National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA internal planning on how to announce discovery of extraterrestrial life (2025)
Correspondence · written 2025 · released 1 May 2026
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A FOIA response showing NASA discussions about how the agency would communicate a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life, including a 2025 meeting called to outline a formal communications protocol. It is procedural and dry, which is the point. This is what preparedness looks like on paper.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "NASA internal planning on how to announce discovery of extraterrestrial life (2025)." 2025. Released 1 May 2026. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nasa-documents-show-renewed-internal-planning-on-how-to-announce-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0139).
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