Here is the story behind how a secretly filmed scene for a television series, “creative license” freedom, and the sharing of “classified” information in a Pentagon SCIF, all sparked a full U.S. Army investigation. After more than a year of research by The Black Vault, official U.S. Army investigative files (with some redactions) have been released via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which supports that the gross misrepresentation of facts created a firestorm behind the scenes. The television series “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” which premiered on the History Channel in May of 2019 excited everyone interested in the…
Author: John Greenewald
On May 3, 2021, Luis Elizondo filed a Department of Defense (DoD), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Fraud, Waste & Abuse Hotline Complaint. Elizondo made numerous allegations specifically against three people within the Department of Defense, which included Garry Reid, Susan Gough and Neill Tipton, alleging “… malicious activities, coordinated disinformation, professional misconduct, whistleblower reprisal and and explicit threats perpetrated by certain senior-level Pentagon officials, including the Director of Defense for Intelligence and Security (DDI I&S), Garry Reid, Public Affairs Officer Susan Gough, and any other officials who were complicit in these acts.” That DoD/OIG complaint was published by…
The below gallery of photographs have been released by the Department of Defense (DoD), relating to the shoot down of, “… a high altitude surveillance balloon within sovereign U.S. airspace and over U.S. territorial waters Feb. 4, 2023.” “Active duty, Reserve, National Guard, and civilian personnel planned and executed the operation, and partners from the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, and Federal Bureau of Investigation ensured public safety throughout the operation and recovery efforts.” This gallery will be updated when new photographs become available. Gallery
This article was originally published on June 10, 2020. It was updated on February 7, 2023, to include documents released by the U.S. Navy pertaining to the investigation. Those are available at the end of this article. Background The UFO videos circulated as the “Gimbal,” “Flir1” and “GoFast” have received widespread coverage in the media. However, controversy has surrounded the videos as being “unauthorized leaks” vs. “officially released.” As first broken by Vice News / Tim McMillan, AFOSI investigated the release of the videos. In early December of 2019, The Black Vault had also filed for similar records (FOIA Case…
Background Devices exist which, by sending an electrical impulse of ultrasonic frequency through a telephone circuit by tapping, will permit remote surveillance of any office in which a telephone is located by utilizing the telephone microphone as a pick-up. Such eavesdropping may be accomplished without additional wires and is possible even though the handset is in a “hung-up” position. Below, you will find thousands of pages archived from the FBI on ultrasonic listening devices, wiretapping, violations, and countermeasures. Document Archive Ultrasonic Listening Devices / Wiretapping, 1945 – 1989 (80-HQ-760) – Release #1 – [1,064 Pages, 200.1MB] Ultrasonic Listening Devices / Wiretapping,…