The Black Vault
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OrgArchiveThe Black Vault is John Greenewald’s independent digital archive of government records, built through decades of Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Black Vault is John Greenewald’s independent digital archive of government records, built through decades of Freedom of Information Act requests.
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John Greenewald
The Black Vault is an independent online archive created by John Greenewald to obtain, organize, and publish government records. Greenewald began filing Freedom of Information Act requests as a teenager in 1996 and developed the resulting collection into a broad repository covering defense, intelligence, science, politics, and unexplained phenomena. Its holdings include documents released directly to the requester as well as records gathered from official reading rooms and historical collections.
The project’s central method is documentary rather than testimonial. Requests, agency acknowledgments, search descriptions, appeal letters, redactions, and released files preserve the administrative path by which information becomes public. The Black Vault also reports on delays, destroyed records, exemptions, inconsistent searches, and changes in agency explanations. A FOIA release proves that an agency held and processed a record; it does not necessarily prove the accuracy of every statement contained in the underlying document.
UFO and UAP records are among the archive’s best-known collections. Greenewald has pursued files from defense, intelligence, law-enforcement, aviation, and scientific agencies, often comparing public claims with the paper trail. The archive has published original release packages concerning military videos, AATIP and AAWSAP, AARO, historical sightings, and government communications. Its work has both supported transparency and produced skeptical corrections when a popular claim exceeded what a document actually showed.
The Black Vault’s lasting institutional value comes from continuity and provenance. Government websites change, links disappear, and responses arrive years after a news cycle ends; a maintained independent archive allows later researchers to reconstruct those sequences. Greenewald’s publication of correspondence alongside responsive documents also exposes the precise scope of a request and the agency’s stated search method. Its relationship to FOIA and transparency is intensely practical rather than abstract: the collection demonstrates both what public-records law can uncover and how incomplete, slow, or ambiguous that process can remain.
Deep probes
4Probed ingest of: Newly Released Documents Show UAP “Space Tiger Team” Built Around Space and Transmedium Cases
The Black Vault · May 1Probed ingest of: Pentagon Spokesperson Christopher Sherwood Emails on UFOs, UAP, and more
The Black Vault · Apr 23Probed ingest of: Archive of Luis Elizondo’s “Deleted” Emails
The Black Vault · Apr 2Probed ingest of: NASA Partially Lifts Redactions in James Webb Briefing Records Following Appeal
The Black Vault · Mar 30
RT @theblackvault: Then, it’s only fair to ask them for access to their UFO archive, as well. You know, tradesies.
Then, it’s only fair to ask them for access to their UFO archive, as well. You know, tradesies. https://t.co/v7Q9pidsc7 [Quoted] Pentagon seeks access to vast private UFO records collection: https://t.co/qPYqFAM6ph
I thought this could be it and the public saw the "Estimate of the Situation" document from 1948 that concluded UFOs were interplanetary/extraterrestrial. The document, with the same title and year as the rumored goldmine for UFO history buffs, was slated to be released per a few references I've seen in the past. Excited to see the document was finally added to NARA's UFO site. Problem? It has nothing to do with what has been rumored for decades. I feel we are getting punked on so many levels...
RT @AdamFrank4: As I said this is not the end of the story. There should be more give and take through the well-established, certainly-has…
YouTube vids and talks start back up this week. For those who care, what do you want to hear about most?
Yes. And thank you for asking. My family comes first, so as a result, so does my job to take care of them :) But, I realized some other stuff was going on, too. This week - I’ll return to it with some much needed explanations for those who care to listen… https://t.co/BZNFooS1ms [Quoted] @theblackvault any plans to keep doing audio podcasts? Haven’t seen anything new in Apple for a while
If he actually did, and he’s openly talking about them, then they are not classified. I think everybody should agree with that. Now, with that said, he should name exactly where we all can find the report, and get it released to the general public. https://t.co/QLFoswkQgu [Quoted] 🚨 Eric Davis just revealed where recovered alien bodies were taken. The location: the Army Medical Museum, later known as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, in Washington, D.C. He says he has seen the records...
Ahh yes, Mr. World's Best JoUrNaLiSt (just ask him 🤡) citing his anonymous sources to push his agenda... over and over and over. There's more to that story... https://t.co/I31JHKO6l3 [Quoted] Hey @grok, is there any verifiable evidence to support the claims in Steven Greenstreet’s post and New York Post article that Jay Stratton was “ousted from his Pentagon job”? https://t.co/52ZtROQvml
