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 30
[Retweeted] Election dust barely settled and UFO Twitter already moved on to gatekeepers, petitions, and that same AAWSAP fight. 🎙️ AP calls Turner, Canada drops a UAP petition, Greenewald's AAWSAP tl;dr, a new AF base craft episode, Avi Loeb on Tim Pool, and Jesse Michels teases Japan. 🌙 Evening UAP Feuds & News 🧵👇 ===== 📰 NEWS 1. AP Calls It: Mike Turner Loses Ohio's 10th [Confirmed] AP called OH-10 for Democrat Kristina Knickerbocker over longtime GOP Rep. Mike Turner. @RedPandaKoala...
tl;dr: AAWSAP, and the story connected to it, is an absolute mess thanks to the U.S. government, the contractor connected to it, and everyone who has said they worked within it.
[Retweeted] Two officially released AAWSAP reports vs. "AAWSAP reports" that appeared in the PURSUE 7 release. See the difference? It is clear to me there is a stark difference (classification markings, formatting, contract number references etc) between the two. Why is this important? It shows a clear difference between what AAWSAP was officially (with the exception of 1, no DIRD talks about UFOs) and what it was for BAASS... then later framed erroneously by those spreading stories and outla...
Two officially released AAWSAP reports vs. "AAWSAP reports" that appeared in the PURSUE 7 release. See the difference? It is clear to me there is a stark difference (classification markings, formatting, contract number references etc) between the two. Why is this important? It shows a clear difference between what AAWSAP was officially (with the exception of 1, no DIRD talks about UFOs) and what it was for BAASS... then later framed erroneously by those spreading stories and outlandish UNPROV...
The obsession within the peanut gallery never dies. I stand by what I've said. Recent document releases only support what I've said that AAWSAP veered off from its intended purpose. I will let the public judge whether taxpayer funds were appropriated properly when it came from the original AAWSAP mission statement vs. what the DIA got in return. I find it very telling that many of the BAASS reports have no government markings, proper formatting, classification markings, etc., while the DIRDS...
[Retweeted] And Greenewald made the argument that AAWSAP wasn't a UFO program to start with, but folks like Lacatski went rogue and turned it into one. BS, and just piss-poor analysis from Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum. AAWSAP was always going to study UFOs, with a focus on the technology involved. And it was allowed to follow the evidence wherever it led, which exposed the folks involved to some very strange places, encounters, and claims. @g_knapp told us all of this starting back in 2018. An...
And Greenewald made the argument that AAWSAP wasn't a UFO program to start with, but folks like Lacatski went rogue and turned it into one. BS, and just piss- [Quoted] Remember when @MiddleOfMayhem reported that "AAWSAP was NEVER a UFO program" The 7th UAP files release (23 Oct 2026) includes nine BAASS contractor records from the AAWSAP era (D166 to D175). They describe AAWSAP as a DIA contract to study UAP: buying UFO reports from MUFON, building a UAP database, modelling the Tic Tac and so...
I'm curious to see more on Gaffney's interview and denial but I don't see it shedding any light on the matter. If Lockheed was really going to divest themselves [Quoted] With publication on Oct. 13, 2026, of the book "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton, various stories about a proposed transfer of something from Lockheed Martin to AAWSAP, circa 2009, are again a matter of discussion and debate. Therefore I am now reposting this August 2025 post/thread. It notes the denials by Pentagon/AARO o...
[Retweeted] 🚨 NEW: FAA records reveal a previously unreported military response during the September 4 San Diego airport drone incident. The Navy reportedly prepared to engage an unauthorized drone at North Island. ATC audio then references one being "shot down." https://t.co/ULeFbgHcZW
[Retweeted] 🚨 NEW: FAA records reveal a previously unreported military response during the September 4 San Diego airport drone incident. The Navy reportedly prepared to engage an unauthorized drone at North Island. ATC audio then references one being "shot down." https://t.co/ULeFbgHcZW
