TO:  Director
        National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
        U. S. Department of Defense
        ATTN:  Freedom of Information Manager
        4600 Sangamore Road
        Bethesda, MD  20816-5003

FROM:  Larry W. Bryant
              3518 Martha Custis Drive
              Alexandria, VA  22302

DATE:  January 23, 2011

1.  Reference:  my classified advertisement posted at http://www.classifiedads.com (whose text is printed below this FOIA request).

2.  In my FOIA capacity as a "representative of the news media" (RNM - particularly as a columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine), I hereby submit this e-formatted letter as a freedom-of-information request that you send me a copy of all NGA-originated and NGA-received records regarding the DOD "concerns" revealed by the U. S. State Department's Nov. 9, 2005, cable quoted in my advertisement - said records to include any and all imagery-analysis reports recounting cases of "UFOs entering orbit"; key excerpts from subject imagery that define the detected configurations, illumination, insignia, communications gear/transmissions, and size of the detected UFOs that have managed to enter Earth orbit during the period January 1, 2005, through January 23, 2011; DOD and State Department intelligence-collection directives that focus on "UFOs entering orbit"; and policy-guidance memoranda, executive correspondence, memos for record, e-mail messages, minutes of meetings, briefing charts, staff studies, intelligence estimates, and public-affairs instructions explaining and/or endorsing the high seriousness of any detected UFO orbital entry and of the apparent need for certain State Department officials to prohibit their personnel's discussion thereof.

3.  Please note that my FOIA RNM requester status (duly documented within my blog http://ufoview.posterous.com ) entitles me to full waiver of all your records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request.

4.  By USPS mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

LARRY W. BRYANT

Copies furnished to:

    Editor, UFO Magazine

    Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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TEXT OF LWB's ADVERTISEMENT PUBLISHED AT http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad3856933.htm

== Blow the Whistle on U. S. State Department's Censorship of UFO Discourse! ==

According to the contents of a U. S. State Department "cable" message recently acquired from the wikileaks.ch's huge cache of such official communications, certain State officials have warned their personnel to refrain from discussing (even among themselves) the reality that planet Earth apparently is being reconnoitered by alien spacecraft (aka UFOs).  The document in question, dated Nov. 9, 2005, reportedly was sent to a diplomat at the U. S. embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, stating:  "It is critical all embassy staff understand that they are not to discuss under any circumstance concerns DOD [U. S. Department of Defense] has with UFOs entering orbit, once again the seriousness of this matter cannot be overstated."
Of course, this development brings to mind the 1960's-era notice dispatched by the U. S. Air Force to all USAF inspectors general - titled "Flying Saucers:  Serious Business."  Today's USAF hierarchy insists on (1) denying that it has much interest in tracking saucers/UFOs, cataloging extraterrestrial spacecraft, or interacting with UFOnauts; and on (2) proclaiming that none of its organizational components acts as a "repository for UFO information."  Even so, the leaked State cable is prompting me to seek, via the freedom-of-information request now posted as Item 2.94 of my blog ( http://ufoview.posterous.com ), all pertinent DOD-originated records reflecting the official DOD "concerns" cited by State's 9 Nov 05 cable.
In the meantime, so as to spark an adequate congressional inquiry into this official State revelation and its implications for freedom of speech and transparent governance, I'm asking all prospective whistleblowers to share with me any evidence corroborating State's censorial actions in this "serious" matter of UFO-E.T. reality.  You may contact me at:  Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone:  703-931-3341; e-mail:  overtci@cavtel.net .
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Information is PROPERTY, and public information is PUBLIC property.

Attachment:  UFO Fact Sheet ( http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=188 )
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http://ufoview.posterous.com

"In the realm of UFO-E.T. credibility, which course better suits the interests of careful researchers and the general public:  (a) to reject, with prejudgment, the notion that UFO-encounter witnesses' testimony offers us much scientific and socio-political pay dirt; or (b) to remain skeptical of the government's bureaucratic-corporatized pronouncements that this testimony has no value?" - Lewis Kannon

Malmstrom employee Wayne E. Ford's Jan. 6, 2011, letter to me does reveal the case file's contents - which include his records-search tasking/tracking documents and selected e-mail excerpts from several "action officers" and other points of contact along the paper trail in their processing of my Sept. 30 request (published as Item 2.79).  If you're ready for some of their unsurprising kiss-off commentary (as well as a bit of surprising candor from Mr. Ford), let's begin with Ford's transmittal letter of Jan. 6:

Dear Mr. Bryant:

We received your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated 26 Nov 10 on 8 Dec 10 for the following item(s):

- An entire copy of Command's FOIA Request Case File 2011-00354-F including all action log sheets, tasking documents, agency coordination documents, action officer's processing  notes, memoranda for record, email messages, memoranda of telephone calls, minutes of meetings, and related records-management protocols, correspondence and talking points.

The base action officer has determined to make a release recommendation and a copy of that information is enclosed.

Should you decide that an appeal of this decision is necessary, you must write to the Secretary of the Air Force at the address below in sufficient time so that the appeal reaches us no later than 60 calendar days after the date of this letter.  Include in the appeal your reasons for requesting reconsideration and attach a copy of this letter.  Address your letter as follows:

Secretary of the Air Force
THRU:  341 CS/SCOK (FOIA)
7015 Goddard Drive
Malmstrom AFB, MT 59402-7513

The FOIA provides for collection of fees based on processing a FOIA request.  I originally placed you in the "All other" category, but you corrected me with an email on 27 Dec 10 and so I have corrected your category as "News Media."  There are no assessable fees on this request.

I am at your disposal if you have any questions regarding this request.  My commercial number is 406-731-3235 and my email is wayne.ford@malmstrom.af.mil .

Sincerely,

WAYNE E. FORD, USAF
Freedom of Information Act Manager
FOIA Request 2011-01178-F
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In a Dec. 6, 2010, e-mail message to Malmstrom's security forces officer William W. Burgus (bearing the subject line "FOIA Request (Another One)"), Ford declares:  "I failed to include Security Forces on this FOIA request asking for operations/security plans in dealing with response to UFO intrusions.  I sent this request to MW/XP [the missile wing's plans office] and CES [Installation Office of Emergency Management] (Mr. Shipley who deals with Contingency Plans); both gave a negative response.  However, Mr. Bryant was unhappy with our response and 'almost' suggests a cover-up.  (I'm forwarding his new request for this FOIA Case File 2011-00354-F)."  Burgus's Dec. 8 reply back to Ford states:  "The Security Forces have no plans dealing with UFOs."

For his part in the process, Royce A. Shipley (the base's senior emergency manager) offered a Nov. 1, 2010, memorandum addressed directly to me (but never mailed to me until now).  It carefully (and admittedly) states:  "1.  All 341 CES/CEX record systems [including the unit Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan and the Installation Defense Plan] were searched that are likely to contain any and all readiness plans for dealing with UFO intrusions at Malmstrom AFB.  There are no records maintained by the Installation Office of Emergency Management as relate to the subject matter of this FOIA request.  2.  Records do not exist because the installation only plans for response to credible threats and identifiable hazards."

Next along this route of empty-handedness:  Ford's receipt of a Sept. 27 e-message addressed to several public affairs officers throughout the Air Force Global Strike Command headquartered at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and parent organization of Malmstrom.  (Apparently, someone other than Larry W. Bryant already had energized the GSC damage-control folks.)  The message's sender, Michele M. Tasista, chief of the GSC public affairs office's Executive Issues Division, advises:  "Alcon [all concerned], For your reference and possible referral for any calls on the subject of UFOs, for which the response should be along the lines, 'we don't have anything for you on that,' consider providing the below fact sheet.  Thanks.  http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=188 ."

Of course, this so-called "fact sheet" would benefit from being retitled as a "prop sheet" - propaganda sheet (in all its countless iterations since the 1950s).  In the context of UFO freedom of information and accountability, it has little relevance today.  Besides serving as a tool for stonewalling public inquiry (via a litany of "see no UFO, hear no UFO, speak no UFO"), it also serves to mythicize and marginalize the UFO subject throughout the federal workforce, ad infinitum.

What's the remedy for this kiss-off tactic to deflect uncomfortable FOIA queries about current/future UFO-related incidents?  You guessed it:  the real-time emergence of document-laden whistleblowers motivated to help restore public confidence in the decisionmaking process of our self-governance.

http://ufoview.posterous.com

Thus far, we only can speculate about the answer to the above
question. For, just as with other key federal agencies, dating back
to the founding of the "National Security State" circa 1947, we, alas,
must let the official record, in all its meagerness and convolution,
speak for itself. (Note: without the utility of the U. S. Freedom of
Information Act, that record would be even more sparse, murky,
disjointed, and, yes, mysterious than what we see today.)

Try putting it all into perspective by indulging in the three-volume
milestone produced by historian Richard M. Dolan, whose latest book
(with co-author Bryce Zabel) - "A.D.: After Disclosure: The People's
Guide to Life After Contact"; see http://keyholepublishing.com -
neatly wraps the package for the discerning
reader/researcher/activist.

Meantime, let's focus on where we should go from here (see my
advertisement posted at
http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad3773498.htm ).

When, on May 20, 2009, I filed suit in U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia to compel the FOIA coordinator at the U. S.
Central Ingelligence Agency to fully comply with the Act's mandate
that a FOIA requester deserves to have his/her request fairly
processed via an adequate search for responsive records (see Item 2.32
for the text of my complaint), I had no illusions that the agency
would somehow change its stripes. After all, hadn't that notoriously
recalcitrant servant of the people become an early recipient of the
National Security Archive's "Rosemary Award" for poor FOIA
responsiveness?

But the current U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia apparently
realized the futility of playing the kind of games that had resulted
in the Archive's prevailing in court over the same issues as mine (e.
g., entitlement to a records-search/review-fee waiver as a
"representative of the news media"; and entitlement to a reasonable
search for, and to rational determination as to releasability of,
responsive records).

In my case, the litigation succeeded in locating three documents (one
originating from the U. S. National Security Agency - withheld from me
in toto; the other two originating from the U. S. Department of
State). The two from State consist of "cables" (aka "telexes," TWXs,
and messages). I'm reprinting their substance here, preferring not to
use all-capital lettering:

DATE: September 9, 1987

FROM: American Embassy in Bridgetown [in Barbados]

TO: U. S. Secretary of State [with info copies to several other U. S.
embassies in the Caribbean area, plus to the commander of U. S. Forces
Caribbean (headquartered at Key West, Fla.)]

TITLE: Subject: Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted in - Eastern Caribbean

TEXT: TAGS: EAIR, TSPA, BB

1. Hundreds of witnesses including embassy employees reported seeing
up to seven objects moving at high speed in changing formations over
the southeastern coast near Grantley Adams International Airport
shortly after 8:30 PM on Sept. 1. The sight lasted approximately 45
seconds before the objects disappeared, apparently into the sea.
(According to airport authorities, the UFO's were also seen in St.
Lucia, Grenada, and Martinique.)

2. A LIAT pilot reportedly saw the objects while flying his aircraft
at eight thousand feet; he was "convinced" they were "not man-made."
However, a British Airways pilot felt the UFO's were pieces of a
satellite reentering the atmosphere. Fulgham

END OF MESSAGE - UNCLASSIFIED

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DATE: January 31, 1994

FROM: American Embassy in Dushanbe [in Kajikistan]

TO: U. S. Secretary of State [with info copies to a few other major
U. S. embassies (e.g., Moscow and Beijing), plus to the CIA and the U.
S. Defense Intelligence Agency)]

TITLE: Subject: Tajik Air Pilots Report Unidentified Flying Object

TEXT: TAGS: TSAP, EAIR, TI

1. Tajik Air chief pilot, Amcit [American citizen] Ed Rhodes, and his
two American pilot colleagues reported January 29 that, on January 27,
they had encountered a UFO while flying at 41,000 feet in their Boeing
747SP at Lat 45 North and Long 55 East, over Kazakhstan. They first
encountered the object as a bright light of enormous intensity,
approaching them from over the horizon to the east at a great rate of
speed and at a much higher altitude than their own. They watched the
object for some forty minutes as it maneuvered in circles, corkscrews
and made 90-degree turns at rapid rates of speed and under very high
G's. Captain Rhodes took several photos with a pocket Olympus camera
and will send copies to the embassy and the Tajikistan desk (Lowry
Taylor) in the department, if they come out. After some time, the
object adopted a horizontal high-speed course and disappeared over the
horizon.

2. As it was dark when the object was observed, the crew were unable
to discern its shape. They described the light it emitted as having a
"bow wave" and as resembling a high-speed photo of a bullet in flight,
in which a very small object gives off a much larger trailing wave of
heat/light. Some forty-five minutes after the initial sighting, as
the sun was rising, the aircraft flew under the contrails at
approximately 100,000 feet, noting that there is too little
air/moisture at that extreme altitude to enable the creation of
contrails by the propulsion mechanisms of ordinary aircraft which
might be able to reach that height. The paths of the contrails
reflected the maneuvers of the object, i. e., circles, corkscrews,
etc.

3. To our suggestion that the object might have been a meteor
entering and skipping off the Earth's atmosphere, Rhodes and his crew
were adamant that they had seen thousands of "falling stars" and other
space junk entering the atmosphere in their years of flying passenger
aircraft for Panam. This, they insisted, was nothing like a meteor.
On the basis of its speed and maneuverability, Rhodes expressed the
opinion, which his crew seemed to support, that the object was
extraterrestrial and under intelligent control.

4. Comment: We have no opinion and report the above for what it may
be worth. Escudero

END OF MESSAGE - UNCLASSIFIED

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TEXT OF LWB's ADVERTISEMENT POSTED AT
http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad3773498.htm

== $2,000 Reward for Irrefutable State Dept. Evidence of UFO-E.T. Reality ==

In the absence of a web site called wikiUFOleaks.info, we must enlist
an alternative medium for assessing (and accessing) the depths of
Earthly governments' Deepest Secret - that some of the reported UFO
encounters represent hardware from elsewhere. Accordingly, I'm
willing to contribute $2,000 toward jump-starting a U. S. State
Department-focused UFO-cover-up-whistleblower reward fund.
Accordingly, you're invited to help establish that fund as a public
service in assuring and advancing the public's right-to-know and the
government's duty-to-tell. If the fund's existence attracts
sufficient whistleblowership and evidentiary material (including
notarized deathbed confessions from key principals) as to result in a
federal grand-jury investigation/report of any official misconduct
vis-a-vis the worldwide cover-up of the UFO experience, then a select
panel of evaluators would be convened to determine the reward's
recipient(s). As you weigh prospects for your own participation in
this project, you might find some stimulus for it in my web log's Item
2.88 at http://ufoview.posterous.com . Interested persons may contact
me at: Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA
22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net .

"The undaunted pursuit of UFO Truth can be as addictive as any
chemical substance. But its intellectual and - dare I say it? -
spiritual rewards can last a lifetime, and thus remain a
positive-addiction model from one generation to the next." - Lewis
Kannon (5 Jan 11)