Buried within the 30th Air Division History for 1950, is a UFO encounter at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Station 47. It occurred when the now inactive United States Air Force organization was conducting an air defense alert capability test, which was conducted on October 17th, 1950, where various radar sets were tested. On page 8 of the historical record released by the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) to The Black Vault in FOIA Case 2021-01256, identified as Iris Number 00464278, is a short report of the UFO encounter. Since it was 1950, the incident should have been investigated by…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Continental Air Command (ConAC) (1948–1968) was a Major Command of the United States Air Force (USAF) responsible primarily for administering the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve. During the Korean War, ConAC provided the necessary augmentation to the regular Air Force while it rebuilt itself under wartime conditions. Later, during the 1950s, it was a training force for reservists with no prior military service. ConAC provided peacetime airlift missions for the Air Force. It was mobilized twice in 1961 and 1962 by president Kennedy for the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crisis. Lastly, it was used by president Lyndon…
Background In December 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton provided the Department with emails that were sent or received by her while she was Secretary of State. The controversy behind this collection, was that they were sent to/from her private server, rather than her State Department issued e-mail, utilizing arguably more secure systems. The Department of State conducted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) review of all emails provided by former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. Starting in June 2015, the State Department has been releasing batches of e-mails to the general public, through FOIA and subsequent litigation. The…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hITfAAyMLy0 The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). At the root, the FOIA truly is a remarkable thing. It gives the right to anyone the ability to request information from the United States government, and in many cases, actually receive what they requested. Although utilizing the act proves to be quite the challenge, and there is a lot of room for record requests to be denied, it allows the people to hold the U.S. government and military accountable. Above all else, it offers a window into a shadowed past marred by secrecy and deceit, and it allows every day people to…
Background In November 1969, Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, directed Lieutenant General William R. Peers, U.S. Army, to “explore the nature and scope of the original Army investigations of what occurred on 16 March 1968 in Son My Village, Quang Ngai Province, Republic of Vietnam.” This collection of materials, commonly known as the “Peers Inquiry,” which provides the results of General Peers’ investigation of the “My Lai incident”— later also known as the “My Lai massacre”— is divided into four volumes: the report, witness testimonies, exhibit materials, and…