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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.

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A description is liven of a tilthl metal spbere fOWld in I remote part
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vebicle, an acalYlb is n::at: or tbe likely fa-entry hi,lory of the Iphere
duriuS dcct.y FIan otrOlll.u orbit.
It i. concluded tbat the spbere originated iD I U.B. Ipace vehic le in
orbit, lind it is shown tbll the lipbue wuWd lurvive re-entry _'t.hp or
not it were ibielded by additional material burnt or melted oIT duriOI
fe-entry. JuMhelo analy.is is indicated which ahould decide wbether
thi. particular apherc _ in f ... , shielded durins: plrt of tbe re-entry.
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