Document Release
Navy Releases 1,300+ Pages of Scott Bray UAP Emails Via FOIA; 302 Pages Withheld in Full
The Department of the Navy released more than 1,300 pages of emails and related records involving former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray on September 23, 2026, following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Black Vault on May 24, 2022. The request, filed under FOIA case number DON-NAVY-2022-008648, sought all emails sent to, from, or copied to Bray containing terms including "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," "UAP," "UAPTF," "UFO," "AATIP," and "AAWSAP." Of the 1,321 responsive pages located, 302 were withheld in their entirety, while 1,019 were released with redactions under multiple FOIA exemptions.
The released records provide extensive documentary insight into the Navy and Pentagon's internal UAP communications during the period in which the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was established and grew into a formal government effort. The correspondence names a wide range of senior officials and covers congressional briefings, public-affairs strategy, the April 2020 release of Navy UAP videos, the 2021 ODNI UAP assessment, classification questions, and media inquiries. Bray himself testified publicly before a House Intelligence subcommittee on May 17, 2022, alongside Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, in the first open congressional UAP hearing in decades.