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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.
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THAT TRAINING HAS BEEN AT SOMEWHAT LOWER TEMPO THAN PAST YEARS, BUT IT HAS BEEN GOING ON, AND AS PART OF THAT TRAINING THERE HAVE BEEN MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS, ETC., AND VARIOUS TYPES OF TRAINING FLIGHTS. I'M NOT AWARE THAT THERE HAVE BEEN ANY UNUSUAL MOVEMENTS OR ANYTHING THAT HAS CAUSED US ANY PARTICULAR CONCERN. WE DO WATCH MOVEMENTS BY THE NORTH KOREAN MILITARY VERY, VERY CLOSELY. WE WATCH THEM ALL THE TIME, AND WE'VE VERY ALERT TO ANY CHANGES THAT COULD BE MENACING, BUT I'M NOT AWARE THAT WE HAVE SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. PRESS: THANK YOU. TRANSCRIPTS OF THE DOD NEWS BRIEFING ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON DEFENSELINK, THE DOD HOMEPAGE - HTTP://WWW.DTIC.MIL/DEFENSELINK/ SECT: SECTION: 01 OF 05 SECTION: 02 OF 05 SECTION: 03 OF 05 SECTION: 04 OF 05 SECTION: 05 OF 05 SSN: 8438 8439 8440 8441 8442 TOR: 970401190737 M2693319 970401190738 M2693320 970401190828 M2693322 970401190827 M2693321 970401190843 M2693323 DIST: SIT: NSC
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.