USIA paper — 'UFO's and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?' (1968)

U.S. Information Agency policy paper considering whether UFO phenomena required structured national-defense preparation. A rare late-Cold-War USIA contribution to the UAP question.

What we know

Record type: Report
Primary source: linked
Named witnesses: 0
Media: 1

This file contains an independent report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA (previously published in the French magazine VDS in 1999), which details the results of a study by the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence. The file also includes a letter from Carol Rosin in which she notes that she was spokesperson for von Braun during the last years of his life.

**Released as part of PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026).** The Department of War published the following primary-source records:

- **255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_For** (NASA, 1965-06-15) — 94 pages.

Source integrity: SHA-256 `2af37a8e08174de4…`

*Skeleton import — comprehensive narrative analysis pending. Sources are linked above; OCR-extracted text from the page images is available in the [PURSUE Open Atlas dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alex-zhang42/ufo-pursue-open-atlas) (CC0).*

### From the declassified record

**Description:** cylindrical object

*Direct excerpt from the declassified document. Full document linked above.*

Source documents

255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_For

NASA via PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026)

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