John Greenewald
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PersonResearcherJohn Greenewald Jr. is the founder of The Black Vault, a large online archive built through decades of Freedom of Information Act requests.
John Greenewald Jr. is the founder of The Black Vault, a large online archive built through decades of Freedom of Information Act requests.
John Greenewald Jr. is an American researcher who began filing Freedom of Information Act requests as a teenager and created The Black Vault to publish the results. The archive contains millions of pages spanning military, intelligence, nuclear, paranormal, and UFO subjects, organized so readers can inspect the underlying government records.
Greenewald began filing records requests as a teenager and gradually turned the results into The Black Vault, a searchable archive spanning intelligence, defense, nuclear history, paranormal programs, and UFO investigations. The project required persistence through delays, denials, appeals, fee disputes, and heavily redacted releases. Over decades, that administrative work became a distinctive professional identity. He is known not for one revelation but for repeatedly forcing agencies to state what records they hold and what legal reason they give for withholding them.
Greenewald has become one of the most persistent document-focused voices in UAP research. He requests case files, emails, videos, program records, and administrative correspondence, then analyzes what agencies released, withheld, transferred, or said did not exist. He is often critical of both Pentagon messaging and disclosure claims that outrun the documentary record. His conclusions may be debated, but the source files he publishes give others material to check.
Greenewald is central to FOIA and transparency. He demonstrates that bureaucratic details—routing slips, exemptions, retention schedules, and contradictory searches—can be as important as a dramatic video. He is not an official custodian of the records and cannot force agencies to release classified material. His role is to build a public paper trail around UAP and to make government claims answerable to their own documents.
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 30This UFO video over Iran continues to go viral around social media. Any logical explanations yet? https://t.co/y00vaSva8l
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Did Weaponized ever follow up and talk about Corso's record, as chronicled by his FBI file I got, showing a history of "distorting" information and one governme [Quoted] He held senior posts. Then he made an extraordinary claim. Archival footage introduces Col. Philip Corso's military record before he recounts why he believed material in his files came from a flying saucer. Watch the exchange from WEAPONIZED, Episode 43. https://t.co/sbznc879gi https://t.co/yJfs1iGXla
NSA Releases Cold War-Era Style “Technology Forecasts” on Brain-Network Interfaces, Terahertz Systems, Energy Harvesting and More
A collection of eight National Security Agency technology forecasting studies, spanning topics from privacy and anonymity to brain-network interfaces, advanced antennas and terahertz electronics, has been released through the Freedom of Information Act after a request that dated back to May 25, 2011. The original FOIA request sought ten documents described as “Point Forecasts issued [...] The post NSA Releases Cold War-Era Style “Technology Forecasts” on Brain-Network Interfaces, Terahertz Sy...
David Grusch's FOIA lawsuit update, compliments of @ddeanjohnson. See below. 👇 https://t.co/Pc3wCqjIRs [Quoted] UPDATE ON DAVID GRUSCH FOIA LAWSUIT The Department of Justice (DOJ), representing the Department of Defense (AKA Department of War) today (September 21, 2026) filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court, which if granted by the judge would end David Grusch's federal FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense. In his March 2026 lawsuit (Grusch v. Department of Defense,...
Here is a thread of UAP videos that were just added to NARA's Record Group 615: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection, as released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They are headered by their official title in the catalog and archived here for reference.
🚨 Last Friday's UAP/UFO files release from the Department of War have been added to The Black Vault's UFO File search engine. Also available, a .zip archive of the entire release. I also re-processed each PDF to make them more easily searched (OCRd). https://t.co/MAh30edhrk
Damn it. I just catch weeds and rocks when I fish. Some dudes have all the luck. https://t.co/g9pBWS05fQ [Quoted] Shahed-136 Clone Found By Florida Fisherman, Eglin AFB Admits It Lost A Drone The drone hauled in off Florida appears to be of the same family as those used by the U.S. military to strike Iran. https://t.co/rLhcEPrhbU
Some people get mad at me pointing out some UFO files that have been out there for decades, are being branded as "new". They are just excited "new" people are seeing the files. Well, here's my point: If the media was truly doing its job, it would've reported the importance of this topic, along with those files, decades ago. And more people would realize why this is an important topic that doesn't, and shouldn't, go away. Maybe more answers could have come by now, if that was the case. We need...
Also released today: DOW-UAP-PR160, Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952 This audio file records a March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, outlining the U.S. Air Force’s reorganized investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The presentation previews prospective technical methodologies, such as diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization, that were subsequently incorporated into Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force program active from 19...
