Background The following document is the House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Summary of Progress of Specific Studies and Investigations for March of 2020. This document reveals that on March 11th, 2020, the full Committee received a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs, specifically, it was to the Future of Defense Task Force, as confirmed by a House spokesperson. On November 3, 2020, The Black Vault also confirmed that the U.S. Navy was responsible for giving the briefing to the House Armed Services Committee. Also on November 3, 2020, The Black Vault received the following statement from…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Operation Vulgar Betrayal was a counterterrorism probe, allegedly targeting Middle Eastern terrorist funds used to finance attacks on U.S. soil. The program also targeted those on U.S. soil planning such attacks. It was an operation through the late 1990s and possibly into the early 2000s. FBI Agent Robert Wright was the case agent of Operation Vulgar Betrayal, who has spoken out extensively about the cancellation of the program, and the fact the FBI did not adequately pursue the many known U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists and their financial supporters identified via Vulgar Betrayal. Below, I have archived thousands of pages…
The following is NASA press release 20-105. It is archived here for reference. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon’s southern hemisphere. Previous observations of the Moon’s surface detected some form of hydrogen, but were unable to distinguish between water and its close chemical relative, hydroxyl…
by John Greenewald, Jr. — The Black Vault — Originally Published October 25, 2020 For the past 24 years, The Black Vault has gone after UFO documents from nearly every government agency that exists. Although thousands of pages have been released in that process, and subsequently archived on the site for others to download, there are many pages that still remain classified that the government will not release. The National Security Agency (NSA) just confirmed again they not only have Top Secret UFO material, they will also not declassify it for national security reasons. The lineage of this particular request…
Background The following is the “Afghanistan Situation Report” dated 4 June 1985. Although the CIA had previously released the document in 2010, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) in April of 2020 to see if additional information could be released. The below is the result, which did accomplish in getting a few redactions removed. Document Archive Afghanistan Situation Report, 4 June 1985 [16 Pages, 5MB]