FOIA
How Top Secret Nuke Sensor Data Confirmed the First Interstellar Object on Earth
A freedom of information act request unearthed emails from the Los Alamos National Lab as they struggled to balance secrecy and scientific discovery.
I Filed 136 Public Records Requests With Police and Learned Why Our System Is Broken
Four months after filing the identical, simple requests, only half provided responsive records.
'The Truth Is Out There': The Emails NASA's UFO Investigators Got From Scientists and the Public
NASA documents obtained by Motherboard show the agency's UFO study gaining wide interest from other scientists and people with stories to tell.
NASA Says ‘UFO’ Spotted Crashing in Las Vegas Was a Small Meteor; Cops Say They Hope to Find Aliens
After police and citizens saw a bright meteor in the sky, cops unsuccessfully stalked what witnesses said were beings with glowing eyes nearly 10 feet tall.
SpaceX Asked FAA to Block Tracking of Elon Musk's Private Jet
The request asked for “FAA source blocking,” which is the most stringent type of flight-data blocking the FAA does.
Texas School Performs Worst-Ever Redaction of a Public Record
The impressively bad redaction was so bad we can only show you a minor detail of it and an artist’s rendition.
Mysterious 'Difficulties' Prevent Secretive Nuclear Lab From Releasing Records on First Known Interstellar Object to Land on Earth
Los Alamos National Laboratory has been beset with delays in its attempts to locate records that may relate to the suppression of information about the extrasolar visitation.
US Government Claims Release of Information on Chinese Mystery Seeds Would Compromise Years-Long Investigation
The USDA is still investigating the "Chinese mystery seeds," years after saying they were harmless, according to a Motherboard FOIA request.
Body Cam Footage Shows Meat Scion John R. Tyson Asleep in Stranger's Bed
Tyson was arrested in Fayetteville earlier this month after allegedly drunkenly entering a woman's house and falling asleep. Motherboard obtained video through a public-records request.
New York City Housing Authority Randomly Sends Tenant’s Private Financial Data to Reporter
NYCHA asked Motherboard to “please ignore and delete” the sensitive records it had sent, which no one had asked for.
Uvalde School District Claims It Doesn't Possess Video Taken Day of School Shooting
A private law firm hired by Uvalde's school district asserts it doesn't have widely-viewed footage taken the day of the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Read NASA’s Internal Discussions of UFOs in Newly Released Documents
A FOIA request revealed internal NASA emails about UAPs/UFOs, including an invite to an event called, "Extreme Acceleration by UAPs”