NASA FOIA Response on UFO/AATIP Memos Yields Internal Brief

NASA FOIA Response on UFO/AATIP Memos Yields Internal Brief Citing Elizondo's AATIP Claims

NASA reviewed six pages responsive to a FOIA request for OSTP memos on UFOs, AATIP, and AAWSAP, withholding an employee phone number under Exemption 6. The release included a December 21, 2017 NASA Daily Communications Brief summarizing media coverage in which former AATIP manager Luis Elizondo said there is 'very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.'

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September 19, 2026

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NASA FOIA Letter Answers OSTP UFO Memo Request

The central Records were referred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a direct response, and the referral was assigned tracking number 20-HQ-R-00002. NASA's answer came on November 13, 2019, over a year after the request was filed. The agency's Headquarters FOIA office reviewed the referred records and found them to consist of six pages.

C. § 552(b)(6), which exempts personnel and medical files and similar files whose disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. NASA invoked the exemption specifically to protect an employee's mobile phone number.

What the six pages do not contain is the thing that was asked for. No OSTP memo on UFOs, AATIP, or AAWSAP appears in the released material. Instead, the substantive content is an internal NASA Daily Communications Brief dated December 21, 2017 — a media-tracking document, not a policy record.

The gap between the request's target and the release's…

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