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FORMER CLINTON AIDE CALLS FOR END TO UFO SECRECY ohn Podesta, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff, recently spoke out in support of the effort to gain release of still-secret government UFO records. "It is time for the government to declas- sify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon." Podesta was a key member of the Clinton administration, which went to great lengths to obtain the answer to the UFO mystery. President Clinton's science advis- er Dr John Gibbons, for example, initiated an investigation by the US Air Force into the crash of an unknown object at Roswell, New Mexico. In 1993, Clinton's first CIA Director James Woolsey green-lighted a new CIA investigation into UFOs. Clinton himself asked his good friend Webster Hubbell to find out the truth about UFOs. Hillary Clinton, also very interested in the UFO phenomenon, helped Laurance Rockefeller edit a letter to President Clinton on UFOs, and was briefed on the UFO subject by Rockefeller at the Rockefeller ranch during the President's 1995 vacation there. The Podesta statement, announced at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, October 22, was part of an initiative by the Sci-Fi Channel in support of a new effort to gain release of secret government records on unidentified aerial phenomena. Besides offering up support for disclosure on UFOs, a new FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) initiative was announced, which included mention of the formation of the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI). The initiative is not setting out to prove the existence of aliens. Rather, the group wants to legitimise the scientific investigation of unexplained aerial phenomena. Specifically, the CFI is pressing the Air Force for documents involving Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly— clandestine operations reported to have existed decades ago to investigate UFOs and retrieve objects of unknown origins. The CFI director, Ed Rollins, also works for Podesta's public relations firm, Podestamattoon, which is coordinating the new group at the behest of the Sci-Fi Channel. He said the initiative was a call for serious investigation, not a publicity stunt for the cable network. "The Sci-Fi Channel has had an interest in [UFOs] for some time. The difference here is that they are focusing attention on the serious, factual side of the issue, and that scientists have not had a chance to thoroughly examine it," Rollins said. A Pentagon spokesperson could not be reached for comment. (Sources: Press release by Grant Cameron, http://www. presidentialufo.com; CNN.com, October 22, 2002) turbine vibration. 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Roughly 180 tons of ore than 16 years have passed _ enriched uranium were in the reactor. Had Me the disaster at the Chernobyl a large blast happened, half of Europe nuclear plant at 1.23 am on April would not currently be depicted on any 26, 1986. maps. Much has been written about the There are many theories to explain such Chernobyl disaster, both in Russia and luck. One of the theories is that there was abroad. It seems that the physical nature of help from a UFO. Some people say that the tragedy has been determined and the — when troublesome events started to occur, people responsible for it identified. they saw a spaceship hovering above the The fourth power-generating unit was fourth generating unit of the Chernobyl supposed to have been repaired. Yet, lant. before shutting it down, the plant's Eyewitnesses say that a UFO was there administrators decided to perform several for six hours and that hundreds of people experiments. Steam delivery was cut to saw it. People started writing about it only one of the turbogenerators in order to _ two years after the catastrophe. discover the period of time that electric Of course, such information appeared power would still be generated due to the _ only in magazines on ufology. As generally rotation of the rotor. The experiment was believed, serious people don't read such not well-organised. magazines and journals. Furthermore, there was another test (Source: Pravda, September 16, 2002, conducted simultaneously on the study of —_ http://english.pravda.ru) NEXUS +63 DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003 www.nexusmagazi ne.com