{"id":21015,"date":"2025-11-21T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=21015"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:52:09","slug":"pentagon-calendar-lists-an-aatip-era-meeting-but-all-supporting-records-are-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/pentagon-calendar-lists-an-aatip-era-meeting-but-all-supporting-records-are-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Calendar Lists an AATIP-Era Meeting \u2014 But All Supporting Records Are Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOIA Response Letter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A newly released Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has revealed that no records exist for an August 28, 2017, meeting listed on the official calendar of Neill Tipton<\/a>, then Director for Defense Intelligence, Collection and Special Programs.<\/p>\n

The finding stands in contrast to an earlier FOIA-released calendar showing the meeting was scheduled as an UNCLASSIFIED \u201cSAP Coordination Meeting,\u201d with a point-of-contact phone number matching one found on Luis Elizondo\u2019s DD Form 1910 request to release three Navy UFO videos back in 2017.<\/p>\n

OSD\u2019s \u201cno records\u201d determination, issued today to The Black Vault under FOIA case 24-F-0839, asserts that a search of OUSD(I&S) systems \u201ccould reasonably be expected to produce the requested records if they existed,\u201d but that none were identified when it came to seeking out records relating to the meeting.<\/p>\n

The Black Vault immediately appealed the decision, arguing that the agency overlooked evidence already released under FOIA case 20-F-1026, as filed by Lt. Tim McMillan<\/a>, co-founder of The Debrief<\/a>, which documented the meeting on Tipton\u2019s official schedule.<\/p>\n

That release to McMillan showed:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSAP Coordination Meeting (UNCLASSIFIED) \u2014 Luis, 571-2393.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The same phone number appears on Elizondo\u2019s DD Form 1910 as his Pentagon office line at the time he submitted UFO videos known today as \u201cFLIR1,\u201d \u201cGimbal,\u201d and \u201cGoFast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The presence of the phone number in both documents, combined with a claim in Elizondo\u2019s DoD IG complaint that he briefed Tipton in the July\u2013October 2017 period, has fueled long-standing questions about whether the meeting took place, what it was about, and now, why OSD says no records exist.<\/p>\n

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The Tipton calendar released in FOIA case 20-F-1026 spans August 2017 and includes a clear entry at 12:55 p.m. on August 28, 2017, indicating a meeting took place between Tipton, and likely Elizondo himself.<\/p>\n

These types of calendar entries are government records typically retained within OUSD(I&S) systems, which generally indicate that related materials exist such as:<\/p>\n