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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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We are pretty sure there will be no responsive records. Sent with BlackBerry Work (www.blackberry.com) ## All: The videos are posted on the NAVAIR FOIA Reading Room page (it's linked to there from the DoD Press Release about the publishing of the videos). DoD Press Release containing the link is called "Statement by Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos" from April 27, 2020. VFA-41 is assigned to CVW-9, which appears to be attached to CSG-3...west coast. VFA-11 is assigned to CVW-1, which falls under CSG-8...east coast. ## V/r (b) (6) USN Force Judge Advocate (N01L) Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic 1562 Mitscher Avenue, Suite 300 Norfolk, VA 23551-2427 Desk Phone: (757) (b) (6) Mobile Phone: (757) (b) (6) 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.