**DATELINE: GLOBAL — INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA**
**Lead:** The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has formally acknowledged the existence of a classified file pertaining to French aerospace engineer and alleged UFO witness, Pierre Deny.
**Who:** Former CNES (French Space Agency) senior engineer Pierre Deny.
**What:** A previously sealed document, codenamed “Project Echo,” was declassified this morning, detailing an unexplained electromagnetic anomaly Deny observed during a high-altitude balloon test in 1978.
**When:** The incident in question occurred on September 14, 1978. Declassification began at 09:00 UTC today.
**Where:** The observation was made at 67,000 feet over the Bay of Biscay, with the file stored at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
**Why:** NASA officials state the declassification is part of a broader, congressionally mandated review of historical "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP) data. The file corroborates Deny’s detailed, handwritten log of a silent, metallic tetrahedron that altered his balloon’s telemetry readings before accelerating at an estimated Mach 42.
**Closing:** "This is no longer a matter of speculation," a NASA spokesperson stated. "The data from Deny’s flight—triangulated by three independent ground stations—shows a kinetic signature that defies our current models of aerodynamics. We are releasing this for peer review."