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15 RAF SOPLEY UFO - 1971 15 RAF SOPLEY UFO - 1971 RAF SOPLEY UFO - Clinton library releases files constitutes an opportunity for us?" Podesta wrote RAF SOPLEY UFO - in a March 24, 1999, e-mail to Baker, who 1971 1971 on UFOs at flying saucer eventually wrote a book about the former buff's request president's impeachment and trial. "Because any good X-Files fan is Continued from Page 14 skeptical by nature and understandably so," Baker Continued from Page 14 Associated Press - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. replied the next day. - In a move sure to provide fodder for conspiracy In 1995, a group called the "Project theorists, the Clinton Library withheld e-mails Starlight Coalition" sent President Clinton a letter with subject lines like "X-Files" and "Area 51" asking him to declassify any documents about from a batch of documents recently released at a extraterrestrials or UFOs. UFO buff's request. Two months later, an aide replied that he National Archives officials made several had forwarded the request for a meeting to White files - ranging from a White House staffer's House staff. obsession with the TV show The X-Files to "The President appreciates your interest President Clinton's push to hook up the Sci-Fi and long-standing involvement in this issue," Channel at Camp David - available for viewing James A. Dorskind, a special assistant to the starting last Thursday in response to Freedom of president, wrote to members of the coalition. Information requests. The files also include an e-mail between Several pages, however, were withheld White House spokeswomen Patricia F. Lewis and because they would "constitute a clearly Mary Ellen Glynn over a Hollywood Reporter unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," question about Clinton's insistence on installing according to National Archives documents. the Sci-Fi channel at the presidential retreat. Among the released pages, 27 come from "I know we're not going to talk about it, the files of former White House Chief of Staff but it's one of the better questions I've heard in a John Podesta, a fan of The X-Files, a show about while and I wanted to share," Lewis wrote. FBI agents investigating extraterrestrials and The records are being released in response other supernatural events. The files include to a slew of requests from UFO enthusiast Grant articles forwarded to Podesta about the canceled Cameron, who operates a Web site on presidential Fox show. history with extraterrestrials. Cameron has several Peter Baker, a Washington Post reporter, 1984: This is Alan Turner with his wife Diane relied on Podesta's interest in the show to other requests pending, including one for "all files at Buckingham Palace receiving his MBE in persuade him to help on a book about the White on the Kennedy assassination." He did not immediately respond to an e- l984. - All photographs copyright Alan Turner House. mail message seeking comment. [] MBE. "Why am I skeptical that this book