Navy’s 2009 “UAV Mothership” Concept: A Platform for Future Unmanned Aerial Operations

October 17, 2024

In a detailed report published by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, the concept of a "UAV Mothership" has…

FBI Intelligence Assessment: The Foreign Intelligence Threat in the United States, 25 November 2008

October 15, 2024

The below document was requested through a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) by The Black Vault on December 16, 2016. It…

FBI Files: Journalists and their Periodicals

October 14, 2024

Background Welcome to the FBI Files on Journalists and their Periodicals archive on The Black Vault. This unique collection offers…

Testimony on the Persian Gulf for the Senate Armed Services Committee, June 1987

October 11, 2024

The below document was released in response to a Mandatory Declassification Review request filed by The Black Vault on November…

Heavily Redacted UAP Briefing Between UAP Task Force and NASA Released

October 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK8mcZ__hEo A recent release of documents obtained through two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by The Black Vault…

Project Cyclops: Efforts in Hurricane Modification Showed Promising Results in 1961

October 9, 2024

In 1961, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) conducted a groundbreaking experiment aimed at modifying hurricanes, a project known…

NASA Denies Existence of Classified Briefings on James Webb Telescope Discoveries

October 9, 2024

In recent weeks, rumors spread rapidly on social media suggesting that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had made an…

FOIA Victory: Full Disclosure of Military Psychological Operations Training Document

October 8, 2024

The Black Vault has successfully obtained a new release of a previously heavily redacted document, which sheds new light on…

Psychological Operations

October 8, 2024

Background Psychological Operations (PSYOPs) are strategic efforts used by military and governmental organizations to influence the perceptions, emotions, and behavior…

Project Cirrus – Hurricane Modification

October 8, 2024

Project Cirrus was an early attempt at weather modification, conducted in the late 1940s by a collaboration between the U.S.…