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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.
Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 Central Intelligence Agency -" 1 t rte "-._ Hi 1/ \\ ‘ !‘i2,.g‘?,2£"“ /I.‘ Washington, DC. 31305 $577‘ 23 June 2009 Mr. Larry W. Bryant Reference: F-2008-0 17 8 1 Dear Mr. Bryant: This is in reference to your 23 August 2008 Freedom of Inforrnation Act (FOIA) request, received in the offioe of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on _ 18 August 2008, for the following CIA-received and CIA-generated records: (1) As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all other related documentation of the 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C.; and . '(2) As pertain to all similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date. Please note that upon further review, the Agency is reopening the processing of your request; a search will be conducted for records in existence through 15 lune 2009. You also requested news media status. Since your request pertains to UFOs and you are a columnist with the newsstand periodical, UFO Magazine, we are placing you in “news media” fee category for this request. Accordingly, you will be responsible only for the cost of reproducing any records released in response to your request. Copying costs are ten cents per page less the first 100 pages. Sincerely, C§l»5‘1!¢}7L.l§£l¢<4.‘ Delores M. Nelson Information and Privacy Coordinator Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 (b)(6
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 58 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.