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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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PAGE 05 RUENAAA3414 UNCLAS STORAGE TANK. "THIS IS THE FIRST DIRTY SITE GONE CLEAN," SAID THOMAS MACCHIARELLA, OF THE NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND, SOUTHWEST DIVISION. "NAVAL TRAINING CENTER SAN DIEGO ... HAS COMPLETED THE CLEANUP PROCESS TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE REGULATORY COMMUNITY AND IS NOW READY FOR REUSE." THE CLEANUP SITE CONTAINED A 60 GALLON TANK USED FOR STORING FUEL FOR A GENERATOR AT THE MEDICAL CLINIC. THE TANK WAS REMOVED FROM THE SITE IN APRIL, 1994. ANALYSIS OF SOIL SAMPLES DETERMINED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS HAD LEAKED FROM THE TANK INTO THE GROUND. THE CLEANUP BEGAN IN DECEMBER 1994 WITH THE REPLACEMENT OF THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WITH CLEAN SOIL. "ONE HUNDRED TONS OF SOIL WAS EXCAVATED AND TREATED OFF-SITE USING THERMAL DESORPTION," MACCHIARELLA SAID. "THEN [THE SOIL WAS] USED AS FILL AT VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE SAN DIEGO AREA." THE THERMAL DESORPTION PROCESS HEATS SOIL TO A TEMPERATURE THAT EVAPORATES THE OIL BY-PRODUCTS AND RECAPTURES THEM. TWELVE SITES ARE CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THE INVESTIGATION AND CLEANUP PAGE 06 RUENAAA3414 UNCLAS PROCESS AND WILL BE COMPLETED BY 1998. "THIS CLEANUP WAS VERY COST-EFFICIENT BECAUSE WE PIGGY-BACKED ON OTHER UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK CLEANUP PROJECTS TO LOWER THE COST," MACCHIARELLA SAID. THE CLEANUP WAS COMPLETED FOR APPROXIMATELY $60,000. (THIS STORY APPEARED IN THE NAVY WIRE SERVICE AS NWSA1726) -USN- NNS1105. NAVAL HISTORY AVAILABLE ON INTERNET WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A NEW NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER (NHC) HOMEPAGE GIVES IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO OFFICIAL NAVAL HISTORICAL INFORMATION TO INTERNET USERS. THE INTERNET ADDRESS IS THE HOMEPAGE GREW FROM INQUIRIES REGARDING NAVAL HISTORY FROM THE FLEET AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC OVER THE YEARS. POPULAR TOPICS RANGED FROM THE EVOLUTION OF NAVAL AIRCRAFT MARKINGS TO THE UFO RESEARCH GUIDE, BIOGRAPHIES, FACT SHEETS ON THE CURRENT AIRCRAFT INVENTORY, PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCES AND EVEN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE. OTHER INFORMATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ACTIVE SHIP LEVELS FROM 1917 TO PRESENT, AVIATION SQUADRON LINEAGES AND ORDERING INFORMATION FOR NHC BT #3414 NNNN UNCLAS //N05780// SECTION 04 OF 05 PUBLICATIONS. COMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS AND SERVICES OFFERED BY THE CENTER'S
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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.