USG-UAP-D001_Congress-WhiteHouse-UFO-Correspondence_1998.pdf

1320.4 Aeronautics:UFO

1320.4 Aeronautics: UFO

# Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)
## INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION
ID Number: L/1998-00407

**Title:** WARD/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from (b) (6) , who's interested in U.F.O. and the recent Mars photo

Recipient: L/Heffernan

Author: SNOWE
Organization: SENATE
Date Written: 05/18/1998
Date Received: 05/26/1998
Date Concurred:
Date Submitted:
Date Signed: 06/24/1998
Date Closed: 06/24/1998

Action Office: L/Ward:S
>>Current Due Date: 06/18/1998<<
Original Due Date:

Status: Closed

Signature Office: L/Heffernan

Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L…

13204 Aeronautics: UFO's

# Headquarters Action Tracking System (HATS)
## INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE ACTION
ID Number: L/1998-00729

### Title: Rothman/UFO Sightings by Astronauts

Recipient: L/Heffernan

Author: Grassley
Organization: Senate

Date Written: 08/03/1998
Date Received: 08/31/1998
Date Concurred:
Date Submitted:
Date Signed: 09/04/1998
Date Closed: 09/10/1998

Action Office: LD/Rothman:P
>>Current Due Date: 08/22/1998<<
Original Due Date: 08/22/1998

Status: Closed

Signature Office: L/Heffernan

Info Offices: L/Heffernan, L/Heninger, L/Kerwin

### Abstract:
Senator Grass…

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The Honorable Charles E. Grassley
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Grassley:

Thank you for your letter of August 3, 1998, on behalf of (b) (6) who is requesting information about the possible sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) by NASA astronauts.

Over the years there have been many objects sighted by the astronauts during space missions. Most of these items were later identified by photographs or NORAD records as material from launch vehicles or spacecraft or were such items as water droplets. No unidentified mate…

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Z/Roger Launius (with incoming); provided info
Sent to Sherry Kuntz in the Hill office

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9/3/98

ASTRONAUTS & UFOs File Copy

Since the "astronaut UFO" genre is one of the main pillars of UFO evidence, this study claiming that the entire set of cases is invalid will obviously be received with skepticism and criticism from UFO buffs. Rational objections and arguments will be printed and answered in a subsequent issue of this magazine. Critics are urged to raise specific points not addressed in the study, or to cite and document facts which might modify or invalidate conclusions in the study.

## The Whole Story!

James E. Oberg
Associate Editor
"Space World" magazine

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archives has revealed cases where UFO researchers withheld certain information freely given them by NASA officials, information which would have clearly explained many cases which the authors wanted to appear mysterious. So the time has come to take a new look at this whole phenomenon. What is the truth about "astronaut UFOs"?

The first step in any research might be with the Condon report, thought by many to have been commissioned as a "whitewash" of the UFO phenomenon. UFO enthusiasts are accustomed to hearing harsh criticism of almost all aspects of this study, but my own objections to the …

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The "McDivitt UFO", prize-winning astronaut photograph taken on Gemini-4. Actually, McDivitt explained later after the flight that the sun was coming across the window as the spacecraft rolled, the sun rays struck a metal bolt, causing the flares in the camera lens. NASA photo 65-H-1013.

years of manned spaceflight uncovered any evidence at all which even remotely suggests that Earth is being visited and observed by advanced spaceships from another world? Let's look at the evidence.

On June 3, 1965, rookie astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White blasted off from C…