How the DoD is keeping tabs on UAP-related FOIA requests
Over the past few months I submitted a couple of FOIA requests to the Naval Safety Center (NAVSAFECEN) about events such as airspace incursions and reports of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft. In January 2021 I filed a new request seeking e.mails between the NAVSAFECEN and the Office of the Secretary of Defense regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. What I discovered in the released documents turned out to be even more intriguing than what I expected initially. The Naval Safety Center maintains the databases and systems that contain all hazards reports filed by US Navy units and squadrons, including encounters with drones, balloons or UAPs. In May 2020 The Drive 's Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick released 8 hazard reports that they obtained via the FOIA about close encounters that US Navy pilots had with unidentified aircraft and drones over the Atlantic Ocean between 2013 and 2019. However it should be noted that in 2019 the Navy issued new guidelines and instructions to r