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This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, dated October 26, 2009. She filed it in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, a FOIA suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Bryant had sought records of a 1987 FAA meeting about the November 17, 1986 Japanese flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. The declaration describes the agency's searches, which found no records of the meeting and three documents from other agencies about later airborne UFO encounters.
Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083377 of Scientific and Weapons Research (“OSWR”)'°, whose records have been archived. Such records are indexed only at the folder level. The DI searched using the following terms “UFO”, “U F O”, “U.F.O”, as well as “FAA”, “F A A”, and Federal Aviation Administration. In addition, the search officer looked for folder titles listing meeting, briefing, roster, or minutes for the same time period. No responsive records were located. 31. The DS&T also made all reasonable efforts to identify and retrieve records responsive to plaintiff’s request. Given the relevant time period, the DS&T searched archived records of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Office of Imagery Analysis, Office of Technical Services, Office of the Director for S&T, Office of Development and Engineering, Office of Research and Development, and Office of Technical Collection. The DS&T employed the following search terms: “FAA”, “Federal Aviation Administration”, “UFO”, “unidentified flying object”_and “Callahan”. No responsive records were located. 32. The DCIA Area also made all reasonable efforts to identify and retrieve any records responsive to plaintiff's FOIA request. The DCIA Action Center (DAC) Office of Public Affairs, Open Source Center, and Center for the Study of Intelligence conducted records searches. All components searched for “unidentified flying objects”, “UFO”, “UFOs”, “FAA”, or “Federal Aviation _ Administration”. In addition, the following search terms were used by one or 1° OSWR was formed in 1980 when the Offices of Scientific Intelligence and Weapons Intelligence were merged.‘ The name of the office was changed in 1995, and the office was subsequently merged with a number of others during successive reorganizations. 14 Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083377
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.