Author: John Greenewald

Updated 8/16/21 at 3:40p Pacific Time with a statement from the Pentagon made on behalf of NASA and the UAP Task Force. Also added that it has been confirmed as a “classified briefing.” NASA’s Administrator Bill Nelson is scheduled to obtain a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) tomorrow. This news, which comes from two documents released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and obtained by The Black Vault, was revealed within two Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR) “Weekly Update” e-mails sent on July 18th and July 25th of this year. Both updates outline a list…

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG), Investigations Division, investigated an unauthorized disclosure of the Department of Defense (DoD ) proprietary information released to a hostile Foreign Intelligence Element (FIE). The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Community Coordination Office (CCO), Counterintelligence (CI) Division, alleged the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released DoD information without proper authorization to a FIE. Document Archive Alleged Unauthorized Disclosure – Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community – Case: 18-0001-IN – 2018 [22 Pages, 6MB]

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The following memorandum was written by Colin Powell, on December 3, 1990. It was about the reorganization of the DIA. Previously, the memo was released, but was heavily redacted. The following is a comparison between the previously released record, and the one released to The Black Vault after a successful Mandatory Declassification Review case (full document pdf is below – scroll down): Document Archive DIA Reorganization Proposal, Written by Colin Powell, 3 December 1990 [5 Pages, 2MB]

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On December 12, 2020, Ramstein Air Base had a missile alert which sounded an alarm. “Aerial attack, aerial attack, seek cover, seek cover,” a voice over a loudspeaker said. The threat was not real, though the alert was not deemed an exercise. It was triggered by Russia test-launching four dummy ICBMs from the western Pacific region. The Black Vault filed a FOIA request on December 14, 2020, for all records relating to this incident from Ramstein. They were released in January of 2021, and added to The Black Vault below on August 11, 2021. Document Archive Ramstein Air Base False…

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