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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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Patuxent River, MD 20670 Phone: (301) (b) (6) ## (b) (6) I received word back from CSG-8 (see below) and they have no responsive records. I have attached the Final Response and original request. Do we need to run this through Gradisher or anybody else before releasing? If not, could you please review and forward to (b) (6) for signature. Thank you! V/R NAWCAD Command Operations Group Admin & Records Management Division 47122 Liljencrantz Road Patuxent River, MD 20670 Phone: (301) (b) (6) 'FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY PRIVACY SENSITIVE Any misuse or authorized disclosure From: COMCARSTRKGRU EIGHT (USA) (b) (6) @navy.mil> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 1:29 PM To: (b) (6) A CIV USN NAWCAD (USA) Subject: RE: DON-NAVY-2020-007330 Ma'am, I am the IDA for CSG-8. Our Staff, CVW-1, and VFA-11 were not able to locate any records responsive to the request. Let me know if you need any other information.
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 12 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.