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This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.
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MUfON UfO JOURNAL July 1997 Bright Planets (£Venlng Sky): Venus (magnitude -3.9) continues to lie low in the WNW at twilight and sets about an hour and a half after the Sun. The dazzling planet can be seen 5° above the crescent Moon on the 6th and 10 above the star Regulus on the 22nd. It forms a compact group with the star and the planet Mercury on the 25th. Binoculars help in viewing all of these low-altitude pairings. Mars (0.8). in Virgo, is low in the SWat dusk. setting about 11 :30 PM in mid-july. The ruddy object lies only 1.80 below the quarter Moon on the 11 tho Jupiter (-2.8). in Capricornus. rises in the E.SE. about 9:30 PM in midmonth and advances across the southern sky during the night. Bright Planets (Morning Sky); jupiter moves to the SSW by dawn. Saturn (0.6), in Pisces. rises in the E. about midnight in mid-July. It is well up in the SE. by dawn. The giant world can be found in the vicinity of the Moon on july 25. Pathfinder Lands on Mars: Exactly 21 years after Viking I executed the first soft landing on Mars, Mars Pathfinder is scheduled to repeat a Fourth of July landing at the mouth of an ancient dry water channel on the red planet. The probe's descent to the surface will be slowed by a number of mecha nisms--aerobraking. parachute. rockets. and finally a system of 24 airbags to cushion the impact of the final touchdown. While the lander images its surroundings, a 6-wheeled roving vehicle explores the surface around the site. The mobile device also photographs the ter rain and probes rocks and soil to determine their chem ical composition. Meteor Shower: The july Aquarids achieve their maximum on the morn ing of the 28th. a rate of about 20 per hour. Although a fat lunar crescent interferes somewhat, the observer should see the brighter members of the shower streak ing out of Aquarius in the S. Moon Phases: New moon-July 4 e() First quarter-July 12 full moon-july 19 o C)Last quarter-July 26 The Stars: At the end of evening twilight the summer constella tions gather around the celestial meridian in the S the Summer Triangle (parts of three constellations). Hercules (with its fine globular star cluster). Ophiuchus (large but dim, shaped like an Arab's tent). Scorpius, and Sagittarius. [n the N Draco the Dragon curls be twee.n the Big and Little Dipper. The spring patterns Leo. Virgo. Bootes - recede in the W. while in the E. a few autumn groups already appear abqve the horizon '- Capricornus, Pegasus. and Andromeda. June 21-22 - Joint UFO Seminar "1997 - 50 Years On" at Riverwood Legion Club in Sydney, Australia. For information con tact INUFOR, P.O. Box 783, Kogarah, N.S.W. 2217, Australia. June 21-22 - The UFO Seminar of the Year, Holiday Inn, North Haven, CT. For information. write Omega Communications, P.O. Box 2051. Cheshire, CT 06410-5051. June 26·28 - 18th Rocky Mountain UFO Conference at University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. For information contact Institute for UFO Research. 1304 So. College Ave .• Fort Collins. CO 80524 or call (970) 482·3731. July 1·6 - Third Annual Roswell Days, 50th Anniversary. For fur . ther information and schedule of events write to International UFO Museum, P.O. Box 2221, Roswell, NM 88202. July 11-13 -'- Twenty-eighth annual MUFON International UFO Symposium, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Theme: "The Fiftieth Anniversary of Ufology." For further information write to MUFON 1997 Symposium. 3628 Aragon Drive, Lansing. MI 48906·3508. August 3-8 - Ancient Astronaut Society 24th Anniversary World Conference at Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Orlando. Florida. For further information contact Ancient Astronaut Society, 1921 SI. John's Ave., Highland Park, IL 60035·3178. August 10-16 -International UFO Congress 1st Annual "Summer Seminars." Theme: Beyond Hale Bopp: Hidden Human History • Modern Suppression & Control· The Prophecies. Gold River Resort, Laughlin, Nevada. For information contact the UFO Congress. 9975 Wadsworth Parkway #K2-274. Westminster, CO 80020. Phone/Fax (303) 543·9943. September 6 - 34th National UFO Conference, The Marketplace, Springfield, Ohio. For information write to National UFO Conference, P.O. Box 375, Springfield, OH 45501·0375. September 13 & 14 - Seventh Annual UFO Conference at the Yokens Convention Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For information write to New Hampshire MUFON. P.O. Box 453. Rye, NH 03870. October 4 & 5 - Second Scandinavian ET Conference, Oslo, Norway. October 11 & 12 - "The UFO Experience" at Holiday Inn in North Haven, Connecticut. Contact Omega Communications, P.O. Box 2051, Cheshire, CT 06410. October 17-19 - Australian International UFO Symposium 1997 at Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Australia. For further information write to Glennys Mackay. P.O. Box 2183, Mansfield MC, Brisbane, OLD 4122. Australia. October 31 • November 2 - 4th Annual Tampa UFO Conference. June 1997 Number 350 Page 22 Camberly Plaza Hotel, Tampa. Florida. For information write Project Awareness, P.O. Box 730. Gull Breeze, FL 32562. November 22 & 23 - 5th Symposium on Ufology and Exobiology. Sindipetro, Santos, SP Brasil. For further information call 55 (043) 336.3719 or 55 (011) 5513.7107.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.