NASA's FOIA Response Reveals Internal UAP Communications
NASA's recent FOIA response highlights the agency's ongoing engagement with UAP topics, revealing internal communications and investigations.
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NASA's recent FOIA response highlights the agency's ongoing engagement with UAP topics, revealing internal communications and investigations.
The DoD has no overarching UAP policy and, as a result, it lacks assurance that national security and flight safety threats to the United States from UAP have been identified and mitigated.
Anomalous Science & Communication
In 1963, Dumitru Bacu published a harrowing account of a secret re-education experiment in Romanian prisons, where university students were systematically broken down using Pavlovian conditioning. The introduction by Warren B. Heath frames this as a landmark in the study of 'psychopolitics.'
A partially redacted Navy FOIA response released to The Black Vault documents a classified January 2019 briefing in which an F/A-18 pilot from VFA-103 described an anomalous aerial vehicle detection event off the U.S. east coast to Senate Armed Services Committee staff — who pressed for details on the object's shape, radar detection, and the chain of custody of encounter video.
A formerly classified NASA Gemini 5 technical debriefing transcript, prepared by the Spacecraft Operations Branch in 1965, records astronauts Cooper and Conrad describing countdown, powered flight, and insertion — including POGO vibration, window fogging, and a lost radio. The document appears in a UAP-oriented release collection despite containing no anomalous content.
Witness 3, a U.S. federal law enforcement special agent, reported seeing a large orange orb that expelled three smaller red orbs and, on a separate occasion, four red lights hovering over an airfield while a vehicle below flashed its headlights and then seemingly floated off the road across rough terrain.
A declassified 1965 NASA Gemini 5 crew debriefing transcript, marked CONFIDENTIAL and set for declassification after 12 years, includes a table-of-contents entry for '10.0 VISUAL SIGHTINGS' and experiments on 'Visual Definition of Celestial Objects (D-1)' and 'Nearby Object Photography (D-2)' — though the provided text covers only spacecraft systems discussion.
AARO assessed that the UAPs in this case were almost certainly commercial aircraft travelling on well-established air corridors as far as 300 nautical miles from the platform, based on a thorough review of the data by multiple analytical and scientific entities.
AARO assessed that the UAP reported in these three cases almost certainly were not exhibiting anomalous propulsion or atmospheric wakes, rather the observed effect was the result of a sensor artifact in all cases.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has determined that certain information requested under FOIA is exempt from public release due to national security concerns.
A 1949 memorandum reveals that the US Army's evaluation of flying saucer reports found no evidence of foreign involvement.
The AARO's assessment of the 'Go Fast' incident indicates that the object did not exhibit anomalous performance, with speeds attributed to environmental factors.