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requeste r that may provide assistance in your search. Please review the lette r s once you
have received them in the mail.
All resp:msive records (regardless of whether they are releasable under the FOIA) should be
sent to poe: Stephen McConnell, NASA FOIA Officer.
Your search should i nclude the library, program offices, Directors offices, and other officel:l, as
appropriate , alJ repositories of classified documents, any archives (onsite and offsite ), and the
FOrA office (send all FO[A files of any previous reque sts made by others on the same subject).
Please be thorough.
Records sought include :
1. All data of whatever form , including correspondence, telegraphic, electronic, photogra phs,
scientific rep:Jrts, analyses or tests such as metallurgic analysis, collection re cords,
interviews with civilians relating or referring to:
·-A December 9 or December 10, 1965 incident [where an object fell from the sky and crashed]
in or around Kecksburg or anywhere in Western PA [includes references to Kecksburg or
Ke c ksburg incident or Acme]
--all sightings or incidents rep:Jrted to have occurred in the U.S. on or about December 9, 1965
re lating to th is incident.
2 , All NASA Fragology Files for 1962-1967 [NASA Pragology files include reports ofspelce objects
recovery, analysis of fragments to determine national ownership and vehic1e origin].
3 , Any records on Richard M. Schulherr, who is believed to have been a NASA officer
connected to Project Moon Dust in the 1960 s or late r (For example, newspaper accounts
connect Mr. Schulherr with NASA s retrieval and testing of other objects of unknown origin
found or re ported by the publicI.
4 . Any and all records on Project Moon DUst pertaining to the retrieval offoreign objects or
objects of unknown origin by NASA personnel, and/ or the examination or analysis of de bris
sent to NASA by any other agen cies under Project Moon Dust.
5. Any and all records on Cosmos 96, or Kosmos 96, a Soviet satellite and Venus probe that
came down on Dece mber 9, 1965, including NASA s i nvolvement in t he recovery of the
sate llite, pru-ls or de bris thereof, anywhere in the United States or Cnnada
6. A description of the search conducted regarding Ms, Leslie Kean s initial request and any
documentation (e.g., e-mails) relate d thereto
7. a coW of NASA s draft affidavit on FOIA searches or, in lieu thereof, a copy of affidavits that
have been filed on NASA s behalf in FOTA disputes
Printed for Stephen McConnell
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