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This Central Intelligence Agency filing is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, in Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It supports the CIA's motion for summary judgment. It traces Larry W. Bryant's 2008 FOIA request for records of a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japanese 747 encounter over Alaska and records of similar airborne UFO encounters. It also describes the fee dispute and the searches the CIA ran. No records of the meeting were found, and three documents from other agencies were referred to them.
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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 on persons and entities that are of foreign intelligence or counter-intelligence interest to the CIA and other United States Government agencies. After reviewing plaintiffs FOIA request, NCS responded that its records system was not set up to search on general subjects or topics such as UFOs.1~l'l2 34. In sum, the CIA tasked those components reasonably likely to possess infonnation responsive to Plaintiffs request (if any) to conduct records searches. The searches were conducted by information management professionals who are familiar with the records systems of their respective components and who routinely and regularly conduct searches of these records as part of their professional responsibilities. These individuals were familiar with Plaintiffs request and all such searches were reasonably calculated to locate responsive records, if any. As indicated above, no documents were located in response to \ item (a) (“1987 special meeting at FAA”) of Plaintiffs request and three records originated by other govemment agencies were located in response to item (b)(“all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters”). I hereby declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. U Intelligence reports disseminated by NCS (formerly the Directorate of Operations) are included in the DI records system where they may be searched by topic (and were searched as part of the DI records search described above.) 12 The Directorate of Support to conduct searches in this case. Given its functions as CIA’s administrative and support arm, PIPD officers reasonably detennined that the DS was not likely to have records responsive to plaintiff s request. i 16 Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 l
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 58 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.