From: Gildas Bourdais <GBourdais@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:59:32 EDT
Fwd Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:59:46 -0400
Subject: Re: IHEDN Report


>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:24:55 -0700
>From: Larry Hatch <larryhat@jps.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: IHEDN Report

>>From: Gildas Bourdais <GBourdais@aol.com>
>>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:35:17 EDT
>>Subject: Re: IHEDN Report
>>To: updates@globalserve.net

>>>From: Thierry Wathelet <ufocom@skynet.be>
>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>>Subject: Re: IHEDN Report
>>>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:55:40 +0200

>>I am pleased to confirm all the information given by Thierry
>>Wathelet.

>>The report was on the French newstands this morning, and I think
>>we can say that it is a very positive event for ufology, in
>>France and internationaly.

>>The title is in fact:

>>'Les OVNI et la Défense. A quoi doit-on se préparer?'

>>The literal translation is:

>>"UFOs and Defence. What must we get prepared for?"

>>The name of the group which wrote this report is "COMETA", so it
>>should be referred to as the 'COMETA Report', to be accurate.

>>Members of COMETA include Air Force generals Denis Letty and
>>Bruno Le Moine, Admiral Marc Merlo, Professor André Lebeau,
>>former President of CNES, and the report is prefaced by General
>>Bernard Norlain, former Director of IHEDN (Institute of Higher
>>Defence Studies). An impressive team for an "independant"
>>report.

>>This report confirms as "quasi certain" the reality of UFOs, and
>>considers as very probable the UFO crash near Roswell!

>>There are a nice couple of pages on the mechanism of
>>disinformation, at the end of this very serious and well
>>documented report.

>>Let's see now if it has any impact in the media.

>>I want to thank publicly here the action of journalist Bernard
>>Thouanel who has been at the core of this excellent operation.


>Dear Gildas and Thierry:

>Will there be someplace on the internet where we can see the
>actual report in full?

>Could the pages possibly be scanned,  and possibly OCR'ed into
>text files?


Dear Larry:

I have checked this afternoon with journalist Bernard Thouanel
of VSD: the text will not put on the Internet.

The copyright belongs to the group, named COMETA, but the
address is not given in the publication.

Thouanel tells me that any infringement on the copyright may
well be sued by the group (they have a good international lawyer
among them, Michel Algrin).

I intend to write this week a summary of the contents in
English, but before sending it I will pass it to Thouanel and he
will have it checked by one of the members, presumably the head
of the group, general Letty. You see, they don't want any fancy
presentation of their report, and for my part, I am going to
respect that.

I proposed this text to Michael Lindeman for CNI News, and just
after I will send a copy to UFO Updates.

For a paper copy of the report, see the address already given by
Thierry Wathelet. If you have a problem, please ask me.

Best regards,
Gildas Bourdais