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    "name": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
    "local_name": null,
    "abbr": "AARO",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "state": "DC",
    "state_name": "District of Columbia",
    "country": null,
    "country_code": null,
    "category": "intelligence",
    "agency_type": "component",
    "parent": "dod",
    "parent_name": "Department of Defense",
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/aaro",
    "website": "https://www.aaro.gov",
    "reading_room": "https://www.aaro.gov/foia/reading-room",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "federal-foia",
      "citation": "5 U.S.C. § 552",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 90
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.foia.gov/agency-search.html",
        "label": "National FOIA Portal",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": "National FOIA Portal, HTTP 200 check 2026-09-03",
        "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": "high",
        "instructions": "File via the National FOIA Portal agency search (verified live); select this agency to route."
      },
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "osd.foia@mail.mil",
        "label": "Email",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": "carried over; mailbox never confirmed",
        "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": true,
        "reliability": "medium",
        "instructions": "Email with 'FOIA Request' in subject line; include fee waiver language."
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208",
        "label": "Postal Mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": "address never confirmed; use certified mail",
        "last_checked": "2026-09-03",
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": "medium",
        "instructions": "Certified mail with return receipt recommended for paper-first offices."
      }
    ],
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      "verified_channels": [
        "portal"
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      "domain_verified_channels": [],
      "automatable_channels": [],
      "recommended_channel": "portal",
      "checked_at": "2026-09-03",
      "notes": "Route via recommended_channel; confirm endpoint before bulk filing."
    },
    "holdings": [
      "correspondence",
      "contracts",
      "reports",
      "emails",
      "memoranda",
      "data",
      "policies"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "Be specific on date range and custodians",
      "Cite public-interest fee waiver and news-media status if applicable",
      "Request Vaughn index for withholdings",
      "Ask for rolling release"
    ],
    "tracking": "Agency tracking number via acknowledgement letter; check PAL or agency portal.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Imported from AlethecaData. Institutions are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified. See /coverage."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "ALT-2026-1057",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/requests/aaro-legacy-case-holdings-and-analytic-products-on-the-13-ma-x3cq66-2026-1057",
      "request_group_id": "dfdade11-85e1-464d-9153-39f292fca876",
      "request_group_position": 3,
      "title": "AARO legacy-case holdings and analytic products on the 13 March 1997 Phoenix, Arizona event",
      "scope": "All records held by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office concerning the 13 March 1997 Arizona / Phoenix Lights event, 1 July 2022 to the present, including: any case file, case-resolution memorandum, resolution worksheet or insufficient-data determination; the portion of the research files and source citations compiled for the Historical Record Report (Volume I) that relates to the 1997 Phoenix event or to Air National Guard flare-drop explanations of civilian sightings; any legacy records inherited from predecessor efforts (UAP Task Force, AOIMSG) on the event; and any correspondence with the FAA, the Department of the Air Force or the National Guard Bureau seeking 1997 Arizona radar, sortie or flare records.",
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        "slug": "aaro",
        "abbr": "AARO",
        "name": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
        "jurisdiction": "federal"
      },
      "disposition": "review",
      "disposition_label": "In review",
      "disposition_tone": "open",
      "terminal": false,
      "channel": "portal",
      "postal_service": null,
      "filed_at": null,
      "perfected_at": null,
      "closed_at": null,
      "agency_tracking": null,
      "fee_waiver": "pending",
      "clock": null,
      "visibility": "public",
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      "origin": {
        "kind": "commission",
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      },
      "external_ref": null,
      "location": null,
      "campaign": null,
      "backers": null,
      "tags": [],
      "cost_cents": 1500
    }
  ]
}