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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…
AmEmbassy LUSAKA
Reference: Lusaka 474
D RA FT
September 19. 1966
1. NASA only interested in fragment for tecbniC41 evaluation if eoono01i-
cally and pol1tically feasible. Teohnical evaluation of this particular
fraqtnent not repeat not crltioa 1 to program . Department believes high
repeat high level approach at this time not repeat not warranted. but,. r _
. rf I« Il"fH ( J 1o.u. I ~ l6'a..
constdeq1t important that principle of UN Resolution 1962 A:0py pouched
September IS) be maintained; i.e •• that ownership not affected by passage
through outer space or by return to earth and that object or component
parts found beyond the llm1ts of the launchlD;l state shall be returned
2. FYI. NASA does not contemplate send:lng offioial far identification
purposes since identity does not appear to be 1n dispute but if 1:!mbassy
/ .
beHeves NASA IKWEcan be of assistance to Embassy by identifying
fragment. NASA willing send one. End F'lfI .
DECLAS~I~~NASA. Ltr. \ 2005
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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.