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This 1998 NASA file holds UFO-related letters from constituents that were forwarded by members of Congress, together with NASA's handling records. Senator Olympia Snowe forwarded letters from Maine residents, including a 12-year-old who asked for Roswell documents and listed a number of reported sightings. Senator Charles Grassley forwarded a question about astronaut UFO sightings. NASA's reply says it has no UFO program and has not withheld anything. The reply enclosed a NASA fact sheet and James Oberg's article, which explains the Gemini-4 McDivitt object as the spacecraft's own booster.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Released with redactions. This collection of documents, primarily from 1998, contains draft and final correspondence from the White House and the offices of members of Congress responding to constituent inquiries about Unidentified Flying Objects, or “UFOs.” These inquiries cover a diverse range of topics, including alleged UFO sightings by NASA astronauts, questions regarding the authenticity of photos collected during U.S. missions to Mars, alleged improper withholding of information by the U.S. Government, questions regarding the appropriateness of “UFO-related” governmental spending, and calls for congressional hearings regarding the nature and existence of “UFOs.” The official responses consistently state that, circa 1998, the U.S. Government is not aware of evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial technology, and that NASA does not actively investigate “UFOs.” The collection includes references to materials of both confirmed and unconfirmed authenticity, as provided by constituents, as well as references to historical, scientific literature addressing specific “UFO” sighting claims.
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. ( Author: (b)(o) <(b) (6) ~ at internet Dat_e~ 7/6/98 04:14 PM Priority: Normal TO: chuck grassley at Grassley-DC Subject: Message from a Voter Greetings Honorable Senator Grassley, I have recently encountered a number of new and interesting tidbits of i nf ormation concet"oing letters T hovo previ~unJy written to you i n regard of the UFO phenomenon that seems to be happeni ng in the United State s as well as the rest of the world. I greatly appreciate all the i n f ormation you have led me to through our past correspondence . I am hoping you c an help me track down a few more specific things. Here is a something I heard from someone I was corresponding with: 11 0n Sunday, August 10, 1997 at around 9:45am CDT, I was wat-ching TV and switched to the NASA channel f or news of the ongoing shuttl e mission . At the time, they were broadcasting a nighttime view of Earth. As I watched, I was surprised to see a light rising vertically from the bottom of the screen where Earth was displayed. As it continued to rise vertically (relative to the TV screen), the shuttle camera clearly began to track the l i ght and kept the picture centered on it . "After it rose well above the horizon of Earth, the light made an apparent 90 - degree turn to the r ight (again relative to the screen) and continued off in that direction . The shuttle camera continued to track the object a nd began to zoom i n for a closer l ook. At that point NASA cut off the feed from the external camera and displayed the Houston space center instead. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared to record this on my VCR. The entire episode lasted l ess than a minute, so I was unable to get the VCR ready i n time." I am also interested in any information that can be relayed about the Groom Lake Area , also know as Area 51, or Dreamland, and an area known as Area S-4. The media has stated t hat these areas in the Nevada desert are testing grounds for US "Black Projects". I believe that vehicles such as the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Stealth Fighter where tested here. The gove rnment to date denies the existence of such places, even though I have in my possession of several videotapes, pictures, and e ven a Russian satellite image showing the area. Does such a place exist? Or at leas t , are you, the Air Force, or NASA, whoever happens to be in control of the site willing to tell us that is does exist. It is my understanding that the Nellis Air Force Base surrounds Area 51, so I imagine that t he Air force is the one who has jurisdic tion over the Area. Many people including Bob Lazar, Bill Uhouse, and the father of a guy I work wi t h all claim to have worked in this secret area, and have seen and worked on craft o f an alien origin . Bill Ohouse claims that both President Nixon, and Bush visited the Area 51 facility to examine the progress of recreating alien technology. He also claims that the project was going on with the aid of an alien "gray" known as Jarod (JAY-rod). If there is any t ruth to thei r claims and the claims of many others, I woul d wonde r why such a spectacular secret would be kept from us, and why the aliens would not have made themselves known to t he general populace of Eart h . Please do not just send me another list of Project Blue Book documents, a nd I have already seen the censored files released by the CIA . These documents have been censored so all that they do is bring more suspicion toward the government, and they just make me think even more that someone is hiding something. The thing I can "t figure out is why.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 86 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.