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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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'Special Prosecutor , ror James Oberg?
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t' rom : Grant Robert Cameron
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SubJect: ' Special Prosecutor ' for James O~rg7
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Over the past number o f years a lo~ has been Jritten about a
cra s h of an obj@ct at KecJc:sburg, Penns . on." Dec.9, 1965, a nd the
m~vement of the recovered object to WPAFB. ~
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In the Sept.1993 issue of Qmt!.i Mr. James Oberg .~ hinted· that
the c~uoe of the crash wac thG SOv1et CO£mO$ - 96 probe . Follow i n~
my diocloliOure that Dr . Eric Walker , former ' President of Penn.
State Unive~sity, and former high ranking bovernment offic i al
involved with the UFO situation from Lhe s't.art . had rusned to the
Ked:.sbllrg crash site - Mr . Oberg again hin.ted .tholt '.-io.lkor
presence was ir:c.icative of the cra:'lh of CoomoD-96. .
Howev er ol.!!:'icg thl!;! i nr.ernet debate, re l ated t o Mr. Ober~' s
theory, Mr . Oberg c hose t o reltldin silenl!, except t.o s end me a
per!Onal E-mail ques tioning wh y I would t.('us t Soviet statements
o n Cosmos - 96. Mr . ObeL'g chose r;o l .... a.ve the defence o f his
POsition to TRW physic i st Dr. Michael Hofmeister, who
unfoL·tullately was 111 - prepa::-ed to defend Mr . Oberg ' s theory . Dr .
Ho f meister fina l ly admitted t hat he had never even read Mr .
Oberg's Omni article outlinino the theory. '
James Oberg has always been described as an exper~ on the Soviet
Space Prog ram , and es a h~rd - line UPO eceptic. He has been vQry
vocal about:. the accuracy o f his in f ontt3t ion. · • I ' VQ' bQQn wai tl.ng , •
~ames Oberg on ce aaid , "for an u fonut to describe a f actual error
or checkllble counter - example t o gtuff I've,: been. publ ishing since
obc".. t . o}\. l.g?,. .. ,.. .. 0 on U F O .. , o:>nd .. ~ E<>.7O' :no l ..... ek :, • . "
Bec,au!!Ie o f these th in~e IMn), cheoe to accept Oberg Cosmos-9b
theory without checking . Because of Mr. Ober g f s outspoken
t,'onfidenc e in his facts concerning UFOs, i '!- seemed st['ange that
Mr . Oberg chose t o s tay out O[ the deren c~ o~ his pet theory
relating to the Kecksburg crasb, leaving it for others no~ as
smart as hims e lf to defend.
In preperation for a paper on the Kecksburg crash , I came a c rODS
a number of new pieces of infonl',a tion . .a.tno'ng those wa.s an i tem
that might explain why Mr . Obe rg has been so silent about his
Cosmos - 96 theory so proudly displayed to t:.he wor l d' in 1993. The
quote i9 from David Templeton ' s special inveStigat.ion into t.he
KElcksburq crash called *Th@ Uninvited" and! writ.ten up i n the
Pittcburg Press newpaper June 19 , 1991 . The' qUote speaks for
;ic.I$!'lf!
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RIF 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.