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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.

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“UFO Files”9 pages

  • 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…
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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.