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Case · 2018 / released 2025–26

Clinton Nuclear Power Plant UAVs, 2018

FBI denied, then released after an NRC appeal

Clinton, IllinoisCalifornia plant (likely Diablo Canyon)

Hume forced the FBI to reverse a no-records claim by quoting an NRC document that named the Bureau as investigator. The file — witness statements, an IDNR launch-site map with nobody there, multi-night lights, dismissed operators, a fully redacted lead, and a closed-but-unresolved NRC status — also points at a second 2017/18 California plant incident.

Findings

Each line is tagged as a FOIA outcome, something someone told Hume, open literature, a leak, or Hume's own reading. Do not treat the last as a document.

  1. 01FOIA outcome

    Classic FOIA lesson: a named-agency document beats a no-records letter.

  2. 02FOIA outcome

    Objects: nights of 1 hovering ~1 hour; later 3–5; then ~5 at higher altitude so only lights visible. No photos in the file.

  3. 03FOIA outcome

    Air Police late; National Guard Doppler nothing significant; IDNR believed launch site empty.

  4. 04FOIA outcome

    Two possible operators (robotics firm; 'some guy') dismissed; another suggestion fully redacted; closing line that named group/individuals do not warrant investigation — also redacted.

  5. 05FOIA outcome

    NRC case closed, unresolved. Hume still hunting the original NRC folder and the California plant (Diablo Canyon guess).

  6. 06Hume's reading

    Timeline: all before the 2019 Navy UAP videos.

Files

FBI · 2018 / released 2025–2026
Partial

FBI file — Clinton Nuclear Power Plant UAV incidents (2018)

File released after appeal, later a printout addendum. Witness statements, IDNR launch-site map (no vehicle found), 3–5 objects with one hovering ~1 hour, Air Police late, National Guard Doppler insignificant. Two possible operators dismissed; another lead fully redacted. Assessment: named group/individuals 'does not warrant further investigation' — names redacted. Closed at NRC but unresolved. Mentions a related 2017/18 California plant (Hume thinks Diablo Canyon). No photographs captured.

Open record

NRC · 2018
Partial

NRC folder — Clinton NPP drones, unresolved

The document that won the FBI appeal. Hume was still trying to get the original NRC folder back, including the California plant reference.

Open record

Names

RG Hume

Independent FOIA researcher

UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.

Agencies

Source posts

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  • 2025-10-06

    FBI file that they originally denied any records of but after I appealed with NRC document naming the FBI as investigators they released.