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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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- ,............ ~ •w. '0' •• / I .., ••• " A-57 ... <- ,.. . c. $ TO • • ]v/ INFO • ,.c. ..c : DEPARTMENT Of STATE t JI aDA ~ " ... co... -.,,' FROM Amconsul OHAHRAN OATE: October 27, 1965 ,., ••• u. SUBJECT : Aramco Recovl!!rs TWo al-Hadfdah Meteori tes -,"rlr.-••;;•.-t-.",..~,---j REF .;/) ' . A [)!~rtnent's Telegram 88, October 13, 1965: 6. Congen NE'" 1~5 ~o O~p!l,:!~n~j . C• .~par .~mcfl~ I ~ Te . ! .~.9r~!D ~t. 0., C.oflgen Telegram Te;legram_ -, o " " . In ' to Department /fOo..n l."tA During his extended stay in Saudi Arabia earlier this year to prepore an illustrated erticle on tM, Kingdom for the National 'Ie. ~is~ . Hi. Thana!; J. ABERCROMBIE ~jas taken to the II . al era' (SOD 281 E 21? )0' N) in the Rub al-Kh.1i by an ,cI'"<or,ICI,) bedouin guide. Hr. Abercrombie viewed and photographed a large meteorite near the crater, esti mating its weight at two tons. Upon returning to WaShington, Mr' . Abercrorrb i e discussed the meteorite with the Smithsonian Institution, which e~pressed an interest in recovering It for study and analysis (Reference A). Stimulated by messages between Mr. Abercrombie and Aramco President Mr. Than&s C. BARGER, Aramco sent a team to al·Hadidah crater to recover the meteorite, using heavy equi p:nent already avail.ble at a seismographic field camp north of Ubaylah. Th~ team recovered not only the large meteorite seen by Mr. Abercrombie but also a smaller one 200 yardS farther south. 80th meteorites were trucked to Ohahran and have since been found' to weigh 4,800 pounds and 470 PQunds respectively. The larger one was esti_ mated by the team in al-Hadidah to weigh 1,100 pounds (Reference a), but Mr. Abercrombie 1s estimate proved to be. l1I.Ich closer. Both meteorites are of the iron family and have a high specific gravity. Enc losure No. I gives extracts from an Aramco report on the teaml~ visit to al.Hadidah and on the preliminary examination of the meteorites. Enc 1osure: ~ ~I) Excerpts L from Aramco Report on al-Hadidah Meteorites Decontrol follow i ng Oct@~( 27. llJ+HEU OffIcIAl! 1966 FOR. DEJ'I. YSZ ONLY 01. D°'" .J , , I I '- _ 1_"'" ...'L••I aeutOfl ""PIOtr • • wy: " /; I CCHe1 d, .td'_ _ __.1"'J!" /11."'J."!lS..__L ____ _____________ Clalr..c,," 4uCQ3
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.