Well, I tried to, I tried to cover all of our bases and our team, we filed a FOIA and in 2022, I think it was. Yeah, it was probably 2022. And I'd forgotten about it quite honestly, because it's like years went by. And all of a sudden we get a response from the CIA, which is weird.
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I don't know. I mean, I'm not a huge FOIA guy, but I mean, the CIA, like really? And it's basically like, you know, cause I asked for records. I was thinking like, okay, so let's just like back up. Let's give it like a window of 10 days or whatever. So we know the incident happened. A lot of the sightings were on the 20th of January. So why don't you back it up a little bit?
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And he goes, well, actually, I'm a colonel in the United States Air Force. I was a fighter pilot, blah, blah, blah. And he has since come forward with us. And he had a really dramatic UFO encounter in 1980 or something like that. But he was giving me guidance on like what to ask and where to ask and all that stuff. And blanket statement from the CIA. Basically, that's like either national security classified or exempt from FOIA because of XYZ.
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And this was really interesting. Independently, this researcher FOIA, the Air Force said, does, you know, just asking for information about Project Preserve Destiny. His name is Noah Roddick.
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They forward the FOIA request to the NSA.
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In fact, didn't they say that in my FOIA, right?
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He's like the, you know, UFO FOIA guy and, and was rejected.
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