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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 l a. “As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all other related documentation” of the “l987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss and evaluate...the intrusive UFO encounter experienced on Nov. 17, 1986, by the Japanese flight crew (No. 1628) of a 747 cargo jet...in Alaskan sky.” - b. “As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date.” £6 u Plaintiff also stated that since he was submitting his request as a representative of the news media principally as a columnist for the monthly newsstand periodical ‘UFO Magazine”’, he asked that “all records-search/review fees” be waived. (A true and correct copy of Plaintiff’ s initial request is attached hereto as Exhibit A.) By letter dated September 30, 2008, the acknowledged receipt of Plaintiff’s request and assigned it reference number F-2008-01781. The letter went on to explain that “there is no organized effort to do research in connection with UFO phenomena, nor has there been an organized effort to collect intelligence on UFOs since the 1950s.” There is currently no CIA program to actively collect information on UFOs. The letter then discussed the release by CIA of UFO- related documents (2,779 pages) in response to prior FOLA requests and a special search conducted in 1993 at the direction of then CIA Director James Woolsey, which included the search for and review of all Agency files on UFOs. The letter also enclosed a copy of CIA’s fee schedule and stated the cost for the UFO package was $267.90, ten cents per page less the first 100 pages free. That is the cost of duplication. Since this information was previously released and the charge 3 > 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.