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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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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 July 10, 20 19 ~ .. """-<i: Office OfCollllllunicatiollS Mr. Fred Saluga FOlA: 19-HQ-F-00470 Dear Mr. Saluga: This is our [mal response to your Freedom ofInfOimation Act (FOIA) request to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), dated April 14, 2019, and received in trus office on April 15, 2019. Your request states that you seek the following: all i.nfonnationlincluding pictmes/reports/ and any other infonnation on the vehicle that crashed at Kecksbmg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965. It was rep0l1ed that NASA people in white coveralls and NASA emblems were at the scene. We all know that it was not a UFO, but a space craft that was either oms or belonged to someone else crashed on that day and was removed on an aIlllY hUCk. I Imderstand that NASA came to the conclusion that it was a Russian craft. If it was how did NASA come to that conclusion? In response to yom request we leamed that NASA was involved in a Freedom of InfoIlllation Act lawsuit seeking records on the Kecksburg incident in 2003. The FOIA unit conducted a search of its files to locate the case file with the records that were processed for that request/lawsuit. The search located one folder with documents that included records NASA released with some redactions to the FOIA litigant's attomey, and emails and statements related to the NASA FOIA unit searches for records in response to that lawsuit. Dming a telephone conversation Nikki Gramian, PI1ncipal Agency FOIA Officer, explained to you that, with the exception of the one file discussed above, it appears the remaining case files created in response to the FOIA lawsuit had been desh·oyed pmsuant to the records retention policy NASA has for its FOIA case files. For yom infOimation, Under 44 USc. §§
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.