AARO's 2025 UAP Data Workshop: Inside the FOIA Release

Newly released FOIA documents show AARO convened a two-day workshop in August 2025 with experts from government, academia, and civilian UAP organizations to tackle the challenges of integrating disparate UAP data — and hosted Uruguay's CRIDOVNI at the Pentagon for briefings on their respective investigative methods.

Published

September 27, 2026

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Date not listed

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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AARO's Private UAP Workshop Revealed Through FOIA

The Black Vault's Greenewald filed a Freedom of Information Act request on March 17, 2026, and the Office of the Secretary of War/Joint Staff logged it the following day as case number 26-F-. What came back, in a final response letter dated September 14, 2026, was not a trove of case files but something arguably more revealing: the administrative scaffolding of an invitation-only gathering that AARO convened to reshape how anomalous phenomena data is collected, described, and analyzed. AARO located 89 responsive pages.

C. § 552 (b)(5), the exemption covering deliberative inter- and intra-agency memoranda, and portions of the remaining 70 pages were redacted under both (b)(5) and (b)(6), the latter protecting personal privacy. The agency stated it applied the foreseeable harm standard during review.

That withholding pattern matters: the material the public can read describes who attended, where they met, and what they planned, while the deliberative substance of…

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