U.S. Navy releases 110 pages of UFO/UAP sighting “range fouler” documents via FOIA process


John Greenewald has received a December 2023 release of range fouler reports from the Navy via the FOIA process, and released them on his website The Black Vault (click the “Range Fouler Reports, Unknown timeframe, Released December 2023” release). These are new reports that are not known to be previously available elsewhere. The backstory of the release of these reports is available on that same page on The Black Vault. Great work getting these /u/blackvault.

They contain 110 pages of “range fouler” reports from the US Navy where military members describe UAP/UFO sightings.

Direct link to the FOIA PDF.pdf) with the reports.

I have not yet reviewed all these reports, but despite being heavily redacted there’s still some semi-interesting stuff in here at first glance. I will update this post with notable findings as I notice any, but please feel free to add any you find too in the comments!

A handful of notable observations from these reports (there are more, this is just my personal thoughts):

Several reports describe objects moving counter to the direction of the wind. For example “object traveling east with winds from the west,” and “5 objects traveling east with winds from the west.” Several reports have multiple observers, and/or multiple incidents. “various members of my air wing [redacted] and my squadron [redacted] had multiple observations of mysterious track files with match previous encounters near [redacted]. So far we have had three separate aircraft detect objects on radar during the day today during different at least five different flight events.” Quite a few reports reference visual sightings, not just radar-based observations. Some reports have both radar and visual observations. Some of these observations occur at higher speeds than anything carried by the wind. For example, the report on page 60 in this PDF describes an incident occurring where the reporter’s aircraft “merged with the object low to high with about 350 kts of airspeed.” Some observations describe multiple objects, for example page 65: “I (pilot) noticed 6-8 small [redacted] objects stable in the field of view” Page 87 describes “encountered multiple 10-15 small UAVs” In one of the reports on page 53 the aircrew scanned the surface of the water under the UAP and discovered a pod of whales

Observations from others:

“Upon…getting closer to the object, the pilot and WSO both became [REDACTED].”

Some people have asked “what is a range fouler?” which I think is a good question. A range fouler is described on the Black Vault page available here.

“U.S. Navy aviators define a ‘range fouler’ as an activity or object that interrupts pre-planned training or other military activity in a military operating area or restricted airspace.”

The term was originally defined in the ODNI report “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” given to congress in 2021.

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