Documents / Official release
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.
“National Academy of Sciences”1 page
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BONN FOR NPSU MUNICH FOR B/NM; PLEASE PASS RFE/RL E.O. 12356: N/A TAGS: PROP, PHUM, SCUL, AJ SUBJECT: BAKU MEDIA TIDBITS UNSUCCESSFULLY -- TO KEEP THE PROGRAM SCHEDULE SECRET. 16. IN ORDER TO GAIN SPONSORSHIP BY QASID, AZERBAIJANI RADIO AND TV GAVE IT THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO NEGOTIATE PLACEMENT OF THE STATE TV AND RADIO PROGRAM SCHEDULES IN OTHER LOCAI,MEDIA. "QASID" WARNED THE AZERBAIJANI MEDIA THAT IT WOULD SUE ANY WHICH PRINTED UNAUTHORIZED AZTV PROGRAM SCHEDULES AND THREATENED TO STOP DISTRIBUTING THE "GUILTY" PAPERS. SINCE QASID HAS A QUASI-MONOPOLY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRINTED MEDIA IN BAKU, THIS WAS NO IDLE THREAT. 17. "AYNA/ZERKALO" (SISTER WEEKLIES WHOSE NAME MEANS "MIRROR" IN AZERBAIJANI AND RUSSIAN) PROPOSED TO BUY THE PERMISSION FROM QASID, BUT THE ANSWER WAS NEGATIVE. WHEN AYNA/ZERKALO EDITOR RAUF TALISHINSKY ARGUED THAT THIS VIOLATED THE LAW ON MASS MEDIA, HE SAID AGAKISI ISMAYLOV, HEAD OF QASID, RESPONDED THAT THE SCHEDULES COULD BE REGARDED AS COMMERCIAL SECRETS. 18. QASID'S UNWILLINGNESS EVEN TO SELL THE LOGS TO OTHER MEDIA IS UNDERSTANDABLE, SINCE THIS LEAVES PEOPLE WITH NO CHOICE BUT TO BUY EKRAN-EFIR. ITS CIRCULATION TODAY HAS REACHED 120,000, WHICH IS UNPRECEDENTED IN AZERBAIJAN. 19. TALISHINSKY TOLD US QASID'S MONOPOLY CANNOT GO ON FOREVER: AYNA/ZERKALO IS DEVELOPING AN INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WHICH ALREADY HANDLES MORE THAN A FIFTH OF THE TWO PAPERS' COMBINED CIRCULATION OF 32,000. AYNA/ZERKALO PLANS TO COMBINE ITS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH "YEDDI GUN" (SEVEN DAYS), ANOTHER WEEKLY. TALISHINSKY HAS NEGOTIATED WITH THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS TO MAKE SURE POLICE WILL NOT OPPOSE SALES IN THE STREETS AND IN METRO STATIONS. (STREET VENDORS ARE FORBIDDEN UNDER THE STATE OF EMERGENCY REGIME IN FORCE IN BAKU. HOWEVER, THE STREETS ARE FILLED WITH VENDORS.) "SATELLITE WARS" 20. BROADCASTS BY AZERBAIJANI STATE TV IN NAXCIVAN STOPPED JAN 3 WHEN RUSSIA'S SPACE COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION SUSPENDED AZERBAIJAN'S PERMISSION TO USE A RUSSIAN COMMUNICATION SATELLITE BECAUSE OF A 430-MILLION RUBLE (NOW ABOUT USD 100,000) DEBT FOR 1994 TRANSMISSIONS OF AZTV'S PROGRAMS TO NAXCIVAN. AFTER THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS PAID 300 MILLION RUBLES (ABOUT USD 75,000) OF THE DEBT, THE RUSSIAN COMPANY RESUMED THE BROADCASTS ON JAN 11. (AZERBAIJAN BROADCAST ITS PROGRAMS TO NAXCIVAN VIA MICROWAVE RELAY THROUGH ARMENIAN TERRITORY. IN 1990,
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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.