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This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, signed January 22, 2010. It was filed in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It covers Bryant's FOIA request about a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. It also covers later airborne UFO cases, the dispute over his fee category, and the CIA's searches. The CIA found no records of the meeting and three records from other agencies, which it referred to the State Department and NSA.
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Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083373 more components: “UFO encounter,” “Japanese flight crew 1628,” “aviation,” “meeting at FAA 1987,” “FAA meeting,” “1987 meeting,” “UFO and Japan,” “UFO and 1628,” “UFO and CIA,” “UFO and 747,” “UFO and extraterrestrial,” “Callahan.” (The term “unidentified flying object” was also used in conjunction with other terms when “UFO” is listed in the preceding examples. In addition, as was noted above, a special search was conducted in 1993-94 regarding UFOs at the request of Director Woolsey. These records are part of the CIA UFO collection which was offered to the plaintiff in CIA’s initial response. The search was overseen by the Executive Assistant to the DCI. The DAC searched all of the records retired as part of this effort (“every single page”), and CSI independently reviewed a subset as possibly containing responsive information. All records were manually reviewed as part of this search. No responsive records were located. The DAC found no reference to a meeting or the FAA in 1987 (“or indeed, any other year”) or any documentation regarding UFO encounters, extra-terrestials, or unexplained flying phenomena from 1986 onward. In addition, the individual who oversaw the 1993-94 search and review effort as the Executive Assistant to the DCI searched his email concerning this project for “FAA” and located no responsive documents. As previously noted, the NCS is responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence information. The N CS records system contains information on persons and entities that are of foreign intelligence or counter-intelligence interest to the CLA and other United States Government agencies. After 4 t .15 i Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083373
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.