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FAA records released via FOIA document an encounter between a business jet and an unidentified object over Northern Nevada in May 2025, including ATC audio and logs but with radar data withheld.
A Navy FOIA release reveals emails detailing a March 2022 briefing on the Advance Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and related UAP management synchronization efforts.
The U.S. Navy denied a Freedom of Information Act appeal for 78 classified UAP photographs shortly after Trump called for release of UFO files, according to a Black Vault report.
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released a heavily redacted report on January 7, 2026, documenting a UAP-related whistleblower reprisal investigation involving revocation of classified access that concluded in February 2025.
The Black Vault has archived Luis Elizondo's previously deleted emails, making them available for public review regarding his role in the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
The Pentagon declined to conduct an email search related to the 'Immaculate Constellation' UAP program in response to a FOIA request filed by The Black Vault, raising questions about government transparency obligations.
The Black Vault released classified Department of Energy documents on human subjects research spanning projects from Blue Dragon to Woodstock following a seven-year FOIA wait. The disclosure reveals ethical and legal frameworks governing DOE studies involving direct data collection from living individuals.
The Black Vault reports that the Department of Defense has not yet provided a reply to Senator Harry Reid's 2009 letter regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program protection request.
The Black Vault reports that the Pentagon has reopened a search for an alleged 2023 memorandum (the 'Yankee Blue' memo) after a FOIA appellate decision remanded the case for additional searches.
The Black Vault obtained a Cold War-era National Intelligence Estimate on nuclear weapons proliferation (1963) through a mandatory declassification review, resulting in fewer redactions after a five-year review period.
A Department of Energy FOIA response to a broad UAP-keyword request yielded minimal documents with heavy redactions, limiting transparency on DOE internal communications about unidentified aerial phenomena.
FOIA documents disclose which journalists were privately invited to an embargoed Pentagon roundtable on UAP held in March 2024, tied to the Pentagon's congressionally mandated Historical Record Report.
The Black Vault released an archive of FBI files documenting the surveillance and investigation of scientists and medical professionals, providing insight into FBI monitoring activities.
NASA partially released redacted records from congressional briefings on the James Webb Space Telescope following a FOIA appeal, but key content remains heavily concealed.
The CIA released FOIA documents in April 2025 related to a detention program, completing a request filed by The Black Vault over a decade prior.
The Black Vault released Department of Defense email records from March 11, 2018, retrieved via FOIA request to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force using UAP-related search keywords, though the documents lack substantive internal UAP discussions.
The Black Vault has compiled and archived FBI files on J. Edgar Hoover, the first Director of the FBI (1924–1972).
FCC records obtained via FOIA document the agency's internal and public response to a controversy involving late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, Commissioner Brendan Carr, and First Amendment concerns.