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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.
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ARMS Email System Page 1 of2 RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL) CREATOR: Steven J. Isakowitz ( CN=Steven J. Isakowitz/OU=OMB/0=EOP [ OMB ] ) CREATION DATE/TIME:10-JUL-1997 10:58:04.00 Mars Air Force Denies UFO CrashSUBJECT: FYI TO: Anthony B. Wu ( CN=Anthony B. Wu/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: liam_sarsfield ( liam_sarsfield © rand.org © inet [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: space ( space © rand.org © inet [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: J C. Crutchfield ( CN=J C. Crutchfield/OU=OMB/O=EOP © EOP [ OMB ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: Jefferson Hofgard ( CN=Jefferson Hofgard/OU=OSTP/O=EOP © EOP [ OSTP ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: aladwig ( aladwig © hq.nasa.gov © inet [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: doberman ( doberman @ hr.house.gov © inet [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: Christopher R. Ulrich ( CN=Christopher R. Ulrich/O=OVP © OVP [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN TO: Sdale ( Sdale © hr.house.gov © inet [ WHO ] ) READ:UNKNOWN General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft". TEXT: AIR FORCE DENIES STORIES OF UFO CRASH The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Valles Marineris Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases". Minutes later. General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report. TO: brody ( brody © hq.nasa.gov © inet [ UNKNOWN ] ) READ:UNKNOWN
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.