NASA FOIA Release Exposes Administrator Nelson's UAP Emails

NASA FOIA Release Exposes Administrator Nelson's UAP Emails and Internal Meeting Records

NASA released 92 pages in full and 6 in part in response to a FOIA request for Administrator Bill Nelson's emails containing UAP/UFO keywords, including calendar entries for an 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Meeting' and a May 2022 email from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb urging open scientific analysis of UAP data.

Published

October 4, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NASA FOIA Response Reveals Nelson UAP Email Records

The final Act request that John Greenewald submitted on June 22, 2022, received by NASA's FOIA office the following day and logged as tracking number 22-HQ-F-00667. " The requester asked that attachments be included, limited the window to June 7, 2021 through the date of processing, and requested that both classified and unclassified records be searched. NASA's Office of Information Technology ran the search.

According to the response letter, the search identified responsive records, which the agency then reviewed under the FOIA. The result was a release of 92 pages in full and 6 pages in part — a total that is modest in volume but notable in composition, because the withheld portions are not blank. NASA invoked three exemptions: Exemption 2, covering conference call-in numbers, bridge passcodes, internal publications, and employee bulletins; Exemption 6, covering email addresses; and Exemption 7(E), covering an email inbox tied to a list of…

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