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CBP

US Customs and Border Protection

Closed Hume's first El Paso object FOIA as insufficiently described; he resubmitted with news links and had not received a response as of August 2026.

Files

CBP · 2026

Pending

CBP incident report — El Paso object

No response as of August 2026. Hume was interested in mixed official messaging; Weinstein questioned the story on Rogan; Coulthart's sources said not drone or balloon.

Open record

Names

Ross Coulthart

Journalist

Sources told Coulthart the El Paso object was not a drone or balloon. Hume had already FOIA'd CBP for the incident report after messy official messaging.

Cases

2026

El Paso object — CBP FOIA

First request bounced, resubmit unanswered

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