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.
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.
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*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.*
- 255_413270_UFO's_and_Defense_What_Should_we_Prepare_ForNASA via PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026)
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- In Plain Sight: An Investigation Into UFOs and Impossible ScienceRoss Coulthart
- UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out ThereGarrett M. Graff
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