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Article: Sci Fi Channel lobbies Congress for more UFO info.
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- June 23, 2003
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LOS ANGELES _ Like the spaceship that crashes into the Capitol in "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," the Sci Fi Channel is invading Washington.
The cable network has hired a lobbying firm to press Congress about being more open with the results of UFO investigations. Sci Fi is also thinking about going to court to have documents from a 1965 incident in Pennsylvania declassified.
Such actions are more typical of news agencies, not entertainment networks whose stock in trade is "Stargate SG-1" and "Tremors." But given the success of documentaries on the alleged Roswell UFO crash _ which was the highest-rated special in the network's history _ Sci Fi decided ...