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This Clinton Presidential Library folder of NSC cables, filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and covering January to September 1997, holds several cables plus a withdrawal sheet listing three redacted items. A Tel Aviv embassy media report notes an Israeli cartoon about a January 5 UFO alert. An FBIS translation reports that a Colombian helicopter landed in Rubio, Venezuela, prompting UFO speculation. A DoD briefing transcript quotes Kenneth Bacon saying a CIA study found no evidence of UFOs, and an FBIS summary covers Cuban radio claims about the 1947 New Mexico crash.
“The Pentagon”18 pages
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PREC: PRIORITY CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED LINE1: PTTUZYUW RUEKJCS8438 0920005-UUUU--RHEHAAA RHEHWSR. LINE2: ZNR UUUUU LINE3: P 012307Z APR 97 FORWARD TO PAO LINE4: FM SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//ASD PA/DDI// OSRI: RUEKJCS DTG: 012307Z APR 97 ORIG: SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//ASD PA/DDI// TO: AIG 8775 INFO: ///// SUBJ: DOD NEWS BRIEFING - CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1997 AT TEXT: UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 SUBJ: DOD NEWS BRIEFING - CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1997 AT 1:30 P.M. BY MR. KENNETH H. BACON, ASD (PA) AT THE PENTAGON MR. BACON: GOOD AFTERNOON. IT'S APRIL FOOL'S DAY, AND OF COURSE I'M VERY GLAD TO BE WITH YOU ON THIS DAY. CASE, WHY IS THE FIRST DAY "FOOL'S DAY"? THAT'S THE QUESTION. Q: WOMEN HAVE BEEN MAKING FOOLS OF MEN FOR ALL ETERNITY, RIGHT? A: THERE'S PROBABLY NO RIGHT ANSWER TO THAT, BUT WE CAN START WITH THAT. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE AN ANSWER? Q: ONLY FOOLS FALL IN LOVE. A: THAT'S CERTAINLY A GOOD ANSWER. ANY OTHER ANSWERS? PAGE 02 RUEKJCS8438 UNCLAS Q: YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE US WITH... A: NO, I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER. THIS IS A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION HERE. THIS IS A DO-IT-YOURSELF BRIEFING. YOU GUYS COME UP WITH THE ANSWERS, AND SO FAR, IT'S BEEN PRETTY SHORT. SECONDLY, I WANT TO DEMONSTRATE OUR TECHNOLOGY HERE. TECHNOLOGY IN TWO WAYS. FIRST, OUR TECHNOLOGY TO SHOW YOU NEW TECHNOLOGY ON THE INTERNET. THAT'S THE SECOND PART. THIS IS GULFLINK. AS YOU CAN TELL, GULFLINK TODAY IS GOING INTERACTIVE, WHICH MEANS THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW, PEOPLE WHO LOG ONTO GULFLINK TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT GULF WAR ILLNESS PROGRAMS, FOR TREATING IT, RESEARCHING ITS CAUSES, AND MAKING INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, CAN SEND E-MAIL MESSAGES BACK AND GET ANSWERS. THEY MAY NOT ALWAYS GET THE ANSWERS THEY WANT OR THEY THINK THEY DESERVE, BUT THEY WILL GET RESPONSES QUICKLY, AND AS FULLY AS WE CAN GIVE THE RESPONSES. SO BRYAN WHITMAN IS GOING TO ILLUSTRATE THE PROGRAM HERE. THERE IS THE FORM, ACTUALLY, THAT YOU USE FOR REPORTING BACK IN ON MEDICAL CONDITIONS. YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A MEDICAL REPORT TO
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. 48 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.