File
MOD records of communications with AARO
UK Ministry of Defence · 2024–2026
Multiple defence / international-relations sections
Request
Does the UK share UFO/UAP data with AARO — sighting reports, DASORs, historic files? Follow-up on UK attendance at an FVEY UAP/AARO event.
Outcome
Neither confirm nor deny. Hume: 'The amount of sections they quote when you ask MOD about communications with AARO is ridiculous. It's obvious they do but so tight on anything being released.' Later wished he had taken it to ICO just to force a 'records exist but withheld' admission.
Core document in the AARO–UK sharing case. Contrasts with Tim Phillips's verbal yes.
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.
Tim Phillips
Deputy Director, AARO
Told Hume, in his official AARO capacity, that he had been briefed by the UK on 'mystery drones' and specifically on RAF Lakenheath. Hume's subsequent AARO FOIAs returned no records of those briefings. Phillips also denied to Hume that Richard Doty was interviewed for Yankee Blue.
Lewis Goodall
Journalist
Hume says Goodall is being misled or lied to about the UK's association with AARO, given Phillips's verbal confirmation of UK briefings and UK attendance at an FVEY UAP/AARO event versus MOD NCND answers.
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.
- 2024-08-05
Got my reply from the extension re AARO & MOD "data shared" … Basically a Glomar (won't confirm or deny).