Documents / Official release
This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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DEPT PASS USAID/POPULATION/BARBARA CRANE USDOC PASS CENSUS USDA FAS FOR CMP, ARS, AND ERS STATE PASS USTR FOR CASSIDY AND POPOVICH E.O. 12958: N/A E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV, SOCI, ECON, EAGR, PGOV, NTDB, UNFPA, CH SUBJECT: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SUPPORTED STUDY "CHINESE RESOURCE TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY" [ZHONGGUO ZIYUAN TAISHI YU KAIFA FANGLUUE] BY HE XIYU ET AL, PUBLISHED BY HUBEI KEXUE JISHU CHUBANSHE] IN MAY 1997 IS ONE EXAMPLE. IN THE LOCAL PRESS: CHINESE LAW NEEDS PRIVACY CONCEPT; FLYING SAUCERS VISIT QUANZHOU --- CHINESE LAW NEEDS PRIVACY CONCEPT [QUANZHOU WANBAO, NOVEMBER 16, 1998] EVERYONE THINKS THAT THEY HAVE A SACRED RIGHT TO PRIVACY. BUT AN EXAMINATION OF CHINESE LAWS SHOWS THAT THERE IS NO MENTION OF A CITIZEN'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY. THIS IS A SERIOUS SHORTCOMING IN CHINA'S LEGAL SYSTEM. A WIDESPREAD PROBLEM TODAY IS IMPLEMENTING THE LAW ON LEGAL PROCEDURES. STRICT OBSERVANCE OF THIS LAW ON PROCEDURES IS AN IMPORTANT GUARANTEE OF THE FAIRNESS OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. SINCE CHINESE LAW DOES NOT HAVE THE CONCEPT OF A "RIGHT TO PRIVACY" LEGAL OFFICIALS CAN EASILY BECOME BIASED AS THEY WORK ON A CASE. THE PEOPLE HANDLING THE CASE MAY NOT RECOGNIZE PRIVATE AFFAIRS AS BEING PRIVATE. THIS MAKES IT HARDER TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE PERSON WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE CASE. SEE "IS THERE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY" AT HTTP://WWW.USEMBASSY-CHINA.GOV/ENGLISH/SANDT/PRIVLAW.HTML FOR A FULL TRANSLATION OF THIS ARTICLE. -- FLYING SAUCER REPORT [QUANZHOU WANBAO DECEMBER 17]: SEVERAL RESIDENTS OF NAN'AN, INCLUDING A JOURNALIST, SAW AN OVAL SHAPED WHITE, SHINY UFO IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SKY AT 11 PM ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 16. THE OBJECT DARKENED AS IT MOVED TO THE LEFT AND BRIGHTENED AS IT MOVED TO THE RIGHT. THE OBJECT STAYED IN SIGHT FOR TWO HOURS. [COMMENT: ACCORDING TO THE XIAMEN NEWSPAPERS, ANOTHER UFO VISITED THE XIAMEN AREA FURTHER SOUTH IN LATE NOVEMBER. UFOS ARE AS POPULAR IN CHINA AS THEY ARE IN THE UNITED STATES. X-FILES VIDEO DISCS AND STORIES ABOUT THE SUPPOSED ALIEN LANDING AT ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO CAN BE FOUND IN CHINESE STORES. THE LANZHOU MAGAZINE UFO RESEARCH [FEIDIE YANJIU] BOASTS THAT IT IS THE HIGHEST CIRCULATION UFO MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. END COMMENT] QUANZHOU ON THE INTERNET --- -- QUANZHOU EVENING NEWS [QUANZHOU WANBAO], THE QUANZHOU COMMUNIST PARTY COMMITTEE NEWSPAPER IN CHINESE AT HTTP://CITIES.FZ.FJ.CN/FUJIAN(UNDERSTRIKE)W/NEWS/FZB/INDEX.HTML THIS SITE IS UPDATED DAILY.
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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. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.