Navy FOIA Release References Internal 'Classification Guide

Navy FOIA Release References Internal 'Classification Guide on UAP'

ONI's final response to a FOIA request for UAP-related emails involving Captain Scott Chesbrough states that several responsive emails were found and that releasable records would be posted to the FOIA Reading Room. Embedded email fragments reference a 'Classification Guide on UAP' being prepared for promulgation across the Fleet.

Published

September 11, 2026

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Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Navy FOIA Letter Reveals Internal UAP Classification Guide

The Department , closing out a request he had filed more than a year earlier, on June 23, 2020. " ONI's reply states that its review of records and systems returned several emails responsive to that keyword sweep. What makes the release notable is not the administrative letter itself but the material it points toward.

Rather than mailing records to the requester, ONI directed that publicly releasable documents be posted in its FOIA Reading Room, a link to which appears in the letter. The embedded email fragments accompanying the response reference a "Classification Guide on UAP" and a "UAP SCG," with correspondence describing coordination among personnel over the guide's review and its promulgation across the Fleet. One message states that the material was being provided for situational awareness rather than wider distribution while work continued with "SSD Navy" on formal promulgation of the guide across the Fleet.

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