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.
Coalition for freedom of Information Files Lawsuit Against NASA Page 1 of2 ~HOOr< FINANCE ,JvJ ~ -Fin"",. HOllle - Yil!22l-~ Welcome l5jgn In] Financial News To track stocks & more, fuI:gj§l Enter Bymbol(s) I IBasic 3 ~ $ ymbolloolwl:! Press Release Source: CoalitiOr'I for Freedom of lr'lfonnallon Coalition for Freedom of Information Files Lawsuit Against NASA TUosday D~mber i, 11 21 ilm ET Coalition for Freedom of Information Seeks NASA Records of Mysterious 1965 Pennsylvania UFO Incident Litigation Supported by Clinton Former Chief of Staff John Podesta WASHINGTON. Dac. glPRNewswireJ - On the eve of President Bush', expscted .mnouncement about a new Initiative wl!h NASA, the Coalhlon fo r freedom ollnformallon (Cfij wIIh lLJPPO!1 flom SCI FI Channelloclay lMOunced the Wng of I lawsu~ against the space allBI"IC)' Kl U.S. District Court for Iile Dis!rict of Columbia. The ~llng comes as a result of the government agency's refulillo relene it. records concerning \he 1965 UFO inodenl near Keeksburg, PA. Today is Ihe 381h anniv8flilty of the incident. , -Y;\.l-lnOf-SmaIiBuslnes:s happened In Kecksburg (en SI ~flT£D ) "Our law,uit Is aimed algetting NASA to 1e!llne public whal ~ knew and when it knew it: $1:<1 Ed Rothschild , Executive Director ofCFi. lhe lawaull agalnil NASA II Ihe first of several agalnS! governmanl 'genein, IncludIng the U ,S. Army, U,S . Air Force and the Departmen t of Delen". which have been slonewalling effort. 10 obtain records on Ihe Keeksburg inciden! under Ihe Fleedom of Information Act. John Podesta. former ChIef 01 SiaN lor President Clinton and member of Ihe 1997 Moynihan CommissIon on Protecmg and Reducing Government Sectecy, wpports the effort slatltlg Ihat the public has tI righllo know 100 thalttle government shOUld disclose whal "Allhough NASA hal relea.. d 36 p<lges of documents, none of those document, pertain 10 any investigatJon of the inciden t by NASA Dr to /elated ptoJects WIthin the agency thaI could shed light on Ihe Kecktburg Incldent , ~ said lee Helfrich 01 lobel, Novins and lamoni, the Wllhinglon anomey (~lf'Ig the suil "Furthennore," said Helfrich, "Leslie Kean, D.redor of Investigations for CFi, clearly demonstrated thai NASA hail documents responsIVe 10 the spedfic requests she made in CFl', Freedom Of Intonnalion Ad request , bul NASA has fa iled for nearly iii yelr 10 produce any relevant dOCtJmen!s.- On December 9. , 965, witnesses In ami (leaf Kadtsburg described seeing a fireball In Ihe eveon9 sky, a t'Ontrolled landing and Il1I!I systematIc mHilary recovery of an object. As reported by locol radio and new'papers, U.S, military personnel cordoned off the area, invastigated the s~e, and left wi!houl http://biz.yohoo.com/prnews/03 1209/nytuI06_1.html Top Stories , Slocks"ppear Poised.1ru VjaJY Start A_~ (UlO .,,) • ~. EconomY...sh..rtn.k~ Recession· R........ (8M 1r.I) • Aw.oZlIne Sags Before the BeU. R ..... (8.:HI ...) • Stocks. tQ.WataLWedrtesday . ~""Itn (7 1Q am) • ~-@mal!ed articles. • Most;yi~arlides 12/1012003
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.