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NASA FOIA 21-HQ-F-00500

NASA (obtained by The Black Vault) · 2021 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a July 27, 2021 FOIA response from NASA's Office of Communications to John Greenewald, Jr. It covers records from Leslie Kean's lawsuit against NASA seeking Kecksburg documents. NASA released 207 pages in full, 7 in part and withheld 31, noting that most of the lawsuit case files had been destroyed under records retention rules. The enclosures include court declarations, a 2003 appeal decision ordering a broader search, a 2019 FOIA response, and Stan Gordon's account of the missing NASA fragology files.

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NelionaJ Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546-0001
Officc of Public Affairs
Ms. Lee Ellen Helfrich
Lobel, Novins & Lamont
1275 K Street, NW
Suite 770
Washington, DC 20005·4048
Dear Ms. Helfrich:
August 2, 2006
On July 21, 2006, defendant filed its opposition to plaintifrs motjon for summary
judgment in the Kean v. NASA Freedom oflnformation Act (FOIA) litigation, Ln the
accompanying declaration ofKellie Robinson, she noted that some potentially responsive
records in two files were being referred to other agencies for FOIA processing, The
following documents have been reviewed by outside agencies and are now being
released:
(a) 46 pages of documents which originated with the Australian Government.
(Encl I)
(b) nine pages of a 10 page document from the Smithsonian Institution, (Encl 2)
The remaining page has been referred to lhe Air Force for its assessment
(c) 93 pages of documents from the State OcpanmenL (EncI3)
We have also referred 32 pages 10 the Air Force, including the one described above, for
its assessment and declassification, if appropriate. We are currently waiting for the Air
Force to complete this process.
Lastly, l2 pages ofagcncy documents which were referenced in the February 25,2004,
statement and adopted in the June 15,2004, declaration by Stella Luna. NASA Jobnson
Space Center FOrA Public Liaison Officer. are also included in this release, (Enel 4)
Sincerely~
St911 . McConnell
__ CllIer, FOIA Public Liaison Officer
- EncioSW'es

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FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.