Documents / FOIA release
This is an April 5, 2022 Department of the Navy FOIA response to John Greenewald of The Black Vault on case DON-NAVY-2022-001613. It releases one partially redacted four-page document from the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs. The document describes a January 2019 meeting at which an F/A-18 pilot from VFA-103 briefed Senate Armed Services Committee staffers on an anomalous aerial vehicle detection event in 2015 off the U.S. east coast. According to the record, staffers were disappointed that the Navy did not act.
security information concerning the national defense or foreign policy from disclosure, provided that it has been properly classified in accordance with the substantive and procedural requirements of Executive Order 13526. Upon review of this record, it has been determined that they contain instances of deliberative process privileged material, are predecisional in nature, and/or contain working versions of documents, and are thus exempt from disclosure under 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5). These records were originated by or in concert with OLA containing drafts and/or proposals of documents not in their final form, and, therefore, are partially exempt from disclosure. It has also determined that they contain instances of personally identifiable information (PII), such as the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of individuals. These instances of PII are exempt from disclosure under 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), since release of this information would result in a clearly unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy. The remainder of the document is released to you. You have the right to an appeal. It must be received within 90 calendar days from the date of this letter. Please provide the appellate authority (see below) the following in an envelope marked “FOIA appeal”: • a letter requesting an appeal that explains what you are appealing with any supporting arguments or reasons you think may be worthy of consideration; • a copy of your initial request; • a copy of the letter of denial. Also, please provide me a copy of your appeal letter at DONFOIA-PA@NAVY.MIL. There are two ways to file an appeal: through FOIA online or by mail. 1. Through FOIA online. This will work only if you set up an account on FOIA online before you make the request that you would like to appeal. To set up an account, go to FOIA online (this is a website that will appear as the top hit if you search the internet for “FOIA online”), click “Create Account” (a link located within the blue banner at the top in the upper right corner), enter your data into the field that subsequently appears, and click “Save” (at the bottom left of the screen). With your account thereby created, you will have the power to file an appeal on FOIA online to any request you file on FOIA online thereafter. To do so, locate your request (enter a
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.