From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   At a time that other govt agencies are quietly releasing their backlogs of UFO   
   videos and reports it seems the Pentagon is increasingly anxious to keep any   
   material from public gaze by classifying documents exempt from FOI release   
   because they relate to "   
   ongoing investigations by law enforcement agencies".   
      
      
      
   The Black Vault reports recent FOI requests continue to be stymied   
   by new and creative uses of exemptions listed in the relevant laws.   
      
   Among others is an exemption from releasing even redacted versions   
   of documents matching requests because they pertain to "ongoing    
   nvestigations".   
      
   While the BV has argued the Pentagon, the AARO (UFO office), and other   
   agencies he lodged requests for documents related to  UFO keywords and   
   phrases  are not   
   law enforcement agencies  and it  seems the Pentagon has broadened the use   
   of the strategy to encompass more and more documents it can now refuse to   
   release or even acknowlege the existence of.   
      
   John Greenwald quips unless   
   the Inspector General is   
   thinking to prosecute    
   the  US govt for hiding UFO information all these years, he cant thin of how   
   documen   
   ts he's been requesting   
   can qualify under the exception.   
      
   It seems disclosure bills in the pipeline will not overcome the   
   various levels of exemption from public gaze and some experts   
   say effectively nothing will come of it.   
      
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     DoD Amplifies UFO Secrecy Yet Again: Additional Exemptions Reinforce "Law    
     Enforcement" Claim   
     John Greenewald   
     October 2, 2023   
        
     The Department of Defense (DoD) upheld (b)(7)(A) and (b)(7)(E) exemptions in    
     response to six FOIA appeals filed by The Black Vault challenging the    
     classification of UAP information under law enforcement exemptions.   
     During the appellate review, the DoD introduced additional exemptions not    
     previously cited, including those covering classified information on    
     intelligence activities and matters exempted from release by statute.   
     Despite multiple attempts to obtain a comment from a DoD spokesperson    
     regarding these developments, no response has been received after months of    
     attempts, continuing the trend of governmental secrecy surrounding UAP    
     phenomena.   
     The introduction of new exemptions presents heightened challenges for The    
     Black Vault should the decision to litigate for information release be taken.   
      
   --   
   [Secret UFO recovery program blown open:]   
   I hope this revelation serves as an ontological shock sociologically   
   and provides a generally uniting issue for nations of the world to   
   re-assess their priorities.   
   -- David Grusch, 05 Jun 2023   
   [Talking to Les Kean et al for The Debrief, Grusch called for an end to   
   nearly a century of global UFO secrecy and warned that humanity needed to   
   prepare itself for "an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario"].   
      
   Mysteries in the Sky: Hundreds in Maryland report UFO sightings as Congress,   
   NASA investigate, push for transparency   
   CBS News, 02 Oct 2023 16:02Z   
   Almost two thousand people in Maryland have reported seeing something   
   unexplained in the sky over the past two decades.   
      
   Spielberg Netflix Doc Details UFO Sighting the Size of '17 Football Fields'   
   Pop Culture, 02 Oct 2023 16:02Z   
   Throughout the months-long ordeal, witnesses reported seeing the UFO   
   hovering above campfires and flying past major highways, with pilot and   
   businessman Steve Allen saying that on the Jan. 8 incident, ...   
      
   Declassified 'X-files' show Winston Churchill ordered UFO cover-up to   
   prevent 'panic'   
   Daily Express, 02 Oct 2023 16:01Z   
   The wartime prime minister is said to have ordered a complete reporting ban   
   on an RAF crew's alleged sighting in order to ...   
      
   UFOs in Brazil, the official story   
   El País in English, 30 Sep 2023 18:18Z   
   Reports on the more than 700 unidentified flying objects investigated by the   
   Air Force for more than 60 years are available at the National Archives for   
   researchers and the curious.   
      
   NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System   
   NASA, 30 Sep 2023 04:47Z   
   [There was a bit of a struggle between the bean-counters that ordered   
   the probe should be assigned to study the solar wind and the   
   scientists that wanted to study new asteroids or other things out   
   there past Neptune. At one point the scientists thought they had   
   control. Then an announcement was made the probe would be re-assigned   
   to a mundane task others felt was handled by other probes anyway.  The   
   reason given was there was nothing much to see out there and the probe   
   was wasted on looking for new stuff.  After some months it looks like   
   the needle has swung back to the original exploratory mission. NH has   
   seen a few interesting things and been subject to several unexplained events].   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)