The Sol Foundation UAP Data and Records Request Initiative

A Targeted Approach to Locating and Declassifying UAP Records

An enduring problem of US government secrecy surrounding UAP is the dearth of publicly available, pertinent federal records, whether written or in the form of images of other data, containing terms and phrases that may indicate information concerning UAP, including “UFO” and “Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings” (CIRVIS). The President’s directives concerning UAP transparency and the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) initiative has yielded some new records, but not to the extent that could be hoped for, particularly given that previous FOIA requests in the 1970s yielded records from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the State Department, while whistleblower testimony indicates that more such records exist but must be located or relinquished prior to declassification. 

One explanation for the limited number of publicly known UAP records is that most federal agencies do not have dedicated staff to service and respond to FOIA requests, and the methods employed for records searches can be ad hoc and ineffective. To circumvent this problem and potentially support the PURSUE initiative’s work, a team of experts at the Sol Foundation are utilizing a novel methodology to make targeted records requests to relevant intelligence and other agencies, including some neglected in prior UAP-focused FOIA requests. Our intention is to locate records concerning publicly known individual UAP events, serial UAP events, and UAP waves as well as unreported events that may have been registered by government sensors and become known to the intelligence community.  

We additionally intend to further our work with the UAP Science Advisory Council by submitting parallel records requests directly to its points of contacts in government, which could yield unanticipated, scientifically analyzable data.       

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