FOIA Release Sheds Light on Five Eyes UAP Collaboration

AARO Withholds UAP Records Under Privacy Exemption

The Department Division issued a final response on June 13, 2024, to requester Grant Lavac, closing out FOIA case number 23-F- and its NASA counterpart, 23-00558-F-HQ. C. § 552 (b)(6), the FOIA provision covering personal privacy.

The stated rationale is that disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of individuals. That single citation is the hinge of the release. The record at issue is small — two pages, received by the DoD from NASA on June 29, 2023, following Lavac's June 5, 2023 request — yet the exemption was applied after AARO, a component of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, conducted its own review.

The letter notes that the foreseeable harm standard was considered when reviewing records and applying exemptions, language that signals the withholding was weighed rather than reflexive. Fees for processing fell below the threshold requiring payment, though the response warns that…

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