Background Clementine was placed in lunar orbit on February 19, 1994, completing its highly successful lunar mapping mission. Clementine left orbit in early May 1994, but not before amassing a collection of 1.8 million lunar images. Clementine offered many benefits to the U.S. space program. Along with its primary military mission to qualify lightweight technology, it returned valuable lunar data for the international civilian scientific community that exceeded mission science objectives. Clementine showed the capability of the national laboratories, working in conjunction with DoD, NASA, industry, and international space organizations, to integrate, execute, and operate meaningful space missions at low…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory discuss their ongoing space research and development efforts. Topics include the development of GPS technology, space mission support capability, the study of space plasmas, free space optics, space weather research, research on sungrazing comets, and NRL’s Blossom Point tracking facility. Video Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8miyZIIMy1Q
Background In 1973, Ingo Swann and Harold Sherman conducted an experiment while working with Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. They aimed to conduct a psychic probe of the Planet Jupiter. The following document is the result of that experiment, along with a transcription of a conversation between Dr. Puthoff, Swann and Sherman. The document is part of the “Stargate Collection” and archived by the CIA. Document Archive An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter, 1973 [13 Pages, 0.8MB]
Background General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project called the Manhattan District History. Prepared by multiple authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was “intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and where.” The volumes record the Manhattan Project’s activities and achievements in research, design, construction, operation, and administration, assembling a vast amount of information in a systematic, readily…
By John Greenewald, Jr. – The Black Vault – Originally Published August 24, 2020 In April of 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) shocked the world by releasing three videos they considered Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs. Although the three videos had already leaked and had been in the public domain for years, the official release of them represented a continued aura of transparency surrounding the UFO issue by the Navy, when all other military branches have been primarily silent on the issue. However, it appears that transparency may have morphed back into a shroud of secrecy. A string of…