When I sent my Feb. 13, 2009, FOIA request to the headquarters of the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, D. C. (see Item 2.18), I also CC'ed an electronic copy to their Kennedy Space Center (foia@ksc.nasa.gov). The request centers on what does NASA know - and when did it know it? - about the Sept. 15, 1968, UFO-E.T. encounter near the Kennedy Space Center, as recounted in JE Oglesby's 2008 memoir "Proof of Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Cape Canaveral Apollo Program Chronicles."

 By her April 15, 2009, response to my request (No. FOIA-09-HQ-F-0081), freedom-of-information officer Kellie N. Robinson displays the good ol' college try in processing my case:

 "The NASA Headquarters History Office and the NASA Headquarters Library conducted a search and from their searches provided the enclosed document responsive to your request.

 "The NASA Headquarters FOIA Requester Service Center also conducted a search and from that search provided a copy of the Concepts for Detection of Extraterrestrial Life (Report number NASA SP-56 [dated 1964]) and additional information regarding UFO's that may be of interest to you.

 "Additional documents responsive to your request, if available, would be maintained at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Kennedy Space Center, Florida. We are forwarding your request to the KSC FOIA Requester Service Center for direct reply to you."

 Although none of us in the UFO-research community would've been holding our breath over the expected outcome of the NASA records search, we do find from Robinson's few hundred pages of material several valuable tidbits of useful history - not the least of which is a photocopy of former NASA employee Richard C. Henry's essay "UFOs and NASA" (published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration - Vol. 2, No. 2; 1988). The paper's abstract states that it "offers a partial inside look at how that decision was made at NASA" [to reject President Carter's science advisor's 1977 recommendation "that a small panel of inquiry be formed by NASA to see if there had been any new significant findings on UFOs since the . . . [USAF 'Condon Report'] a decade earlier."

 Robinson's packet also contains several pieces of congressional correspondence (mainly responding to constituents' inquiries about the White House's science advisor's recommendation).

 A number of pages consist of indexed bibliographic summaries of various technical papers/reports/monographs from worldwide sources. One of these - a 1995 conference paper from the Los Angeles-based Aerospace Corp. - reveals that "the workshop reported on in this paper had as its main task the coordination of the definition and design of the Untethered Flying Observer (UFO). The UFO is conceived to be a free-flying vehicle hosted on a larger satellite." Now, imagine this prospect: a (U.S.-made) "UFO" capturing images of a genuine UFO that just might be observing the host satellite.

 During my wait for the KSC response to my FOIA request, Oglesby's case has ripened into an ideal candidate for seeking further whistleblowership -- namely via the following classified ad now posted on the inetgiant.com web site (as http://tinyurl.com/lvt6en ):

 == $1,000 REWARD for Verifiable Evidence of NASA's Coverup of the UFO-E.T. Experience at Kennedy Space Center ==

 If Floridian JE Oglesby is telling the truth in his 2008 memoir ("Proof of Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Cape Canaveral Apollo Program Chronicles" - published by lulu.com), then perhaps his bust needs to be carved into Mount Rushmore. Near the end of his little homespun tome, he recounts how, during the evening of Sunday, September 15, 1968, he and two other men encountered a landed alien spacecraft at the shoreline of Lake Pickett (near the town of Bithlo, several miles west of the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.). Part of that encounter included the three witnesses' noticing a rendezvous between the E.T. craft and an official-looking, dark-colored sedan presumed to contain U. S. government personnel. (No wonder former astronaut Edgar Mitchell recently has reiterated his contention that certain NASA officials have had a key role in maintaining the official coverup of UFO-E.T. reality!) If you (or someone you know) possess verifiable evidence confirming Oglesby's case, and are willing to have an ad-hoc panel of UFOlogical experts submit that smoking gun for vetting by the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, you (or (s)he) may qualify for a cash reward of $1,000 from me. Please send to me any applicable sworn declarations and "leaked" documentation (including photographic material, audio recordings, minutes of meetings, videotaped deathbed confessions, etc.), as follows: Larry W. Bryant, director of the Washington, D. C., office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy; 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net .
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