Pentagon FOIA Files Reveal Emails on AATIP, Elizondo, and Na

Pentagon FOIA Files Reveal Emails on AATIP, Elizondo, and Navy UAP Videos

Released DoD FOIA records show NY Post journalist Steven Greenstreet pressing Pentagon spokespersons to verify Luis Elizondo's resignation letter and clarify AATIP, with a DoD spokesman stating the program 'did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena.'

Published

October 6, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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FOIA Case Files Expose Pentagon Media Exchanges on UAP

Division released a set of case files to researcher John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault that, taken together, document how Pentagon public affairs officials handled press inquiries about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the resignation of Luis Elizondo, and Navy footage of unidentified aerial phenomena. The records span two dockets: case 22-F-0898, a final response dated September 28, 2022 to a request Greenewald filed on May 5, 2022, in which the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Transparency located 96 responsive pages; and case 21-F-0946, an earlier request dated May 3, 2021 that sought all emailed communications between Pentagon spokespersons Christopher Sherwood and/or Susan Gough and New York Post journalist Steven Greenstreet, with a search window beginning October 1, 2017.

What makes the release notable is not a formal UAP assessment but the granular texture of the correspondence itself. The…

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