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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.
“Los Angeles Times”2 pages
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PREC: ROUTINE CLASS: UNCLASSIFIED LINE1: RAAUZYUW RUESPFA5251 2541735-UUUU--RHEHOND. LINE2: ZNR UUUUU LINE3: R 111735Z SEP 97 LINE4: FM FBIS (b)(3) OSRI: RUESPF DTG: 111735Z SEP 97 ORIG: FBIS (b)(3) TO: AIG 4674 RUEABND/DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN HQ WASHINGTON DC//POL// ACCT FBPA-EWDK INFO: ///// SUBJ: "Straight Talk" on 'UFO's, Another US Manipulation?' TEXT: UNCLAS 6A WARNING: TOPIC: POLITICAL, INTERNATIONAL SERIAL: (b)(3)109173597 PASS: ATTN (b)(3) COPY TO (b)(3) COUNTRY: CUBA, UNITED STATES SUBJ: "Straight Talk" on 'UFO's, Another US Manipulation?' REF: 1. (b)(3)1009161997 service -- reply to queries, processing request 2. (b)(3)1009032597 service -- queries, processing request SOURCE: Havana Radio Rebelde Network in Spanish 1730 GMT 3 Sep 97 TEXT: [FBIS Summary] Antonio Molto is the host and Ecuadorian journalist Christian Almeida Leon, coordinator of the UFO Research Program in Ecuador, is the main guest on today's "Straight Talk" program. (Alexis Slachter), science specialist for the Cuban media employed by Granma newspaper, and Osvaldo Rodriguez, a former "Straight Talk" host, are also guests in the discussion called: "UFO's, another US manipulation?" Rodriguez says he has learned there is evidence of the presence of UFO's in the world, but the explosion of a UFO in New Mexico in 1947 and the results of an autopsy performed on one of the humanoid bodies found at the site has been kept a secret by the Americans. Almeida adds: "There is a double standard by the US Government. On the one hand they discredit and ridicule the topic, but, on the other, they have commissions working on a government budget to conduct the investigations. It is an opportunity for them to have access to new technology, a contribution to their economy, of
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.