Documents / FOIA release
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.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On May 9, 2003, Ms. Helfrich appealed an initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) determination on behalf of her client, Ms. Leslie Kean, issued by Sharon Holgerson, FOIA Officer at NASA HQ. Ms. Kean sought “all data of whatever form…” relating to a Kecksburg incident in December 1965, or Acme; NASA fragology files for 1962-1967; any records on Richard M. Schulherr, Project Moon Dust, “Cosmos 96,” and any records on “NASA’s involvement of the recovery of the satellite, parts or debris thereof, anywhere in the United States or Canada.” No responsive records were determined to exist. The proposed final determination reverses the initial determination. We conclude that, based on the circumstances, the search at Headquarters may not have been fully adequate, and, therefore, the FOIA Office is requested to initiate a new search and also direct the original request to all NASA Centers for further processing.
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.