Published 13:19 IST, January 15th 2021
CIA releases data on UFO sightings months before agencies have to appear before Congress
CIA releases data on UFO sightings months before agencies have to appear before Congress. The data comprises of more than 2,700 pages of UFO-related documents.
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CIA has released documentation on Unidentified flying objects. This comes just months before US intelligence ncies are to appear before Congress and reveal information about UFOs. documents are available on a privately run archive of declassified documents and documents can be downloaded from Black Vault.
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CIA reveals data on UFO Sightings
Netizens can w download data maintained by US government for over 3 decades on UFOs. data comprises of more than 2,700 ps of UFO-related documents. According to Black Vault, documents were obtained through a string of requests filed under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) over last quarter-century. author of website, John Greenwald Jr. purchased CD-ROM and he uploaded contents available on website as searchable PDF files.
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What do UFO files reveal?
documents have provided information on dozens of incidents pertaining to UFO. It includes accounts of how n government’s Assistant Deputy Director for Science & Techlogy was hand-delivered a mysterious piece of intelligence on a UFO in year 1976. documents also has a description of a mysterious explosion that took place in a small Russian town at midnight.
Greenwald has mentioned on Black Vault website that though CIA claims this is entire collection, re is way to verify that. author has claimed that research by website will continue to see if re are additional documents still uncovered within CIA’s holdings. Black Vault website contains more than a million ps of UFO-related material.
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John Greenwald filed his first FOIA request in year 1996, when he was just 15 years of . He has obtained information through 10,000 FOIA requests.
Black Vault spent years fighting for m, and many were released in late 1990s. However, over time, CIA made a CD-ROM collection of UFO documents, which encompassed original records, along with ones that took years to fight for,” John Greenwald stated in a blog post.
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In April 2020, department of defence released three declassified videos where US Navy pilots encountered UFO-like objects. US Navy later released seven incidents mentioning a series of encounters between Navy pilots and UFO or UAO.
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13:19 IST, January 15th 2021