Every black bar on a declassified UAP mission report carries a small code. The codes are not secret — they are defined in public law (Executive Order 13526 and the Freedom of Information Act) — and they tell you what kind of secret each redaction is keeping, even when the content itself stays hidden.
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| Code | Legal basis | What it protects |
|---|---|---|
1.4a | E.O. 13526 §1.4(a) | Military plans, weapons systems, or operations — callsigns, coordinates, operation names, unit movements. |
(b)(1) | FOIA Exemption 1 | Information that remains classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy. |
(b)(6) | FOIA Exemption 6 | Personal privacy — the names and identifying details of the people who filed and appear in the report. |
3.5(c) | E.O. 13526 §3.5(c) | Marking associated with the Mandatory Declassification Review process the file went through. |
1.4a. The government is willing to say its crews saw something; it will not say
what was around them when they did.Each case page below shows the actual released document. Look for the codes beside each bar:
Sources: Executive Order 13526 · FOIA.gov · documents from the U.S. government's 2026 PURSUE release (war.gov/UFO). All documents authentic; narration in the video is AI-generated text-to-speech.