Pentagon FOIA Response Withholds Portions of 263 UAP Pages

The Department of Defense has responded to a FOIA request, revealing the existence of 263 pages of documents while applying multiple exemptions for withholding information.

Published

September 11, 2026

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Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Pentagon Releases 263 Pages With Redactions Intact

The final response Act request that The Black Vault submitted on May 16, 2020. The Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center logged the request two days later, on May 18, 2020, and assigned it the case number that now appears on the release. What the requester received five years later is a partial disclosure: the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, a component of OSD, searched its records systems and located 263 pages determined to be responsive.

That figure is the one concrete measure of scope the letter provides. It tells the public how many pages the search surfaced, but not what any of them say. C.

§ 552. C. § 424, described in the letter as pertaining to the protection of organizational and personnel information for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Imagery…

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