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Posted by: Alejandro Rojas
May 18, 2016

While searching for the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) UFO files, a researcher using the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA), recently received the FAAs procedures for taking UFO reports.
John Greenewald runs TheBlackVault.com,
a website where he posts the millions of pages of government
files he has received via FOIA requests. He began seeking these files when he was
still a high school
student in 1996.
In April, Greenewald sent a FOIA request asking for their
UFO files.
Specifically, Greenewald wrote: I respectfully request a
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copy of records, electronic or otherwise, of ALL FAA

manuals, regulations and
publications that deal with,
or mention, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and/or
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and/or Unexplained

Phenomena, and/or any other derivative that may be

used the your agency.
This would include, but not be
limited to, all manuals, publications and/or instructions
that pertain to pilots (commercial or otherwise), Air
Traffic Controllers, or employees of the FAA.
A few days later, on April 18, Greenewald got a reply. He
received a portion of a document called the Aeronautical
Information Manual: Official Guide to Basic Flight
Information and ATC Procedures. Apparently, it is the
latest version of these instructions, and it took effect on
December 10, 2015.

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John Greenewald speaking at the

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The first page provided comes from the Safety, Accident, and Hazard Reports section of the manual.
Section 7-6-4, deals with reporting UFOs.

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a. Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a

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Another page of the manual is also included. Section 8 of the manual appears to be dedicated to UFO
reports. However, it just repeats the same verbiage found in 7-6-4.

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AIM Section 8 on UFO reporting. (Credit: FAA)

Incidentally, a Section 8 is also the term for a military discharge due to being deemed mentally unfit for
service. I was
once told by a man claiming to have worked for the North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD) at Cheyenne Mountain while in the Air Force, they also called UFOs caught on radar a
Section 8s.
Either way, these few pages from the AIM document are all Greenewald was sent.
In the past, the FAA also has referred people Bigelow Aerospace to report UFO sightings (including myself),
and the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP). The prior, Bigelow

Aerospace, has since been preoccupied with an inflatable space module that is now being tested on the
International Space Station. So it is no
surprise they are not listed anymore. However, the later, NARCAP,
still
focuses on pilot reports.
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show ran out of Davenport, Washington. NUFORC was founded in 1974, and is currently ran by Peter
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There are many stories of the FAA receiving UFO reports, so it is a little strange that these few pages are
all that Greenewald received. I asked Greenewald if he was disappointed.
It is a little disappointing, but not necessarily a surprise, Greenewald responded. Just because the term

UFO does not appear in a manual or regulation, that doesnt necessarily mean that a pilot or FAA official
has not reported anything of substance. I dont take the outcome of this FOIA request as the final answer,
and I am still pursuing other avenues to see if that agency has any other documents that we should know

about.

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FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Matthew G. Bisanz/Wikimedia Commons)

Greenewald, an experienced, and persistent, FOIA user, plans to pursue other avenues to attempt to ferret
out more UFO secrets from the FAA.
I think it is very likely that there are other records to be found, but what is very difficult about the
Freedom of Information Act, and the FAA specifically, is that there are quite a few regional offices
and
locations that the documents could exist at, Greenewald explained. It is not uncommon for an agency
that large, with so many places to look, to make it very difficult to find records. You essentially have to file
a request to each and every regional location or branch. That does not mean I havent, or wont, just

saying that it does make it that much more difficult.

Greenewald points out that although the FAA seems to have no interest in UFOs, they probably should.
Its concerning that the FAA is not interested in a UFO report. Why wouldnt they be? In this day and age
we live in, I would think that something unidentified in the sky would, and should, be of great interest.
Especially, if pilots are reporting UFOs over one of the busiest airports in the United States, like in one of
the most famous, and credible, UFO sightings related to commercial air travel. Watch the videos below for
more on that.

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ABOUT ALEJANDRO ROJAS

Alejandro Rojas is a radio host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open
Minds magazine as well as OpenMinds.tv. For
several years Alejandro was the official
spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a
UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field

investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media
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