Paradox of Public Acknowledgment: DoD Reveals Existence of Aerospace Executives' UAP Denials but Withholds Their Contents in a FOIA Glomar Response

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John Greenewald notes that a DoD report publicly acknowledged executives’ denials of crash‑retrieval involvement and that The Black Vault’s FOIA for those statements was denied in full on September 5, 2025 with a Glomar response, and an appeal argues the exemptions don’t apply to finalized denials and that the statements should be released or a Vaughn index provided to reconcile public reporting with FOIA obligations.

DoD Says Aerospace Firms Went “On the Record” About UAP — Then Refuses to Acknowledge Records Exist - The Black Vault
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DoD Says Aerospace Firms Went “On the Record” About UAP — Then Refuses to Acknowledge Records Exist - The Black Vault

In March 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) published publicly its Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) – Volume I. Buried on page 32 was this passage: The language was clear. Not only did the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) meet with aerospace company officials, but those