{
  "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",
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  "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": {
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    "allowed": 20,
    "remaining": -70,
    "overdue": true,
    "running": false
  },
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  "origin": {
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  },
  "campaign": null,
  "backers": null,
  "tags": [
    "UAP",
    "IC",
    "Glomar",
    "tasking"
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      "label": "Agency portal",
      "amount_cents": 0,
      "note": "No carrier cost"
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      "note": null
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    {
      "id": "doc-0118-1",
      "request_id": "ALT-2026-0118",
      "title": "NRO final response — Glomar",
      "pages": 2,
      "redacted_pages": 0,
      "exemptions": [
        "b(1)",
        "b(3)"
      ],
      "vaughn_index": false,
      "released_at": "2026-05-30T15:40:00.000Z",
      "bytes": 340000,
      "ocr": "complete",
      "summary": "A refusal to confirm or deny, citing Exemptions 1 and 3. Published with the same prominence as a release, because on a question this narrow it is the more informative answer."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "co-0118-in-1",
      "direction": "in",
      "channel": "mail",
      "at": "2026-05-30T15:40:00.000Z",
      "from": "National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly VA",
      "to": "Aletheca, ATTN: ALT-2026-0118",
      "subject": "Final response — NRO-2026-00089",
      "excerpt": "The NRO can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or nonexistence of such records is currently and properly classified…",
      "pages": 2,
      "match": {
        "method": "attn-line",
        "confidence": 1,
        "note": "The envelope's ATTN line carried the request id, which the scan OCR'd cleanly. This is why every outbound letter prints its own return address with the id in it."
      },
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    }
  ]
}