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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8razillan authorities and scientists should be Lnformed that NASA
tentative ly Ident111ed recovery fragments as parts of Saturn (Apollo
vehicle) probe (SA-S) launched January 29, 1964 which broke up and
parts of which re-entered April 29. 1966. Observations of aerial
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SA-S survived re-entry into atmosphere on April 29 and that fragments
found appeared to be of this spacecraft. Aer1al display on May 6 not
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AI ~ 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.