Barry J Greenwood
Barry J. Greenwood is a prominent UFO researcher and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) advocate who co-authored Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience with Lawrence Faucet. The book, published in 1984, is a landmark work documenting government secrecy surrounding UFO investigations and includes primary source documentation obtained through FOIA requests.
| Role | UFO researcher; FOIA advocate; co-author |
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Clear Intent and NORAD FOIA Requests
Clear Intent contains an extremely important section on UFOs and FOIA, including documentation of early attempts to obtain UAP tracking data from NORAD. The book includes:
- A scanned NORAD UAP reporting sheet — demonstrating that NORAD had official protocols for UFO reports
- NORAD's cost-prohibitive FOIA response — When Greenwood and Faucet requested UAP tracking data, NORAD responded that fulfilling the request would require over 118,000 man-hours and cost $155,000 (in 1979 dollars, equivalent to well over $500,000 today)
NORAD Fee Waiver Denial
Three years after the initial request, Greenwood and Faucet submitted a follow-up request asking NORAD to waive the exorbitant fees. NORAD refused, effectively making the UAP tracking data financially inaccessible to civilian researchers.
Significance
Greenwood's documentation establishes that NORAD possessed extensive UAP tracking data as early as the 1970s — data so voluminous that processing it would require over 100,000 man-hours. This aligns with J. Allen Hynek's 1967 statement that NORAD had been tracking UFOs since 1957 and that all continental US military UFO cases in Project Blue Book were designated as NORAD cases.
The pattern of NORAD using cost barriers to prevent disclosure — documented by Greenwood in 1979 and continuing through John Greenewald's 2013 and 2023 denials — demonstrates a consistent decades-long policy of preventing public access to space-based and ground-based UFO tracking records.