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This Clinton Presidential Library release is a folder of White House email records dated September 27, 1995 to November 25, 1998, filed under the subject heading UFO, Flying Saucer, Flying Object. It holds forwarded news items: a molester who posed as a space alien, Hillary Clinton comparing the Whitewater probe to a UFO obsession, a report on Philip Corso's Roswell book, a satirical Mars Air Force story, and a Swissair report of a near miss with an unidentified object. Withdrawal sheets show that two pager messages were redacted for personal privacy.
ARMS Email System Page 1 of 1 RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (ALL-IN-1 MAIL) CREATOR: Kyle M. Baker ( BAKER_K ) (WHO) CREATION DATE/TIME:26-SEP-1997 13:25:15.29 SUBJECT: UFO NEARLY HIT 747 NEAR PHILADELPHIA, SWISSAIR SAYS ( IKEMIYASHI_D ) Autoforward to: Remote Add ( DAVIDT@pva.orgOINET ) ( dmartinOfeminist.orgOINET ) ( priscillaofeminist.org@INET ) ( clc2@Ra.MsState.Edu@INET@E0PMRX ) TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ TO: Diane Ikemiyashiro READ:NOT READ TEXT: Date: 09/26/97 Time: 13:18 BUFO nearly hit 747 near Philadelphia, Swissair says ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) An unidentified, wingless object traveling at high speed passed dangerously close to a Swissair jetliner between Philadelphia and Boston, the airline said Friday. The pilot and copilot gave U.S. investigators different descriptions of the object that passed about 50 yards from the Boeing 747 after it had taken off from Philadelphia on Aug. 9, said the airline. The pilot told the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board that the object as long and wingless, but the copilot said it was more spherical, Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer said. The incident took place at 23,000 feet. The plane's final destination was Zurich. APNP-09-26-97 1320EDT
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.