NSA (National Security Agency)
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| Country | United States |
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| Parent department | Department of War |
| Established | 1952 |
| Status | Active |
| Status | Active |
The National Security Agency holds a body of classified signals-intelligence material that has periodically intersected with UAP investigation, most notably through a long-running FOIA lawsuit by researcher Michael Ravnitzky and CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy) that resulted in limited declassifications during the 1970s-80s.
Current role
The agency’s most direct current connection to the subject is personnel: current AARO director Jon Kosloski is a physicist who spent most of his career at NSA before his 2024 appointment, and the office draws on NSA-adjacent technical analytic tradecraft for signals and sensor data review.
Secrecy disputes
Researchers have long argued that NSA holds additional relevant material beyond what has been released, a claim the agency has neither substantively confirmed nor denied beyond standard national-security withholding justifications in FOIA litigation.
[1]See also
References
- ^ National Security Agency, FOIA case files released to Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), 1980.
- ^ AARO, “About/Leaders” biography pages, aaro.mil.