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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Het Oosten
Het Cometa-rapport is anders vrij duidelijk én wetenschappelijk.
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Wetenschappelijk ? Peer reviewed ? Empirisch bewijs ?
Het enige dat duidelijk is, is dat het instituut met wiens naam die 'studie' zich legitimiteit wou geven zich krachtig distantieert van dit initiatief.
Citaat:
COMETA (COMité d'ÉTudes Approfondies; "Committee for In-Depth Studies") was an unofficial French UFO study organisation from the late 1990s, composed of high-ranking officials and military officers. The study was carried out over several years by an independent group of auditors and former auditors at IHEDN (Institut des hautes études de défense nationale; "the Institute of Advanced Studies for National Defence"), a French military think-tank, and 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. The authors also accused the United States government of engaging in a massive cover-up of the evidence.
Although it drew on government-funded research, the COMETA Report was not solicited by the French government in any manner whatsoever. Immediately afterwards, however, French magazine VSD referred to it as an "official report", a label it has continued to carry in UFO-nut circles.[1]
IHEDN also took pains to disassociate itself from the report. "According to Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Bayle, head of the Communication Service of IHEDN, 'The Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence wishes to make it clear that statements made by these individuals only engage them, and them alone, and are in no way a reflection of the thoughts of IHEDN, which has no special element of information on this topic.'"
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bron :
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/COMETA