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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.

  • p. 15 …The FOIA unit conducted a search of its files to locate the case file with the…
  • p. 36 Kecksburg UFO Crash Incident Petition Drive Page 102 •did. on ph\ltc fcr ~n1Q rsemcnt…
  • p. 39 Coalition for freedom of Information Files Lawsuit Against NASA Page 1 of2 ~HOOr< FINANCE ,JvJ ~ -Fin…
  • p. 40 Coalition for Freedom ofInfonnation Files Lawsuit Against NASA ~ver providing a fu ll report ol lhe…
  • p. 43 …We will proceed with filing a lawsuit District Court for t he District of Columbia , as…
  • p. 47 …New Evidence, " a new special on the Kecksburg UFO incident with updates on the laWSUit, as…
  • p. 51 …Somewhere along t he line, the UFO program became politically disfavored. The offidal definition of "UFO…
  • p. 53 CFi, however, was prepared to show NASA that documents did exist in its files. This resulted…
  • p. 55 …The files of Project Blue Book, the official Air Force investigation into UFOs terminatcd in 1969…
tJifCUSSUUD Enclosure. No. 2~ A-257 , from BUKN:OS
AIlU:S
Unofficial TranslatioQ
lIAn<;IIAL EDCI1lIVI! PlIlER
Ministry of ~ore1gn Relations and Worship
D..A.K.
No. 792
'lb.. M1nistQ' of lordgn Relatiooa and Worship presents ita complbtents to the
Embassy of the United States of Amuie.a and has the honor to inform it t.hat the
Secretariat of Aeronautics .has reported t:hat the follawillg: ciamants pRl'taining to
spac~ vehicles are presently located in the (National) Institute. of Aeronautical
and Space Research and we~e found in ArgenttDe territory between December, 1964
and February of the present year:
Two spherical cmtaiuers found near the town of Tlo Puj io (Cordoba).
Qw cyl1ndrieal coata1Der found in San Miguel (Kondoza).
ODe ·artefact containing electronic equipment parts.
~8e artefacts bavill8 been sulmttted for ezpert e1QhltDation by authbrlt1es
competent 111 the matter, the latter have determined th&t the GGIC bel.oDg to space
v.ehicles l.amJ.ched from the Un1t~d States of America~ and have a180 established tile
chemical and physical cOlDpOs1ticn of the materials employed in their construction
as well as the coa.tenta 'Of the containers.
P~itbful to the traditional policy of reeipwocal collaborat1on which has
characteriZed our CO\mtry in it. relations with the Uo.ited States of A.IIaeri.ea @d
to the end. of not interrupting the permanent sx.c.bange of scientific tnforma.tion ,
which the National C'.orad8sioa. of Space B.esearch maintains rlth Amerl.ca'Q orgm"izat1ons
dedicated to space research, this Chanceilery is pleased to bring this lnforqatton
to the attention of the Embassy of the United States of America for .u.n purposes as
it may deem appropriate as well as the results obtaiDad by expert study and the
objects themselves.
'1he Mlnist'ty of Foreign Relations and. worship renews to the Emba8lY of the
United States of America the assurances of its highest co'Qsideration.
Buenos Aires. Kay 14 .. , 1965
To the ~s.Y of the United States of America,
Bueno s Aires
(jO CO B liOC0 6

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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.