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This Clinton Presidential Library release holds NSC cables in a folder filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and dated February 1995 to May 1996. The withdrawal sheet shows three cables were withheld, among them "UFO Sighted" and "Paranormal Phenomena". The released cables include a US Embassy Baku media roundup and an FBIS summary of Peruvian television that mentions a UFO congress in Curitiba. An FBIS translation of Cuban radio reports a landed oval object near Torriente, Matanzas, and three objects seen over Sancti Spiritus in October 1995.
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BLUE UNIFORMS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, NASA SELECTED TWIN BROTHERS TO JOIN THE PRESTIGIOUS ASTRONAUT CORPS. LT SCOTT KELLY IS A TEST PILOT WITH THE STRIKE AIRCRAFT TEST SQUADRON AND LT MARK KELLY IS AN INSTRUCTOR PILOT AT THE NAVY TEST PILOT SCHOOL, BOTH AT NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, MD. PAGE 03 RUENAAA3412 UNCLAS "I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS," SAID MARK. "I FEEL VERY FORTUNATE TO BE ACCEPTED. THE BONUS IS I GET TO GO DOWN THERE WITH MY BROTHER." THE 32-YEAR-OLD BROTHERS ARE FROM WEST ORANGE, N.J. THEY WILL REPORT TO THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTER IN HOUSTON IN AUGUST TO BEGIN TRAINING AS PROSPECTIVE SPACE SHUTTLE CREW MEMBERS. NASA RECEIVED MORE THAN 2,400 APPLICATIONS FOR THE 35 POSITIONS FILLED THIS YEAR. THE ASTRONAUT CLASS OF 1996 IS THE LARGEST IN THE AGENCY'S HISTORY. THE EIGHT OTHER NAVY OFFICERS IN THE ASTRONAUT CLASS OF 1996 INCLUDE: -- CDR DAVID M. BROWN OF RIDGE, MD. -- CDR LEE MORIN OF PENSACOLA, FLA. -- LCDR LAUREL B. CLARK OF PENSACOLA, FLA. -- LCDR STEPHEN N. FRICK OF CALIFORNIA, MD. -- LCDR JOHN B. HERRINGTON OF LEONARDTOWN, MD. -- LCDR WILLIAM C. MCCOOL OF ANACORTES, WASH. -- LCDR LISA NOWAK OF LEXINGTON PARK, MD. -- LCDR HEIDEMARIE STEFANYSHYN-PIPER OF ROCKVILLE, MD. (THIS STORY APPEARED IN THE NAVY WIRE SERVICE AS NWSA1725). PAGE 04 RUENAAA3412 UNCLAS -USN- PERSONNEL NOTES NNS1097. SELECTIVE REENLISTMENT BONUS LEVELS INCREASE BY LT KELLY WATSON, BUPERS PUBLIC AFFAIRS WASHINGTON (NNS) -- NEW SELECTIVE REENLISTMENT BONUS (SRB AWARD LEVELS TAKE EFFECT JUNE 1, 1996, UPDATING THE SRB AWARD LEVELS CONTAINED IN NAVADMIN 308/95 OF DEC. 18, 1995. NO POLICY CHANGES TO THE SRB PROGRAM WERE MADE IN THE LATEST MESSAGE (NAVADMIN 111/96). THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES CONTAINED IN NAVADMIN 066/91 AND NAVADMIN 308/95 REMAIN IN EFFECT. ALSO, THE SRB REENLISTMENT WINDOW, WHICH WAS EXPANDED LAST YEAR, STILL ENABLES SAILORS TO REENLIST ANY TIME WITHIN THE FISCAL YEAR OF END OF ACTIVE OBLIGATED SERVICE (EAOS) OR PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS) ORDERS. HOWEVER, BUPERS RECOMMENDS THAT SAILORS REENLIST AS CLOSE TO THEIR EAOS AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE SRB DOLLARS ARE CALCULATED BASED ON THE NUMBER OF MONTHS A SAILOR IS REENLISTING BEYOND HIS OR HER EAOS. IN THIS WAY, SAILORS CAN GET THE MOST OUT OF THEIR SRB DOLLARS. IN THE LATEST MESSAGE, 63 SRB AWARD LEVELS WERE INCREASED. PAGE 05 RUENAAA3412 UNCLAS THE LARGEST INCREASES WERE FOR PERSONNEL IN THE DS AND FC
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 35 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.