Bonjour mes amis. It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for another UFO documentary presentation. This week I’m going to pull from the work of TWiUPs newest contributor. David Kroning II has joined our merry men and this week produced two very thought provoking efforts UFO's and Extraterrestrials: Cutting through the BSand the work that will be the focus of todays featureSacre Bleu! UFOs and the French COMETA Report
The French study, known as the COMETA Report was conducted for similar reasons, namely the desire to understand better a phenomenon that constituted a potential threat to French National Defense.
Conducted from 1990-1999 (now available in English translation and linked below), the COMETA Report is remarkable for a number of reasons.
First, it was composed of an independent, extra-governmental, committee made up of former "auditors" from the Institute of Advanced Studies for National Defense, or IHEDN, and by qualified experts from various scientific fields touching on the phenomenon.
Second, these auditors and scientific experts did not waste their time with demonstrating explanations for 95% of UFO sightings, rather they focused specifically on the 5% of sightings that were absolutely without a doubt within the realm of the inexplicable.
What really sets the French COMETA report apart from those done by the US and Britain, however, is its extraordinary conclusion. After four years of exhaustive research the committee concluded in a report sent to then President Jacques Chirac in 1999, that UFO's (known asOVNI's in French) are "real," and the only logical explanation is that they are of "extraterrestrial origin" and, indeed, they do represent "a possible threat to the French National Security."
Sacre Bleu! UFOs and the French COMETA Report