SOURCE: BlackVault — theblackvault.com (Tier 2)
CATEGORY: BUREAUCRACY
CREDIBILITY SCORE: 78/100 | EVIDENCE SCORE: 38/100
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TAGS: aaro, pentagon, ndaa, congressional, foia, archive
Source Excerpt
Newly released records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show which journalists were privately invited to an embargoed, invite-only Pentagon media roundtable on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) held on March 6, 2024. This event tied to the Department of Defense’s first volume of the congressionally mandated Historical Record Report on U.S. government UAP programs. The responsive document, released under FOIA case number 24-F-0895 , consists of the email invitation sent by Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough to a limited list of media recipients, outlining the terms, restrictions, and conditions for participation in the briefing with Acting All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Director Tim Phillips. According to the invitation email, the briefing was described as an “embargoed invited-media roundtable” focused on “ AARO’s Historical Record Report Volume 1 (HRRV1) , the initial volume of the congressionally directed historical record report on U.S. government UAP-related programs”. The report itself was required by Congress in the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which directed the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to produce a comprehensive historical review of U.S. government involvement with unidentified anomalous phenomena dating back decades. The March 6, 2024, briefing was held two days before the public release of the unclassified version of the report. The invitation
Documents
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/osd/24-F-0895.pdf
- https://www.justice.gov/archive/oip/foia_guide09/exemption6.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/osd/24-F-0895.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/osd/24-F-0895.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/osd/24-F-0895.pdf
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