Lawrence Faucet
Lawrence Faucet is a UFO researcher and Freedom of Information Act advocate who co-authored Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience with Barry J. Greenwood. Published in 1984, the book became a foundational text documenting government classification and secrecy surrounding UFO investigations through analysis of declassified documents.
| Role | UFO researcher; FOIA advocate; co-author |
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NORAD FOIA Documentation
Faucet and Barry J. Greenwood conducted extensive FOIA research into NORAD's UAP tracking operations in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their book Clear Intent contains critical documentation of NORAD's response to requests for UFO data:
- NORAD UAP reporting sheet: Official forms demonstrating standardized NORAD protocols for logging UFO reports
- Prohibitive cost response: NORAD's 1979 response stating that fulfilling their FOIA request would require over 118,000 man-hours and cost $155,000 (in 1979 dollars)
- Fee waiver denial: NORAD's refusal to waive fees three years later, making the data effectively inaccessible
Pattern of Denial
The work of Faucet and Greenwood established the baseline pattern of government agencies using classification protocols and cost barriers to prevent disclosure of UFO tracking data — a pattern that continues through John Greenewald's more recent FOIA denials from US Space Force and US Northern Command.
Significance
Faucet's research demonstrated that by the late 1970s, NORAD possessed such voluminous UAP tracking data that processing it would require more than 100,000 man-hours of work. This corroborates J. Allen Hynek's 1967 disclosure that NORAD had been systematically tracking UFOs since 1957, and supports evidence that systems like the Defense Support Program (DSP) have been collecting hard data on Fast Walkers for decades.