NOAA Denies Responsive Records on AARO Information Sharing

NOAA Denies Responsive Records on AARO Sharing

The September 25, Greenewald sought policy documents, memoranda of understanding, memoranda of agreement, letters, and other memos outlining how NOAA shares information at any classification level with AARO, the DoD effort that investigates UAP-related cases. He also asked NOAA to include any adopted procedures carried over from prior investigative efforts such as the UAP Task Force and AOIMSG, and to search both classified and unclassified records dated from 2018 onward. NOAA's answer was that no such responsive records exist.

Yet the same letter states that the agency does possess "previously released records containing correspondence associated with AARO and/or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF)," which were attached for convenience. That pairing — a formal finding of no responsive policy records alongside a bundle of AARO and UAPTF correspondence — is the tension at the center of this release. The letter closes the request as complete while simultaneously demonstrating that NOAA…

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