NASA's Fifth Interim FOIA Release on UAP Emails

NASA's recent FOIA response highlights the agency's ongoing investigation into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, revealing a significant number of documents processed related to UAP and UFO inquiries.

Published

September 19, 2026

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Date not listed

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The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NASA's Fifth Interim Release Keeps UAP Record Open

The letter That framing matters: the clarified request was received by NASA's Office of Communications on July 22, 2021, and more than a year later the agency was still producing records rather than closing the file. The request itself sought all emails, at any classification level, containing terms including "Unidentified Aerial," "Unidentified Flying," "UAP," "UFO," "Unidentified Spacecraft," "Unidentified aircraft," and "UAPTF," with attachments, across the mailboxes of named NASA officials and defined date ranges. NASA's earlier responses — dated October 6, 2021, January 11, 2022, March 25, 2022, and July 19, 2022 — had already notified the requester that the agency tasked its Office of Information Technology to search those accounts using the specified keywords and date ranges.

That search, the letter states, located voluminous records. The July 19 response released 70 pages from the accounts of Joel Montalbano, Suzanne Gillen, Sandra Connelly, Michael New, Paul Hertz, Bhavya Lal, and…

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