{"id":48984,"date":"2021-01-20T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48984"},"modified":"2021-01-20T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:26:29","slug":"cia-drops-black-vault-trove-containing-all-government-documents-on-ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=48984","title":{"rendered":"CIA Drops \u2018Black Vault\u2019 Trove Containing \u2018All\u2019 Government Documents On UFOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48985\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CIAufosightings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CIAufosightings.jpg 750w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CIAufosightings-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elias Marat,\u00a0<em>The Mind Unleashed<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/cia-drops-black-vault-trove-containing-all-government-documents-on-ufos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Waking Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CIA has released all publicly available U.S. government documents collected on unidentified flying objects (UFO) over the course of three decades that can now be downloaded by any curious users.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the massive trove of data on UFOs includes over 2,700 pages of information collected and recorded by government agencies over the course of decades, with some declassified documents dating back as far as the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The information was released thanks to numerous requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The downloadable archives are available on the website <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection\/\">The Black Vault<\/a><\/em>, which has collected every piece of data recording sightings of UFOs. The site\u2019s founder, John Greenewald Jr., purchased a disc which the CIA claims contains the entirety of its archives, but Greenewald notes that <em>\u201cthere may be no way to entirely verify that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cResearch by The Black Vault will continue to see if there are additional documents still uncovered within the CIA\u2019s holdings,\u201d <\/em>Greenewald added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. government has been increasingly open in its discussions of UFOs since September 2019, when\u00a0the U.S. Navy admitted that widely-circulated video footage captured by Navy pilots purportedly showing UFOs flying through the skies did depict actual\u00a0<em>\u201cunknown\u201d<\/em>\u00a0objects that flew into U.S. airspace.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1254836730546384897&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakingtimes.com%2Fcia-drops-black-vault-trove-containing-all-government-documents-on-ufos%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1254836730546384897\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While officials admitted that they have been baffled by the unknown flying objects, they also admit that past encounters with them have been frequent. They also said that rather than calling them\u00a0<em>\u201cUFOs,\u201d<\/em> they prefer the term unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/13\/cia-thousands-documents-ufos-cache\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em> reports that a range of bizarre incidents are recorded in the documents, some of which are hard to decipher and are extremely disorganized.<\/p>\n<p>One document reports a series of inexplicable explosions in a Russian town, while another reports a first-hand account of a sighting of an unidentified aerial phenomenon near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LiveScience has also reviewed the files, and reports that the documents cover a range of other incidents such as a <em>\u201c1976 account of the government\u2019s then-Assistant Deputy Director for Science and Technology being hand-delivered a mysterious piece of intelligence on a UFO.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, Greenewald has expressed annoyance over the manner in which the agency packaged the documents, including the fact that they were burned onto CD-ROM, a medium that he called <em>\u201coutdated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe CIA has made it INCREDIBLY difficult to use their records in a reasonable manner,\u201d<\/em> he wrote to Vice\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/pkdqjy\/you-can-now-easily-download-all-cia-ufo-documents-to-date\">Motherboard<\/a><\/em>. <em>\u201cThis outdated format makes it very difficult for people to see the documents, and use them, for any research purpose.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The arrival of the dump comes as UFOlogists and alien aficionados eagerly anticipate hearings before Congress where Pentagon and intelligence agency officials will report all of their findings on UAPs, according to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/29\/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-day-countdown-for-ufo-disclosures\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A provision tucked into the roughly 5,600-page coronavirus relief bill passed in December requires that government agencies <em>\u201csubmit a report within 180 days \u2026 to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Also last June, outgoing President Trump told his <\/em>son Don Trump Jr. that he had heard some\u00a0<em>\u201cinteresting\u201d<\/em>\u00a0things about supposed UFOs and the secretive Area 51 base near Roswell, New Mexico, that some theorists claim was a crash site for a UFO.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/cia-drops-black-vault-trove-containing-all-government-documents-on-ufos\/\">https:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/cia-drops-black-vault-trove-containing-all-government-documents-on-ufos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}