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This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.
This is a Clinton Presidential Library release under FOIA request 2006-0483-F, taken from the WHORM Alpha File folder "Greer, Q-Z [Stephen Greer]". It has withdrawal and redaction sheets for a partial one-page letter dated 08/10/1995 from Steven Greer to Mr. Dorskind, with parts withheld for personal privacy. In the letter, Greer says he has worked with Laurance Rockefeller for over 18 months and has given him a package of evidence to share with the President. He also offers to come to the JY Ranch to brief the President.
This file is a 1969 publication review package for 4600th Air Base Wing Supplement 1 to Air Force Regulation 80-17, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO), dated 10 January 1967. A review request form dated 17 March 1969 was answered on 4 April 1969, marking the supplement as requiring change. The supplement makes the Base Operations Officer responsible for investigating and reporting UFO sightings. Reports go to the Base Operations Dispatch Section and are sent by messenger to Hq ADC, Hq NORAD and the wing.
This US Air Force memorandum for the record comes from Lt. Col. Dominic A. Bartol, Chief of the Plans and Special Events Division, Command Directorate of Information, and is dated 3 September. It records a telephone report of a UFO from Paul Marston, a freelance photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Marston described at least four reports from the Exeter area that night. Among the witnesses were Norman J. Muscarello and police officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt, who saw a silent object with flashing red lights. The reports were passed to Pease AFB.
This FOIA release from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, case 082451CU, holds a White House correspondence tracking worksheet and letters from October 1994. The Ronald Reagan Library and the National Archives gave formal notice that they planned to open about 167 pages of Reagan Presidential records on UFOs and the "Operation Majestic 12" document on November 7, 1994, in answer to a FOIA request from Lee M. Graham. On October 24, 1994, White House Assistant Counsel Marvin Krislov replied that the Counsel's office had no objection to the release.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0474-F) contains White House correspondence from late 1994 and early 1995. Representative Collin C. Peterson forwarded a letter from constituent Tony Plumage asking for an executive order to declassify government information on UFOs. Susan Brophy of the White House replied on December 1, 1994. Her reply repeated a National Archives letter from Richard W. Peuser: the Project Blue Book records for 1947 to 1969 contain no reference to Roswell, and further questions should go to the Air Force. A Roswell petition flyer is also included.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (case 2006-0474-F) contains a White House correspondence tracking worksheet and an exchange of letters from January 1995. On January 18, 1995, documentary producer Samuel M. Sherman asked President Clinton for all government documents, photographs and film about Unidentified Flying Objects and extraterrestrial intelligence. Associate Counsel Marvin Krislov replied on January 27, 1995 that FOIA does not apply to the Office of the President. He concluded that FOIA gave Sherman no statutory right to any such records held there.
This scanned page comes from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and was released under FOIA request 2006-0483-F. It is an administrative marker sheet, not a textual record. It identifies a folder in the Clinton Presidential Records, Records Management subject file, with folder title FE010-01 and case number 118479CU, and gives its stack, row, section, shelf and position. The sheet contains no substantive content and reaches no conclusions.
This file, released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library under FOIA request 2006-0476-F, holds White House correspondence records for case 243544. In a July 8, 1997 letter to President Clinton, Kent Jeffrey of the International Roswell Initiative submitted more than 20,000 signed copies of the Roswell Declaration, which asks for an Executive Order declassifying UFO information. On December 9, 1997 the Air Force replied that such an order was unnecessary because declassification under E.O. 12958 was already underway.
This FOIA release (2006-0474-F) from the Clinton Presidential Records, Press Secretary office, contains a December 8, 1997 email to President Clinton from Joseph Sidney "Jody" Pendarvis of Bowman, South Carolina. Pendarvis invited the President to visit the UFO Welcome Center he built as a tourist attraction, a saucer-shaped structure 22 feet high and 42 feet across. The file includes three White House scheduling replies, dated January 12, January 26 and February 4, 1998, from Stephanie S. Streett. Each one declines the invitation.
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.
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.
This is a Clinton Library withdrawal and redaction sheet from the Clinton Presidential Records, NSC Cables collection, released under FOIA case 2006-0474-F. It records that a six-page cable dated January 11, 2001, titled "[KGB]" and filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO", was withheld. The restriction cited is P1/b(1), which covers national security classified information. The cable's contents are not included; the file holds only the withdrawal marker and the list of restriction codes.
This file is a 1999 set of email records from a federal records system, possibly released through FOIA. Most of the emails are broadcast messages from Joseph P. Firmage promoting his online book The Truth and the International Space Sciences Organization, which he founded to study propulsion, energy and consciousness. One message, from Ed Yardeni, concerns a World Economic Forum Y2K panel at Davos and notes that Firmage was originally on the panel. None of the emails describe a specific UFO sighting.
This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
This Clinton Presidential Library release holds NSC cables in a folder filed under "Flying Saucer or UFO" and dated February 1995 to May 1996. The withdrawal sheet shows three cables were withheld, among them "UFO Sighted" and "Paranormal Phenomena". The released cables include a US Embassy Baku media roundup and an FBIS summary of Peruvian television that mentions a UFO congress in Curitiba. An FBIS translation of Cuban radio reports a landed oval object near Torriente, Matanzas, and three objects seen over Sancti Spiritus in October 1995.
This file holds unclassified internal emails dated February 8 and March 18, 1996, from James E. Baker to public affairs and other staff, with brief replies. They give press guidance on a Wall Street Journal article and a 60 Minutes story about lawsuits over hazardous waste at the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, which the media called Area 51. The emails report that on March 6 the district court dismissed the suit against Perry, Lake and Widnall on state secrets grounds, and they describe President Clinton's disclosure exemption for the site.
This is a White House email release covering February 1998 to August 2000. It is a set of Exchange mail records with attachments. One item is the President's February 19, 1998 remarks to a DNC dinner in West Orange, New Jersey, which includes a joke that young people think seeing a UFO is more likely than drawing Social Security. Other items are a joke 'Redneck Driver's License Application', an AP story about Chilca, Peru, where locals credit UFOs for the mud's powers, a Blair Witch Project article, and a Baltimore Sun article forwarded by the White House Situation Room about UFO FOIA requests to the NSA.
This Clinton Presidential Library release collects NSC cables from February 1993 to November 1994 that were filed under the heading of flying saucers or UFOs. Five cables are withheld on national security grounds. A US Embassy Zagreb update from February 1993 reports Croatian press coverage of a Russian Ministry of Defense "UFO dossier." Two FBIS translations follow. One covers UFO-oriented sects in Peru and a sighting at Huaraz. The other covers UFOs that Interior Ministry personnel saw in Las Tunas Province, Cuba, on 29 October 1994.
This Clinton Presidential Library release (FOIA case 2006-0474-F) covers White House email from March 6 to 20, 1998, filed under UFO subjects. Most of the messages are public questions sent to the Millennium Evenings address. Several ask about UFO and extraterrestrial theories, including a request that Prof. Hawking expand on a UFO remark. A withdrawal sheet notes one partially redacted March 20 pager message titled "PLS Call UFO/Rep. Rangel," which was withheld in part for personal privacy.
This Clinton Presidential Library release from NSC email records, filed under Roswell, covers April 19 to November 30, 1995. In an April 1995 email, NSC staffer William Leary says the NSC holds no records on the 1947 Roswell incident and that any records would most likely be at the Archives. Later emails circulate drafts of President Clinton's Belfast Christmas tree lighting remarks. The final transcript includes his answer to 13-year-old Ryan: as far as he knows, no alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell in 1947.
This declassified internal email is dated 19 April 1995. It was sent over MS Mail by William H. Leary to Christina L. Funches, with William Danvers, Alan Kreczko and Joseph Sestak among those copied. It replies to a query about how to handle GAO request #2948. Leary writes that the NSC has no records on the 1947 Roswell incident and doubts that anyone on the NSC staff knows anything about it. He adds that any records would most likely be at the Archives.
This Clinton Presidential Library release gathers White House email records filed under "Area 51" and dated April 1995 to April 2000, with withdrawal sheets for five emails withheld on privacy or advisory grounds. The released messages include a 1995 tip about a UFO radio show and a 1997 exchange with the science advisor's office about a Good Morning America interview request. That request concerned claims that government employees were sickened by hazardous wastes at Area 51. Other items are forwarded news links and personal notes.
This unclassified cable from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs contains the transcript of a DoD news briefing that Kenneth H. Bacon gave at the Pentagon on June 24, 1997. Bacon calls himself the warm-up act to the Air Force's Roswell UFO report. He says Air Force investigations found natural or aircraft explanations for alleged UFO sightings. The rest of the briefing covers Khobar Towers, troops on the border, a meeting with Greek officials and base closures.
This Clinton Presidential Records email folder, released under FOIA 2006-0474-F, spans July 1997 to December 1999 and holds forwarded messages filed under UFO subjects. It includes a joke news story in which a Mars Air Force general dismisses a crash as a weather balloon, forwarded twice. It also holds a 1998 Skywatch International item, forwarded by CDR Will Miller, claiming the RAF tracked a 24,000 mph UFO off the UK coast. The last item is an Italian email to the White House.
This is a White House ARMS email record created on 11 July 1997. Philip Schuler of the University of Maryland, College Park sent it to Philip C. Droege at the Executive Office of the President. It forwards a satirical news item headlined "Air Force Denies Stories of UFO Crash." In the parody, a Mars Air Force general says an object that crashed near Ares Vallis was a weather balloon. Conspiracy theorists in the story call this a cover-up.
This FOIA release contains two unclassified MS Mail messages sent on 7 and 9 August 1996 by Thomas S. Marsh to four colleagues, each forwarding an Associated Press wire story. The first, from The Arizona Republic, reports the 1995 disappearance of truck driver Devin Williams near the Mogollon Rim and UFO enthusiasts' comparisons to Travis Walton's 1975 abduction claim. The second describes Crestone, Colorado, a New Age community known for UFO sightings and cattle mutilation reports.
This file holds two unclassified internal MSMail messages Thomas S. Marsh sent to four colleagues on August 7 and August 9, 1996. Each one forwards an Associated Press wire story. The first reports on the 1995 disappearance of truck driver Devin Williams in Arizona's Rim country and compares it with Travis Walton's 1975 abduction claim, which a state MUFON director disputes. The second describes Crestone and the Baca Grande in Colorado as a New Age community known for UFO sightings and cattle mutilations.
This is a Clinton Library withdrawal/redaction marker for an email with the subject "Area 51." Jody Struebing sent it on August 26, 1999 to Kathy Albee and several other recipients, and Paul Chester later forwarded it. Only the header of the one-page email is shown, including the sender, recipients, subject line and high importance flag. Its content is withheld under the P6/b(6) restriction, so the text gives no substantive information about Area 51.
This is a White House Office of the Press Secretary transcript of remarks by President Clinton and the First Lady at the lighting of the Christmas tree at Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland, on November 30, 1995. It was forwarded by email on August 28, 1998. Most of the speech is about the Northern Ireland peace process and children's letters. Answering a letter from a 13-year-old named Ryan, the President jokes that as far as he knows no alien spacecraft crashed in Roswell in 1947.
This is a Clinton Presidential Library release from the NSC email collection, filed under Area 51 and covering September 1997 to February 2000. It contains withdrawal sheets for redacted emails along with released messages. Staff are told not to use the term Area 51, and draft press guidance says the President renewed an exemption for the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from disclosure requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. One message jokes about jury duty summonses sending staff to Area 51.
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.
This is a set of Clinton White House emails from the presidential records system, dated September 1997 to February 1999. Two September 1997 faxes from Jonathan Orszag of the Office of Policy Development carry an AP report that Swissair said an unidentified wingless object passed about 50 yards from a Boeing 747 after it left Philadelphia. A January 1999 exchange asks "Where is UFO?" A February 1999 Mining Co. newsletter promotes an article debunking claims about a 1991 shuttle video.
This Clinton Presidential Library release is a folder of White House email records dated September 27, 1995 to November 25, 1998, filed under the subject heading UFO, Flying Saucer, Flying Object. It holds forwarded news items: a molester who posed as a space alien, Hillary Clinton comparing the Whitewater probe to a UFO obsession, a report on Philip Corso's Roswell book, a satirical Mars Air Force story, and a Swissair report of a near miss with an unidentified object. Withdrawal sheets show that two pager messages were redacted for personal privacy.
This is a Secretary of Defense public affairs message transcribing the Department of Defense news briefing that Assistant Secretary Kenneth H. Bacon gave at the Pentagon on November 22, 1994. Most of the briefing covers Secretary Perry's Thanksgiving trip to Haiti, NATO air strikes in Bosnia, Cuban migrants at Guantanamo Bay and the Black Hawk shootdown cases. Asked about lawsuits over the Nellis Air Force Base complex, also known as Area 51, Bacon said some projects there are classified and will remain so.
This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0483-F), filed under Stephen Greer, holds a NASA letter dated July 17, 1996. Laurie Soeder, NASA Associate Administrator for Public Affairs, wrote it in reply to Dr. Steven M. Greer's May 1996 letter to President Clinton. The letter says no government agency investigates UFOs because there is no factual evidence of alien life. It encloses a February 1996 NASA fact sheet that summarizes Project Blue Book's conclusions and lists contacts, including the Air Force Roswell report.
This file from the Agency Liaison records in the Clinton Presidential Records contains a 1997 report by Steven M. Greer of CSETI on its Washington briefings of April 7 to 11, 1997. The report describes a closed briefing that nearly 30 congressional offices attended, a briefing at the Pentagon and a background briefing for the media. It calls for open congressional hearings with 107 identified government witnesses. The file also includes Mark McCandlish's 1989 cutaway drawing of an "Alien Reproduction Vehicle."
This is a CSETI Project Starlight comprehensive briefing document, prepared by Steven M. Greer, M.D., director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dated April 1997. It contains CSETI position papers arguing that the US government secretly holds extraterrestrial craft and that covert management of the subject threatens national security, along with letters to President Clinton seeking disclosure. It also includes government records, among them an FAA Charlotte Tower re-recording of a December 1977 police helicopter sighting.
This Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0474-F) holds a folder titled [UFO] from the Agency Liaison records. It contains 1996 letters that members of the public, including students, sent to President Clinton asking about UFOs, a cover-up and the 1947 Roswell incident. NASA public affairs official Laurie Boeder replied on July 17, 1996 that no government agency investigates UFOs. The replies enclosed a February 1996 NASA fact sheet on Project Blue Book, the Condon study and SETI.