FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
"I think it's time to open the books on
questions that have remained in the dark; on the question of government investigations
of UFOs. It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.
We ought to do it because it's right; we ought to do it because the American
people quite frankly can handle the truth; and we ought to do it because it's
the law."
John
Podesta speaks on behalf of this initiative, Oct. 2002
THE CONCLUSION OF THE NASA LAWSUIT 
Concerning the Kecksburg, PA UFO case of 1965
Leslie Kean’s November, 2009 paper wraps up the NASA lawsuit, explaining how the process worked and the results of the search following the landmark 2007 settlement in federal court. The Freedom of Information lawsuit focused on the Kecksburg, PA UFO crash case of 1965. No smoking gun documents were released, but many provocative questions and unresolved contradictions were raised by what we did receive, and by the fact that many files were missing or destroyed. The effort highlights the problems inherent to the use of the Freedom of Information Act in our democracy.
Researcher Stan Gordon (www.stangordon.info) is still investigating the Kecksburg case. If anyone has further information, please contact Stan at paufo@comcast.net or 724 -838-7768; Confidentiality will be maintained if requested.
The Struggle for Government Openness: The NASA lawsuit settlement and the Washington press conference
Leslie Kean's 2008 paper published in MUFON's symposium proceedings. Details about the settlement of the lawsuit are provided (see the 2007 CFI press release), including a partial transcript of a federal judge admonishing NASA, and a discussion of the process of document selection after the search.
"Forty Years of Secrecy: NASA, the Military, and the 1965 Kecksburg Crash"
Detailed piece by Leslie Kean summarizing the Kecksburg case and the CFi investigation to date, published in October, 2005 by the International UFO Reporter (IUR), the journal of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, Volume 30, Number 1. Reproduced with permission of IUR,http://www.cufos.org/index.html
Letters, Kecksburg controversy
Kean responds to a letter from long-time Kecksburg debunker Robert Young, sent to IUR in response to the above piece. As well as addressing the absurd ploys common to many debunkers, her detailed response provides additional, critical new information on the Kecksburg investigation.
IUR, Volume 30, Number 3, May 2006; reproduced with permission of IUR.
What is Freedom of Information?
http://www.amervets.com/warlib6/warlib5u.htm
Complaint against NASA, filed Dec. 9, 2003
See "Campaign News" for more information
NASA Settlement, October 16, 2007
Our FOIA effort on the
Kecksburg, PA incident of 1965
Background on the Kecksburg Case
Kecksburg in context: Why is this case important?
"Unidentified
flying object report touches off probe near Kecksburg"
December 11, 1965
"Army
ropes off area...Unidentified object falls near Kecksburg"
December 11, 1965
Steps in the FOIA process and Kecksburg investigation
Sample letter from our first round of requests
Our first FOIA progress report: December 2002
Second FOIA progress report: June, 2003
Cosmos 96 question settled once and for all
See Campaign News for more of the latest information
Appeal to NASA under the Freedom of Information Act
Letter from the Law Offices of Lobel, Novins & Lamont
The Story
of the NASA Fragology Files
by Stan Gordon
More on MOONDUST officer Richard M. Schulherr
NASA's
response to our appeal, June 18, 2003
"I conclude that, based on the circumstances of this
particlar FOIA process,
the search may not have been fully adequate. . . I will,
therefore, remand
this case to the FOIA Office and direct that the original
request be sent to
all NASA Centers for further processing in accordance with
this appeal."
Complaint
against NASA, filed Dec. 9, 2003
See "Campaign News" for more information
What we're up against
Under
Bush, Expanding Secrecy
The Washington Post
December 22, 2002
by Dana Milbank
Proposed
FOIA Exemption Would Provide National Security Agency With Virtually Unchecked
Power to Keep Records Secret
Press release from the National Security Archives
June 11, 2003
Bush
Orders Millions of Documents to be Kept Secret
Associated Press
March 26, 2003
At
Justice, Freedom Not to Release Information
Washington Post
December 2, 2002
by James V. Grimaldi
The
Day Ashcroft Censored Freedom of Information
San Francisco Chronicle
January 7, 2002
by Ruth Rosen
