![]() ![]() The agency’s data dump arrives one month after Congress’ passage of the 5,600-page Covid-19 relief bill, which included a provision calling for UFO-related documents’ disclosure. ![]() ![]() The files span the 1940s through the early 1990s, according to Nexstar Media Wire. In other recent UFO news, the CIA itself separately uploaded dozens of downloadable records about UFO sightings and inexplicable events from around the world to its FOIA Electronic Reading Room. One of the declassified CIA documents uploaded to the Black Vault portal I received a large box, of a couple thousand pages, and I had to scan them in one page at a time.” “It was like pulling teeth! I went around and around with them to try and do so, finally achieving it. “Around 20 years ago, I had fought for years to get additional UFO records released from the CIA,” Greenewald tells Vice’s Samir Ferdowsi. Per Live Science, highlights of the trove include a 1976 account in which the government’s former assistant deputy director for science and technology is handed a cryptic piece of information about a UFO and a document centered on a strange, late-night explosion in a tiny Russian town. Greenewald purchased the CD-ROM in mid-2020 and has spent the past several months converting its contents into searchable PDF files. “However, over time, the CIA made a CD-ROM collection of UFO documents, which encompassed the original records, along with the ones that took years to fight for.” “The Black Vault spent years fighting for them, and many were released in the late 1990s,” writes Greenewald in a blog post. The site’s owner, John Greenewald Jr., obtained the newly digitized documents-said by the CIA to represent the entirety of its UFO collection-by filing a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Approximately 2,780 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents detailing the government entity’s findings on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are now available for anyone to read and download.Īs Brandon Specktor reports for Live Science, the Black Vault’s collection features UFO-related records declassified by the CIA since the 1980s. ![]()
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