NRO Internal Emails Reveal UAP Task Force and DoD IG Coordin

NRO Internal Emails Reveal UAP Task Force and DoD IG Coordination

The NRO released two partially redacted documents in response to a FOIA request for emails to/from Director Christopher Scolese containing UAP keywords, including an internal update on the UAP Task Force Report to Congress and a DoD IG project on UAPs.

Published

October 8, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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NRO FOIA Release Exposes Internal UAP Coordination Records

The National Office occupies a peculiar position in the federal bureaucracy: it builds, launches, and operates the satellites that collect intelligence, yet it insists it does not task those satellites or analyze what they gather. That self-described boundary became visible through a Freedom of Information Act case that the agency answered on 8 April 2022, when FOIA Public Liaison Anita Casamento wrote to requester John Greenewald regarding case F-2021-00164. " He limited the scope to records dated from August 5, 2019 onward, asked that attachments be included, and requested that the search cover N1PRNET, S1RNET, and JWICS where applicable.

The NRO's response was narrow. After what the letter describes as a thorough search of its files and databases, the agency located two documents responsive to the request and released them only in part. , which shields the organization, functions, personnel numbers, and names or titles of NRO employees; (b)(5) for…

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