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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.

  • p. 1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 July 27, 2021 Reply to attn…
  • p. 3 …Administrator NASA Headquarters Executive Secretariat ATTN: FOIA Appeals MS 9R17 300 E Street S.W.
  • p. 7 …to all the FOIA Centers and appropriate Headquarters Offices. My intent in writing the memo was…
  • p. 8 …I also discussed with Patti Stockman, Headquarters Records Manager her efforts to locate documents in the…
  • p. 9 …Holgerson, FOIA Officer at NASA Headquarters. Your client’s initial request, dated January 31, 2003, sought…
  • p. 10 …This process has involved a review of the initial determination, the search conducted at NASA Headquarters…
  • p. 14 …We conclude that, based on the circumstances, the search at Headquarters may not have been fully…
  • p. 15 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 July 10, 20 19 ~ .. """-<i: Office…
  • p. 17 …Administrator NASA Headquarters Executive Secretariat ATTN: FOIA Appeals MS 9R17 300 E Street S.W. Washington…
  • p. 52 …inordinately difficult In CFi's case the Headquarters, U,S. Army Support Detachment, Oakdale, PA facility…
  • p. 56 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546~OOO1 Office of Public Affairs Ms. Lee…
  • p. 57 National Aeronautics and Space AdmrnlStraLon Headquarters WAshington, DC 2{)5Il6· 0001 HQ03-181 DepartmeDi of State…
  • p. 115 napl, 10 AIIn 0:' NelionaJ Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 Officc of…
  • p. 116 Ae ply to Attn 01 NallOnal Aeronautics a, ~ d Space Administration Headquarters Washing!Dn. DC 20546…
  • p. 134 …Forward 00 E!lglE!d1 ted basis to NASA Headquarters, Code MAO, Washington, D.C. 20546…
  • p. 173 …NASA Headquarters, 600 Independence A venue, Code MAO, Washington, D. 0 20546, informing the Fonoff 10…
  • p. 222 …1n October of 1994, a FOLA request was made to NASA Headquarters for information that concerned…
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NASA DOCUMENTS~
On October 21 , CFI and the SCI FI Channel announced their Intent to take legal action
National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration (NASA) to force the release of records (
UFO incident in Kecksburg, PA. The next day, a NASA officia l contacted CFi .attorney le
say the agency was forwarding 36 pages of documents responsive t o our FOIA request
apologized that It had 'overlooked' sending out the results of its resea rch sooner.
After ten months of pursuing the records in WaShington, D.C. through the Freedom of :
Act, NASA had finally responded to publiC pressure. Yet the documents were not respol
request, and provided us with no new Information. We will proceed with filing a lawsuit
District Court for t he District of Columbia , as soon as we have offiCia lly exhausted all al
procedures so as to comply with the requirements of the court .
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