National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546-0001
July 10, 20 19
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Mr. Fred Saluga
FOlA: 19-HQ-F-00470
Dear Mr. Saluga:
This is our [mal response to your Freedom ofInfOimation Act (FOIA) request to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), dated April 14, 2019, and received in trus
office on April 15, 2019. Your request states that you seek the following:
all i.nfonnationlincluding pictmes/reports/ and any other infonnation on the vehicle
that crashed at Kecksbmg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965.
It was rep0l1ed that NASA people in white coveralls and NASA emblems were at the
scene. We all know that it was not a UFO, but a space craft that was either oms or
belonged to someone else crashed on that day and was removed on an aIlllY hUCk.
I Imderstand that NASA came to the conclusion that it was a Russian craft. If it was
how did NASA come to that conclusion?
In response to yom request we leamed that NASA was involved in a Freedom of InfoIlllation
Act lawsuit seeking records on the Kecksburg incident in 2003. The FOIA unit conducted a
search of its files to locate the case file with the records that were processed for that
request/lawsuit. The search located one folder with documents that included records NASA
released with some redactions to the FOIA litigant's attomey, and emails and statements
related to the NASA FOIA unit searches for records in response to that lawsuit.
Dming a telephone conversation Nikki Gramian, PI1ncipal Agency FOIA Officer, explained
to you that, with the exception of the one file discussed above, it appears the remaining case
files created in response to the FOIA lawsuit had been desh·oyed pmsuant to the records
retention policy NASA has for its FOIA case files. For yom infOimation, Under 44 USc. §§