In June 2021, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed by The Black Vault with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under case number 2021-006688. The request, filed on June 27, 2021, sought all communications between the FAA and the UAP Task Force, as well as communications between the FAA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which contributed to the creation of the UAP report released by the ODNI in 2021. Specifically, the FOIA request aimed to uncover any input the FAA provided to the UAP Task Force, including emails, memos, letters, reports, photographs, videos,…
Author: John Greenewald
Article originally published June 28, 2022. Updated on April 2, 2024 https://youtu.be/8Iz5m1LkSGA On June 28, 2022, The Black Vault received a FOIA response that had a small batch of records. It asked for a search of 8 email boxes, that contain the keyword “Elizondo.” Those email boxes were: 1. Steven A. Stebbins, Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General and Chief of Staff 2. Kelly P. Mayo, Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations 3. James R. Ives, Deputy Inspector General Overseas Contingency Operations 4. Marguerite C. Garrison, Deputy Inspector General Administrative Investigations 5. Michael J. Roark, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluations 6.…
(This remains an evolving database, and will be updated continuously. It was first published in May of 2022, and has been updated numerous times since then.) According to NASA, “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is responsible for unique scientific and technological achievements in human spaceflight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications that have had widespread impacts on our nation and the world. Forged in response to early Soviet space achievements, NASA was built on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other government organizations, as the locus of U.S. civil aerospace research and development.” The following is…
In a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release to The Black Vault, through FOIA Case 23-F-0740, the Department of Defense (DoD) provided documents regarding their classified web portal for their UFO research office known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). This request was based on the testimony given by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the current Director of AARO, during the April 19, 2023, hearing on UAP. Dr. Kirkpatrick stated during his testimony, “Once we have an approved web portal to hang the unclassified stuff, we will do, you know, we would downgrade and declassified things and put it out…
Background Operation 40 was a covert operation established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1960 during the early years of the Cold War. The operation was initially conceived as a counterintelligence and counterinsurgency task force aimed at undermining communist influence in Latin America, particularly in Cuba. This operation was part of the broader U.S. strategy to contain the spread of communism in the Western Hemisphere, which was seen as a direct threat to U.S. national security. Operation 40 was formed in response to the growing concern over Fidel Castro’s communist regime in Cuba, which had come to power in…