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C.M. Kornbluth and Fred Pohl wrote a couple of books about an unscrupulous future advertising agency. They could've done justice to this cable channel's quest for ratings, I mean, truth.

The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Leslie Kean, a San Rafael, Calif., investigative reporter backed by the cable channel and a group called the Coalition for Freedom of Information.

"Our lawsuit is aimed at getting NASA to tell the public what it knew and when it knew it," said Ed Rothschild, a lobbyist the Sci Fi Channel hired from the Washington firm Podesta Mattoon, who is also identified as CFI's executive director. Former President Clinton's one-time chief of staff John Podesta, whose brother is a principal in the lobbying firm, has supported the cable channel's effort to declassify the documents. ...

Sci Fi Channel officials said they're looking for an explanation of what occurred. They're also looking for viewers.

A November 2002 documentary on the suspected 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, was the highest-rated special in the network's 11-year history. It was seen by nearly 2.4 million people, or about 2 1/2 times Sci Fi's usual prime-time audience.

Sci Fi Channel-backed researcher sues NASA over UFO files

Earlier: Sci-fi channel & Kecksburg's flying acorn

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Unless they use Ockham's Razor and figure that a 'UFO' is just that, an Unidentified (not Alien) Flying Object, then they would see how ridiculous their claim is. Conspiracy theories are boring.

Posted by: Eli Sarver | December 7, 2003 9:29 AM

Theory conspirists make for some of the most excruciatingly boring people on earth.

Posted by: Richard Evans Lee | December 7, 2003 9:43 AM

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