File
CBP incident report — El Paso object
US Customs and Border Protection · 2026
Law enforcement
Request
CBP incident report on the El Paso object. First filing closed as insufficiently described; resubmitted with MSM article links (April/May).
Outcome
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 CBP request.
Names on this file
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.
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
Source posts
Public posts by @rgh_ufos. Open may be blocked inside this preview — copy the URL and paste it in a new tab.
- 2026-08-04
I did foia but CBP closed it because they said I didn't describe records sort sufficiently. I resubmitted which included a link to MSM articles and haven't heard back since.