The COMETA Report

COMETA was a high-level French UFO study organisation from the late 1990s, composed of high-ranking officers and officials, some having held command posts in the armed forces and aerospace industry. The name "COMETA" in English stands for "Committee for in-depth studies." The study was carried out over several years by an independent group of mostly former "auditors" at the Institute of Advanced Studies for National Defence, or IHEDN, a high-level French military think-tank, and by various other experts.

The group was responsible for the 'COMETA Report' (1999) on UFOs and their possible implications for defence in France. The report concluded that about 5% of the UFO cases they studied were utterly inexplicable and the best hypothesis to explain them was the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). The authors also accused the United States government of engaging in a massive cover-up of the evidence.

The 'COMETA Report' was not solicited by the French government, although before its public release, it was first sent to French President Jacques Chirac and to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Immediately afterward, a French weekly news and leisure magazine called VSD referred to it as an "official report", though technically this wasn't the case since COMETA was the work of a private, non-profit, ufological study group. Skeptic Claude Maugé wrote about this: "By letter dated 23 February General Bastien, of the Special Staff of the President of the Republic, wrote: 'To answer your question, this report compiled by members of an association organised under the law of 1901 (ruling most non-commercial private associations in France) did not respond to any official request and does not have any special status'."

The report drew largely on the research of GEPAN / SEPRA, a section of the French space agency CNES, unique in being the only official French government-sponsored organisation to investigate UFOs. The birth of GEPAN / SEPRA in the mid-1970s was in large part due to the intense wave of high strangeness UFO sightings in France in 1954.

English version of COMETA Report

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[rccarrillo1]

What show was this on??

[idStarfleet]

@rccarrillo1 Not entirely sure, it was either in I Know What I Saw, or Out of the Blue. The narrator is James Fox, he directed these documentaries.

[yowzephyr]

The COMETA Report has class. This video has class. I guess that's why it doesn't have a whole lot of views.

[jeromeT1020]

@rsouthern amen brotha. I think it is totally ridiculous that Eywitness testimony from credible people gets ignored when it has to do with UFO but if thoses same people say they witnessed a murder it would be enough to get someone the chair.

[Severe777]

@jeromeT1020 Well said.

[bmw200000]

UFO Disclosure Soon.

[GuardianXxXxXAngel]

I have found the same UFO in two videos on youtube, 2 minutes 50 seconds into this video and here.

video #002.. . 11 minutes 02 seconds into the video

on youtube

watch?v=bTqE805dhOE&feature=pl­ayer_detailpage#t=657s

[sevensevenification]

Hypothesis!? Really? Stupid dumb scientist that need proof, we are the proof!

[kevinearles1]

@jeromeT1020

Dude the system is all fucked up and geared to fit situations they need it to. An example is that a woman can simply call the police and say you were touching her and they will cuff you and put you in jail, before they even know if it's true. Yet, if you claim to see something that is perfectly logical in science, they will call you crazy or lock you away, even if you are an official. So, the random person's testimonial has worth then the governor who reports a craft in a field?