Documents / FOIA release
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.
“UFO Files”10 pages
Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 As of this date, however, the Agency has released to numerous previous requesters 1,022 pages of UFO-related documents under the F OIA. Most of this material was located as a result of a previous search for records conducted on behalf of an earlier requester for information regarding UFOs up through 1979, and as a result of a recent updated search for records conducted on behalf of an earlier requester for information regarding UFOs from I979 through 15 March 1990. Any releasable material as a result of these earlier, thorough searches is included in this package. These documents are not indexed, and most of the material deals with matters related to the report by the Scientific Advisory Panel. We should advise you that most of the reports dealing with the UFO sightings considered by the Panel originated with other government agencies such as the Air Force, and that much of the later CIA-originated reports concern sightings as reported in the foreign news media. In accordance with our enclosed fee schedule, the material referred to above costs ten cents per page less the first 100 pages as a requester in the “all other” category. Also, as a result of former Director Woolsey’s 14 December 1.993 radio interview, a recent filrther release of 1,757 pages has been made bringing the total amount of pages to 2,779. Therefore, should you wish to purchase this package, please send us your check or money order for‘US$267 .90 to me, made payable to the Treasurer of the United States and cite the reference number above to ensure proper credit to your account. , You also have the option of reviewing the initial release of 991 pa.ges on the CIA’s electronic FOIA internet site. The access for this site via homepage URL is: littp:\\www.foia.ucia.gov. » I must consider your request for a fee waiver under the standards the Agency FOIA regulations outline, which you will find at Part I900 of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CIFR). I have reviewed your request under those standards and determined that your petition does not meet them because disclosing the information you seek is _ already in the public domain and its re-release would not likely contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations and activities of the United States Government. I therefore deny your request for a fee waiver. - You may appeal this decision, in my care, within 45 days from the date of this " letter. Should you choose to appeal the denial of your request for a fee waiver, you are encouraged to provide an explanation supporting your appeal. Agency regulations also specify that if the Agency has started to process a request, the Agency may only accept an appeal of a fee waiver denial if the requester agrees to be responsible for the costs in the event of an adverse administrative or judicial decision. l Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374
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.