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[09/15/1997 - 11/03/2000]: 24194021-20060527F-001-006-2023

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This Clinton Library release of Clinton Presidential Records covers the National Security Council email folder labeled Area 51, dated September 15, 1997 to November 3, 2000. It lists withdrawn emails, most held back for national security or privacy reasons. Some emails were released. They include November 1997 talking points on the President renewing a classified information exemption for the Air Force site near Groom Lake, Nevada, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Other released items are news clippings about Lake Havasu grass circles and UFO requests to the NSA.

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DATE-TIME 10/6/98 8:48:32 PM
FROM Marsh, Thomas S
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TEXT BODY AEarthy explanation offered for mysterious Lake Havasu circles<
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) Green circles that have been
cropping
up in a grassy amphitheater in Rotary Community Park had
early-morning
walkers fluttering their fingers to simulate a
descending spaceship.
With a secret military operation only a couple of hours' drive
north
Nellis Air Force Base's Area 51, many were wondering about
the
circles' origin.
One walker claimed he had seen an Air Force
truck pull into the
park, its driver snap some photographs, then
leave. Others claimed
to have heard mysterious noises after 10 p.m.,
the park's closing
time.
But there's a very earthy answer,
says Bart Wagner, parks
division manager of the city's parks and
recreation director.
Mushrooms.
"They're just like the
fairy rings in Rip Van Winkle, which he
entered and fell asleep
for 20 years," said Larry Mick, Lake
Havasu High School biology
and physical sciences teacher.
Just doesn't cut it [UNCLASSIFIED]
Sanborn, Daniel R. K.
Dean, Susan W.
Starks, Tali T.
Hasman, Thomas M.

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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 37 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.