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This U.S. Navy FOIA email chain from June and July 2020 covers the handling of request DON-NAVY-2020-007330. That request sought records on the history and custody of videos of two F-18 Hornets tracking a UFO, which were cited in AFOSI file 3290517356125. NAWCAD records staff, N2N6's Joe Gradisher and several Navy judge advocates discuss which office should answer it, and staff identify the footage as the Gimbal video from VFA-11. Carrier Strike Group Eight, CVW-1 and VFA-11 found no responsive records, so a no-records response was prepared.
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## From: (b) (6) Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:38 AM To: Gradisher, Joseph F CIV USN DCNO N2N6 (USA) (b) (6) @navy.mil> Subject: DON-NAVY-2020-007330 Mr. Gradisher, We have received the attached FOIA Request and need your assistance. The request is asking for records regarding the history and custody of the UAP videos. I checked with our Program Office and was informed the squadron/fleet does not fall under our cognizance. Do you know what squadron/fleet the videos were under? Who should I refer this FOIA request to? DON-NAVY-2020-007330 - All information and records including (but not limited to) reports correspondence, queries, documents, letters, messages regarding the history and custody of the videos described as video of two F-18 Hornets tracking an unidentified Flying Object (UFO) 》 in the AFOSI File number 3290517356125 (see attached file for reference). The release of this video was investigated by the AFOSI in 2018 and the report mentions the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division as being in possession of those videos. Thank you! V/R (9) (b) NAWCAD Command Operations Group Admin & Records Management Division 47122 Liljencrantz Road Patuxent River, MD 20670 Phone: (301) (b) (6)
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.