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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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Subject: RE: DON-NAVY-2020-007330 Good Afternoon, This FOIA request is for 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)". I believe that is 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 all for your assistance! V/R (9) (q) NAWCAD Command Operations Group Admin & Records Management Division 47122 Liljencrantz Road Patuxent River, MD 20670 Phone: (301) 342 On the east coast, CSGs provide all the "legal" care and feeding for their subordinate units. So CSG-8 would serve as FOIA IDA for VFA-11. I can't speak for CNAP concerning VFA-41.
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.