French COMETA Defense Study Paired With Von Braun Statement

Brief

The file bundles two distinct items under a single NASA disclosure release. The primary document is an independent UFO study produced by the French association COMETA, originally published in the magazine VDS in 1999, which presents findings from a study conducted through the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence. The secondary item is a letter from Carol Rosin in which she states she served as spokesperson for rocket engineer Wernher von Braun during the final years of his life. The PDF is scanned with no OCR layer, so specific findings, conclusions, and quotes cannot be extracted or verified from the source pages as provided.

Metadata

Agency

NASA

Release

5/8/26

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

94 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

COMETA, Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence

Tags

COMETA, France, 1999, national defense study, von Braun connection, Carol Rosin, foreign government report

Key points

• The primary document is the 1999 COMETA report on UAP, framed as an independent study with ties to the French Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence.
• COMETA's report was originally published in the French magazine VDS in 1999, giving it public provenance predating the US disclosure timeline by over two decades.
• A letter from Carol Rosin is included in which she attests to her role as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life, connecting the document to von Braun's post-NASA legacy.
• The file was released by NASA as part of the May 2026 declassification tranche, signaling institutional acknowledgment of a foreign defense-adjacent UFO study.
• No OCR text is present; the PDF is entirely scanned image pages, making independent quote verification impossible from this release.

Most interesting

• COMETA (Comité d'Études Approfondies) was a private French organization whose membership drew from the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence, giving a civilian-published document an implicit national-security pedigree.
• Carol Rosin worked directly with Wernher von Braun, the architect of the Saturn V rocket program; her letter's inclusion alongside a foreign UAP report implies her testimony was considered institutionally relevant to the disclosure package.
• The original VDS publication in 1999 made the COMETA findings publicly available in France years before UAP became a formal US legislative concern, raising questions about why this foreign study warranted NASA custody.
• The pairing of a European defense-study document with an American aerospace insider's personal letter in a single NASA file suggests the compiler was assembling a chain-of-custody record connecting government-adjacent UAP research across national boundaries.