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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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I believe the requester is looking for information on the "Gimbal" video which was obtained from VFA-11. If you can confirm that CSG-8 has no responsive records or a POC for the CSG-8 FOIA Office, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! V/R (b) (6) NAWCAD Command Operations Group Admin & Records Management Division 47122 Liljencrantz Road Patuxent River, MD 20670 Phone: (301)(b)(6) From: (b) (6) LCDR USN COMCARSTRKGRU EIGHT (USA) Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10:47 AM To: (b) (6) CIV USN NAWCAD (USA) (b) (6) @navy.mil> Subject: RE: DON-NAVY-2020-007330 Ma'am, Good morning - from your emails below I am tracking the following request: Records "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 for reference)” If there is anything else you need, please let me know and I will coordinate with the CVW-1 and VFA 11 to get you a formal response. V/R, LCDR(b) (6) ., JAGC, USN Staff Judge Advocate Carrier Strike Group EIGHT NIPR: (b) (6) Office: (757)(b)(6) @navy.mil SIPR (b) (6) @navy.smil.mil
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.