NASA's Final FOIA Response Reveals UAP Communication Efforts

NASA's final response to a FOIA request reveals the extent of communications regarding UAP and UFOs, highlighting the agency's efforts to address public inquiries.

Published: September 18, 2026
Declassified: Date not listed
Source agency: The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NASA Closes Final UAP FOIA Request With 602 Pages

That dual framing matters: the correspondence does not merely deliver documents, it declares an endpoint. What had been an open-ended inquiry — one that generated successive releases dated October 6, 2021, January 11, 2022, March 25, 2022, July 19, 2022, and September 16, 2022 — is converted by this letter into a closed account. The September 16 response had provided 370 pages from the account of Dr.

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu while promising that remaining records would issue on a rolling basis. The October 18 letter ends that rolling process, stating that processing is complete and that the enclosed records come from the accounts of Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Michael New, Karen Feldstein, Bhavya Lal, and Margret Kieffer. The archive is now countable.

The letter reports 331 pages released in full, 348 pages released in part, 9 pages withheld in full, and 472 pages identified as duplicate copies of material already processed.…

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