ancient Egypt concludes such an impact would likely be transitory since ancient civilizations already integrated terrifying manifestations into their cosmologies Section 13.2.1.2 Political Impacts speculates a monarch or head of state could try to proclaim himself the exclusive and privileged interpreter of such manifestations becoming a god-king Section 13.2.2 turns to industrial-age civilizations judged more skeptical but still liable to be profoundly marked by irrefutable proof of extraterrestrials Section 13.3 Phase Three Influences on Local Civilizations and 13.3.1/13.3.2 speculate about deliberately influencing pre-industrial and industrial societies seeding organisms guiding genetic mutations providing sacred texts/laws such as those of Manu or the Koran referencing the unexplained near-simultaneous rise of the Indus Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations and the 1531 Oronce Fine map of an ice-free Antarctica It floats the contemporary Roswell case as a possible accidental technology-transfer event Section 13.4 Phase Four Direct Contacts discusses hypothetical direct contact scenarios contact with preindustrial civilizations compared to the Spanish conquest of Central America and with industrial-age civilizations secret contact with select individuals or heads of state information/disinformation/counter-information campaigns or fully open public contact and its likely geopolitical religious and media consequences including UN sessions and international welcoming committees The chapter closes by imagining the psychological and political fallout for the hypothetical visited world idolaters vs resistance movements and in a mirror-image thought experiment what humanity's own reaction would be if it discovered a more advanced civilization first PAGE 65-66 Chapter 14 Media Implications discusses why sensible people scientists moreover studying still-inexplicable phenomena risk seeming ridiculous and contrasts scientific curiosity with the press's appetite for sudden sensational developments Section 14.1 What Can a Government Fear From the Curiosity of the Media lists panic citing Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast panic in the United States as a possible influence on U.S military handling of the 1947 Roswell incident mistrust fear of ridicule and manipulation by lobbies/pressure groups Section 14.2 What Attitudes do the Media Adopt distinguishes tabloids which broke recent Roswell witness revelations major newspapers irony/aggressiveness but capable of serious coverage explicitly citing the case of San Carlos de Bariloche where dozens of people were witnesses to a sighting as an example of the press spreading news about an extraordinary phenomenon that many people saw firsthand and television/film mentioning Channel+'s Nuit des Extraterrestres as sensationalist versus a well-documented March 1996 broadcast by the French channel Arte Section 14.3 What Should Be Done argues humanity's future lies in space and that a strengthened SEPRA could train journalists and build an internet documentary resource Note this Bariloche reference in Ch.14 corresponds to the same Argentine case detailed later in the appended U.S press reprints on pages 89-91 see below PAGE 67-68 Conclusions and Recommendations states the UFO problem cannot be eliminated by mere caustic and offhand witticisms recaps 20+ years of GEPAN/SEPRA studies with the Gendarmerie Nationale and Air Force and states these demonstrate the almost certain physical reality of completely unknown flying objects with remarkable flight performances and noiselessness apparently operated by intelligent beings Concludes secret earthly craft drones stealth aircraft explain only a minority of cases and that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is by far the best scientific hypothesis not proven but strongly supported Six recommendations follow inform political military and administrative decision-makers and pilots via a gradual information campaign targeting ENA IHEDN military academies Saint-Cyr Gendarmerie Santé des Armées Polytechnique ENSTA ENSAE civilian schools police academies journalism schools École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile defense-research agencies DGA ONERA CEA/DAM and communications directorates DICOD boost SEPRA's human/material resources for investigation international data collection and foreign relations make UFO detection an objective of civilian/military space-surveillance systems create a high-level State unit to work with SEPRA on hypotheses funding a few million francs/year and international cooperation agreements initiate diplomatic outreach to the United States with EU support to press for collaboration reflect at the public-authority level on measures to take in the event of a spectacular indisputable UFO manifestation overt contact attempt landing before witnesses etc PAGE 68-69 Appendix Radar Detection in France explains France's two radar networks military primary secondary radar and civilian mostly secondary radar only Primary radar detects any moving object via reflection regardless of onboard equipment secondary radar only detects objects carrying a responding transponder meaning a UFO without a transponder is invisible to secondary radar and can only be caught by primary military radar Control and Detection Centers/CDC AWACS or soon Navy Hawkeye aircraft unless it is itself stealth All radar data nationwide feeds into the STRIDA Système de Traitement des Informations de Défense Aérienne network covering a detection area more than 4500 km per side PAGE 69-70 Appendix Astronomers Sightings by Jean-Claude Ribes notes professional astronomers are reticent to report sightings for fear of ridicule Cites Allen Hynek's informal 1950s survey of 40 astronomers roughly 10% reported unexplained sightings including Professor Lincoln La Paz Director Institute of Meteoritics University of New Mexico and Clyde Tombaugh discoverer of Pluto 1997 and Peter A Sturrock's 1970s questionnaire to 2,611 members of the American Astronomical Association half responded sixty sightings reported Cites French Marseille astronomers Georges Courtès and Maurice Viton as a frequently cited French sighting Concludes sighting rates among astronomers roughly match the general population with strong reticence absent guaranteed anonymity PAGE 70 Appendix Life in the Universe reviews evidence for extraterrestrial life Mars's ancient liquid water per Viking probe data the then-debated NASA claim of fossils in a Martian meteorite the discovery of extrasolar planets a half dozen stars then known to have planets and 35 years of SETI radio searches no signals detected yet including France's Nançay radiotelescope PAGE 70-72 Appendix Colonization of Space surveys prospects for solar-system colonization the planned international space station Alpha successor to Mir a possible permanent U.S moon base Russian/American closed-ecosystem experiments including Biosphere a 1.3-hectare Arizona greenhouse a 1991-1993 two-year closed experiment with four men and four women demonstrated near-total water recycling but imperfect air/food self-sufficiency physicist Gerard O'Neill's concept of cylindrical artificial space colonies 30 km km rotating for artificial gravity built from asteroid-belt materials between Mars and Jupiter sheltering millions and eventual interstellar ship-worlds once antimatter propulsion is mastered Discusses the ethics of first contact with a less-advanced civilization discovered during such colonization advocating discretion via silent high-speed MHD-propelled craft and non-lethal weapons citing pulsed-microwave paralysis research to avoid culture shock followed eventually by calculated indiscretions to acclimate a population to the idea of extraplanetary visitors PAGE 72-75 Appendix The Roswell Affair Disinformation a detailed chronology Summer 1947 Roswell New Mexico base houses the world's only nuclear-armed bombers June 24 1947 Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine UFOs near Mount Rainier July 1947 morning Roswell base publicly announces recovery of a flying disk from a ranch July 1947 afternoon Fort Worth General Ramey commander of the 8th Air Force tells journalists the debris is from a weather balloon and displays balloon debris for photographs the affair goes quiet for 30+ years 1978 Retired Lt Col Jesse Marcel the intelligence officer who recovered the original debris in 1947 states on television the debris was definitely of extraterrestrial origin and that what Ramey showed the press was not what he had actually brought back Numerous ufologist-collected affidavits describe military personnel threatening witnesses into silence and some testimonies describe a debris field with a space glider frame and small humanoid cadavers 1991 General Du Bose Ramey's 1947 chief of staff affirms by affidavit that Ramey substituted weather-balloon debris for the actual Roswell debris Early 1994 U.S Representative Steven Schiff New Mexico requests DoD explanation then asks the GAO to investigate how the Air Force handled Roswell records September 1994 Air Force Secretary's Office publishes a report attributing the debris to the classified Project Mogul balloon program July 1995 the GAO report states the Roswell debate continues and that all base administrative records for March 1945-December 1949 and radio logs October 1946-February 1949 were destroyed with no record of when/by whom/under whose orders Summer/fall 1995 the widely broadcast alien autopsy film airs on 30 TV stations worldwide of doubtful authenticity overshadowing the GAO report's release 1996 the films Independence Day and the TV series The X-Files reference Roswell heavily The appendix's Opinions on Roswell section notes consistent witness descriptions of an ultra-resistant self-restoring memory metal debris and the coincidence of the crash date with July 4th Independence Day Its Roswell and Disinformation section argues the missing files and clumsy explanations show the Air Force is hiding something and distinguishes reducing disinformation the Air Force's Mogul-balloon explanation and journalist Karl Pflock's book Roswell in Perspective accused of burying key witness affidavits from amplifying disinformation the sensationalized alien-autopsy film A further section Reducing disinformation on UFOs describes astronomer Allen Hynek's admission he was an Air Force consultant 1948-1966 of assigning unjustified astronomical explanations to cases the CIA's December 1952 Robertson Committee recommending the phenomenon be stripped of its aura of mystery and that ufological groups be monitored/infiltrated and Aviation Week editor Philip Klass's debunking attempts on the Lakenheath 1956 RB-47 1957 and Tehran 1976 cases Amplifying disinformation on UFOs traces this back to George Adamski's 1952 contactee claims then to the Paul Bennewitz case a physicist who recorded pulsed microwaves at Kirtland AFB New Mexico and was fed fantastical revelations about alien abductions/implants by Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent Richard Doty John Lear's claims about the secret Area 51 Groom Lake base and former Navy petty officer Milton William Bill Cooper's claims tying extraterrestrials EBEs to the Council on Foreign Relations Bilderberg Group and Trilateral Commission concluding this amplifying disinformation likely served to protect real research on microwave weapons at Kirtland and secret aircraft at Groom Lake PAGE 75-77 Appendix The Long History of the UFO Phenomenon Elements of a Chronology begins with Kenneth Arnold's June 24 1947 sighting near Mount Rainier as the start of worldwide dissemination noting 850 separate U.S sightings were logged May-July 1947 and a January 1947 RAF Mosquito night-fighter failed to intercept a fast radar-tracked object over the North Sea Covers Sweden's 1946 ghost rocket wave 1,000 sightings of fusiform/spherical/disk objects Feb-Dec 1946 worrying Scandinavian/British/U.S military initially theorized as Soviet tests using recovered German technology later ruled out Covers WWII-era foo fighters 1940-1945 swarms of red/green luminous balls or small metallic disks that paced Allied and German aircraft first called Kraut fireballs seen from the ground from June 1944 on each side suspecting the other had a secret weapon with files reportedly classified until at least 1949 Covers the 1880-1900 airship wave over the U.S and Great Britain voluminous fusiform craft with powerful searchlights and engine sounds mostly 1896-97 in the U.S also reported in Spain Germany Sweden and Russia noted as pre-dating any real dirigible technology of the era Giffard's 1852 test Renard's 1885 flight over Paris true aircraft only after 1910 Covers ancient/medieval sightings Goethe's 1768 account near Frankfurt of a luminous tube on the ground Nuremberg April 1561 and Basel August 1566 mass sightings of colored spheres/disks/"cigars seeming to do battle the Detchani monastery Yugoslavia built 1327-1335 frescoes depicting angels in flying vessels Bishop Agobard of Lyons Charlemagne era reportedly saving four people accused of having descended from an airship after abduction by celestial beings and Greco-Roman chroniclers Dion Cassius Pliny the Elder Titus Livy Julius Obsequens Cicero Daimachos Anaxagoras Homer describing lights golden flying spheres and multiple moons/suns in the sky PAGE 77-81 Appendix Reflections on Various Psychological Sociological and Political Aspects of the UFO Phenomenon framed as primarily about the United States opens noting many Americans believe UFOs are physically real extraterrestrial and covered up by the government and cites Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast as a partial but insufficient explanation for official secrecy fears of panic Section 7.1 The UFO Paradox contrasts public belief with strong resistance in scientific political and media circles Section 7.2.1 explains scientists resistance as fear of reputational/career/funding damage and as a 200-year-old anthropocentric humanism that resists any suggestion of superior interfering outside intelligences with Meiji-era Japan cited as history's one exception to civilizations shaken by contact with more advanced ones Section 7.2.2 covers politicians notes rare open-minded exceptions President Jimmy Carter Senator Barry Goldwater versus General Douglas MacArthur's 1955 remark to Naples mayor Achille Lauro and his 1962 West Point address warning of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy Mikhail Gorbachev's account revealed at the 1985 U.S.-Soviet summit that President Reagan told him the U.S and USSR would join forces if Earth faced an extraterrestrial invasion and Reagan's September 21 1987 UN General Assembly speech about how differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world Sections 7.2.2.3.1-7.3.3 speculate that U.S leaders may already hold hard proof e.g crashed craft argue disclosure risks panic sect proliferation and loss of trust in leadership and conclude the U.S Army/Pentagon has the strongest institutional interest in maintaining secrecy both to preserve any technological spill-over advantage propulsion materials stealth weapons and to avoid tipping off rivals concluding secrecy will likely persist absent mounting public pressure or a surge in sightings This section also references the RB-47 shadowing case covered fully in Ch.2 as an example of disturbing sightings PAGE 81-82 Glossary of acronyms used throughout the report AFB AFOSI AIAA Blue Book CCD CEA CFR CIA CNES EBE Extraterrestrial Biological Entity FOIA GAO GEPAN/SEPRA MUFON NASA NORAD NSC ONERA RAF SETI STRIDA UAP UFO etc PAGE 82-83 Closing dedication/back-cover text repeated later verbatim on page 86 summarizes COMETA as a committee of former IHEDN auditors and experts who for the first time produced a report devoted entirely to the UFO problem for the Chief of State and Prime Minister studying well-documented French and foreign cases often supported by traces on the ground or tracks confirmed by radar and concluding the nonterrestrial-origin hypothesis cannot be ruled out and if correct would be loaded with consequences for Defense Followed by a French-language bibliography organized by chapter Ch.2 Lakenheath/RB-47/Tehran radar-visual cases citing the Condon Report James McDonald Philip Klass Allen Hynek Ch.3 the 1991 KGB UFO dossier on the Russian missile-base multi-witness case Ch.6 GEPAN information/technical notes including the Trans-en-Provence trace analysis Ch.7 MHD propulsion antigravity and witness-paralysis research Ch.8 Roswell sources including Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell 1997 the USAF Roswell Report Case Closed 1997 Nick Pope's Open Skies Closed Minds and Timothy Good's Above Top Secret PAGE 83-86 Continued French bibliography Ch.13 religious/mythological source citations Book of Ezekiel Epic of Gilgamesh Book of Genesis Book of Enoch Book of Jubilees Laws of Manu Annex astronomer surveys Annex space colonization sources including O'Neill's The High Frontier Annex Roswell bibliography William Moore's The Roswell Incident 1980 Kevin Randle's three Roswell books 1991 1994 1995 Karl Pflock's Roswell in Perspective 1994 Col Richard Weaver's official USAF Roswell report July 1994 and the U.S GAO's July 1995 report to Rep Steven Schiff Annex further chronology sources PAGE 87-89 Appendix reprint of a June 17 2000 Irish Independent feature article by journalist Leslie Kean titled UFOs and Defense What Should We Prepare For summarizing the COMETA report for an English-language audience following the April 2000 release of Area 51 satellite imagery Confirms the study examined nearly 500 detailed international aeronautical sightings and radar/visual cases concluding roughly of well-documented sightings resist mundane explanation and are best explained by the extraterrestrial hypothesis Identifies COMETA's core authors four-star General Bernard Norlain former commander of the French Tactical Air Force military counselor to the Prime Minister General Denis Letty air force fighter pilot COMETA chairman and André Lebeau former head of CNES France's space agency other contributors named include three-star Admiral Marc Merlo national chief of police Denis Blancher and Jean-Jacques Velasco head of the government UFO-study agency SEPRA Reports international reaction Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell MIT doctorate states he is convinced at a confidence level above 90pc that there is reality to all of this five-star Admiral Lord Hill-Norton former UK Chief of the Defence Staff joins Mitchell in calling for U.S congressional hearings U.S Naval Reserve Commander Willard Miller describes Pentagon briefings 1989-2000 with the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and others and states the only threat to the national security of the United States is the continued denial of undeniable physical UFO occurrences Cites Air Force Regulation 200-2 and the Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication 146 as legal mechanisms restricting UFO-sighting disclosure violation subject to prosecution under the Espionage Act Notes a 1960 Congressional Record urgent warning entered by Rep Leonard Wolf Iowa quoting former CIA Director R.E Hillenkoetter and NATO Air Coordinator General L.M Chassin's warning that failure to recognize UFOs risked mistaking them for the guided missiles of an enemy Notes this concern was folded into the 1971 U.S.-Soviet Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Outbreak of Nuclear War requiring mutual notification of unidentified-object detections that could risk nuclear war Mentions Chile's Air Force forming a UFO study committee the March 1997 mass sighting of triangular objects over Arizona Senator John McCain quoted calling it never fully explained and a January 2000 sighting by four police officers in St Clair County Illinois PAGE 89-90 Second Leslie Kean article Providence Journal Pilot encounters with UFOs Study challenges secrecy and denial opens with a January 2001 Agence France Presse report of a Siberian airport shut for 1.5 hours by a hovering luminescent UFO detailed further on page 93 Covers an October 2000 study Aviation Safety in America A Previously Neglected Factor by retired NASA-Ames aerospace scientist Richard Haines chief scientist National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena/NARCAP documenting 100+ pilot/crew reports of unidentified aerial phenomena UAP affecting aviation safety including 56 near-misses Named cases TWA Captain Phil Schultz over Lake Michigan in 1981 saw a large silver disk with portholes that braced him for a mid-air collision before it turned away at high speed Japan Airlines 747 Captain Kenju Terauchi's 1986 encounter over Alaska with two spaceships that stopped in front of his aircraft a 1997 Swissair Boeing 747 near-miss over Long Island with a glowing white cylindrical object pilot Philip Bobet per an FAA memo Then directly citing the COMETA/French study itself the article states The study could not explain a 1994 Air France viewing of a UAP that instantaneously disappeared as confirmed by radar and a 1995 Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 727 encounter with a luminous object that extinguished airport lights as the plane attempted to land This 1995 Argentine case an Aerolíneas Argentinas Boeing 727 whose landing approach was accompanied by a luminous object that knocked out the destination airport's lights is the same incident referenced earlier in the report's Chapter 14 page 66 as the case of San Carlos de Bariloche where dozens of people were witnesses to the sighting it is widely identified in other public accounts of this event as the December 1995 Bariloche/Aerolíneas Argentinas flight AR 674 encounter under Captain Jorge Polanco during which the airport's runway lighting reportedly went dark as the aircraft was landing The article also covers Chile's Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena CEFAA formed 1997 and its president General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza who along with COMETA chairman General Denis Letty called the Haines study internationally significant NASA-Ames Aviation Safety Program head Brian Smith's cautious endorsement and a forthcoming National Press Club briefing at which former FAA Accidents and Investigations Branch chief John Callahan would disclose FAA documentation and alleged CIA suppression of the Terauchi Alaska case Also cites retired United Airlines Captain Neil Daniels whose DC-10 was forced into a turn by magnetic interference from a UAP PAGE 91 Boston Globe article May 21 2000 by Leslie Kean UFO theorists gain support abroad but repression at home largely parallels the Irish Independent piece COMETA authorship 500 international aeronautical sightings extraterrestrial hypothesis recommendations for EU-U.S diplomatic cooperation with added detail Harvard psychiatry professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Mack is quoted at a UFO conference at the New York Hall of Science stating No culture from the beginning of time...has ever voided the idea of...other intelligent life...That's arrogance Notes the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Fire Officer's Guide to Disaster Control 2nd edition taught at seven U.S fire-science degree programs contains a section warning of UFO hazards electrical fields causing blackouts force fields physiological effects and instructing Do not stand under a UFO that is hovering at low altitudes Do not touch or attempt to touch a UFO that has landed Describes a legal challenge in which Arizona residents sued over the March 1997 sightings U.S District Court Judge Stephen McNamee Phoenix ruled on March 30 2000 that a reasonable search was conducted by the Defense Department which found no records and dismissed the case PAGE 92 Organizational profile of NARCAP National Aviation Reporting Center for Anomalous Phenomena established November 2000 led by Chief Scientist Dr Richard Haines compiler of a 3,400+ case catalogue of aviation-related UAP incidents and Executive Director Ted Roe describes NARCAP's mission to document UAP effects on pilots crew cockpit instrumentation and air-traffic control while remaining agnostic on the phenomena's ultimate nature/origin and provides contact information admin@narcap.org www.narcap.org a public UAP-encounter reporting line PAGE 93 Wire-service item UFO Shuts Down Russian Airport Agence France Presse Moscow January 27 2001 via Interfax an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft crew refused to take off from Barnaul airport in southern Siberia after seeing a luminescent object hovering above the runway a second cargo crew diverted to another airport for the same reason local aviation company director Ivan Komarov confirmed the report the object departed and the airport reopened after roughly 90 minutes PAGE 94 Closing biographical page for journalist Leslie Kean author of the reprinted press pieces on pages 87-91 radio host/producer of Flashpoints on KPFA 1998-2001 print bylines in the Boston Globe Baltimore Sun Sacramento Bee Minneapolis Star Tribune The Nation San Francisco Bay Guardian Providence Journal International Herald Tribune Sydney Morning Herald VSD France and the Irish Independent among others author/co-author of books including Burma's Revolution of the Spirit Aperture 1994 with Alan Clements director of The Burma Project USA since 1991 recipient of Fund for Investigative Journalism grants 1996-1998 and a Project Censored Honorable Mention 1998 Note pages 83-86 contain a French-language bibliography/reference list page 86 repeats verbatim the closing dedication text already given on page 82-83 These sections are summarized above rather than transcribed in full as they are citation lists rather than narrative content End of document at page 94 of 94