SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2002, Issue No. 105 October 23, 2002

UFO CULT RESURFACES The UFO cult that is fixated on the notion that "secret government documents" contain "the truth" about otherwise "unexplained aerial phenomena" is, on balance, no friend of freedom of information or government accountability. Neverending requests for documentation on UFOs, the remains of Noah's Ark, and similar obsessions clog up the narrow channels of public access to government information and make a mockery of the Freedom of Information Act. Their latest publicity stunt, featuring no less than former White House chief of staff John Podesta is reported in "Clinton Aide Slams Pentagon's UFO Secrecy" here: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/22/ ufo.records/index.html