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.
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c:o.. ..".. A-1235 INFO "'0 , .• DEPT PASS: FRO" SUBJECT : REF ( )Rd.... ( )BxcIIe( )Deoy( DEPARTlIEIIT OF S~,,(b)( ~B.o . I29'8.25>« X X ) AmCon CURITIBA *~; Dale (~~jl~ NASA 'JUN C3 19fi1i AmEmba•• y RIO DE JANEIRO Unidentified Fragments • OATE : June 3. 1966 Telegrams 009 Curitiba to Dept.; 008 Curitiba to De~.; 2669 Rio to Dept.; 2640 Rio to Dept.; 1-80(, Dept. to Rio, 11 to Curit1ba t:::&.) . 1. The Department has been advised that the fragments th4t fell ,on May , 6 near the Parana~Santa Caterina border have been recovered and sent to the Braz111an National Space Commission (ONAE) , at Sio Jose dOB Campos, State of Sao' Paulo.- , 2. This reporting officer 16 attempting to expedite aC~Blt1on of the fragments for forwarding to NASA for 1dentif1cation and 8llaJ.Y81s. In this regard J a CNAE spokes- man :1.n1'ormed the Embassy that Dr. Fernando de Mendonc;a, ' Techn1cal. Chief I CNAE, had authorized release of the material June 3. The Embassy expects to receive the fragments the week of' June 6 and will torward them to NASA by the mOst rap1d means of transportation available, informing'-'the Department by wire when and how shipped. ,. Attached are ali press releases compiled by the Embassy and the Consulate. The fact 1s that the incident caused considerable d1sturbance and conjecture among the popul&ce, most witnesses reporting that the object descended in . '-.. t:'lames and exploded ' before reach1ng the ground. " Most local scientists and Brazilian authorities who have examined the fragments believe that NASA should make an examination and report to advise the Brazilian pUblic of . th~ ori'gin of the fragments. The Embassy has also received press inquiries as to the possibility of future space f~agmentB endangering human life or property. As guidance in respon~i.ng to this L Enclosure: Press Releases UNCLASSIFIED 11'0" ... OS-3ZJ ~ I"Ok n¢ r lEi¥. ONLY ': (jf? .- 00.. .J
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.