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This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0474-F) holds a folder titled [UFO] from the Agency Liaison records. It contains 1996 letters that members of the public, including students, sent to President Clinton asking about UFOs, a cover-up and the 1947 Roswell incident. NASA public affairs official Laurie Boeder replied on July 17, 1996 that no government agency investigates UFOs. The replies enclosed a February 1996 NASA fact sheet on Project Blue Book, the Condon study and SETI.
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NASA FactsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC 20546 (202) 358-1600 FS-1996-02-017-HQ For Release February 1996 THE US GOVERNMENT AND UNIDENTIFIED FL YING OBJECTS No branch of the United States Government is currently involved with or responsible for investigations into the possibility of alien life on other planets or for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's). The US Air Force (USAF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have had intennittent. independent investigations of the possibility of alien life on other planets; however, none of these has produced factual evidence that life exists on other planets, nor that UFO's are related to aliens. From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated UFO's; then in 1977, NASA was asked to examine the possibility of resuming UFO investigations. After studying all of the facts available, it was determined that nothing would be gained by further investigation, since there was an absence of tangible evidence. In October 1992, NASA was directed by Congress to begin a detailed search for artificial radio signals from other civilizations under the NASA Towards Other Planetary Systems (TOPS)/High RcsoluUon Microwave Survey (HRMS) program (also lmown as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project). Congress directed NASA to end this project in October 1993. citing pressures on the US Federal budgel. The HRMS did not detect any confinncd signal before it was stopP.ed. However, similar work will continue in a more limited manner through eITorts of private groups and through academic institutions. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence InsUtute (SETI Institute) in Mountain View, CA. effectively replaced the Government project. borrowing the signal processing system from NASA. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit. corporation conducting research in a number of fields including all science and technology aspects of astronomy and planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the origin of life, biological evolution, and cultural evolution. During several space missions, NASA astronauts have reported phenomena nol immediately explainable; however. in every instance NASA determined that the observations could not be termed "abnormal" in the space environment. The 1947 to 1969 USAF investigations studied UFO's under Project Blue Book. -MORE- REPRODUCED AT GOVT. EXPENSE
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 48 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.