{
  "slug": "nro",
  "register": {
    "slug": "nro",
    "name": "National Reconnaissance Office",
    "abbr": "NRO",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "state": "DC",
    "state_name": "District of Columbia",
    "category": "intelligence",
    "agency_type": "component",
    "parent": "dod",
    "parent_name": "Department of Defense",
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/nro",
    "website": "https://pal.foia.gov",
    "reading_room": "https://www.nro.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://pal.foia.gov",
        "label": "Agency FOIA Portal",
        "verified": true
      },
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "foia@nro.mil",
        "label": "Email",
        "verified": false
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "National Reconnaissance Office FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false
      }
    ],
    "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": {
    "requests_filed": 18,
    "median_days_to_determination": 96,
    "statutory_business_days": 20,
    "late_rate": 61,
    "release_rate": 22,
    "redaction_density": 91,
    "glomar_rate": 39,
    "fee_waiver_rate": 44,
    "appeal_success_rate": 14,
    "source": "Computed from Aletheca filings; not the agency's self-reported Annual FOIA Report."
  },
  "components": [],
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "ALT-2026-0118",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/requests/nro-tasking-uap-references",
      "title": "NRO collection-tasking records referencing unidentified aerial phenomena, 2021–2024",
      "scope": "Records reflecting collection tasking, tasking requests or tasking denials in which unidentified aerial phenomena, unidentified anomalous phenomena, UAP or UFO appear as the subject or justification, 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024.",
      "agency": {
        "slug": "nro",
        "abbr": "NRO",
        "name": "National Reconnaissance Office",
        "jurisdiction": "federal"
      },
      "disposition": "glomar",
      "disposition_label": "Glomar",
      "disposition_tone": "refuse",
      "terminal": true,
      "channel": "portal",
      "postal_service": null,
      "filed_at": "2026-01-22T17:45:00.000Z",
      "perfected_at": "2026-01-24T14:10:00.000Z",
      "closed_at": "2026-05-30T16:00:00.000Z",
      "agency_tracking": "NRO-2026-00089",
      "fee_waiver": "granted",
      "clock": {
        "elapsed": 90,
        "allowed": 20,
        "remaining": -70,
        "overdue": true,
        "running": false
      },
      "visibility": "public",
      "embargo_until": null,
      "origin": {
        "kind": "commission",
        "partner": null
      },
      "campaign": null,
      "backers": null,
      "tags": [
        "UAP",
        "IC",
        "Glomar",
        "tasking"
      ],
      "cost_cents": 1500
    }
  ]
}