Background Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption)—conversion of messages from a comprehensible form into an incomprehensible one and back again at the other end, rendering it unreadable by interceptors or eavesdroppers without secret knowledge (namely the key needed for decryption of that message). Encryption attempted to ensure secrecy in communications, such as those of spies, military leaders, and diplomats. In recent decades, the field has expanded beyond confidentiality concerns to include techniques for message integrity checking, sender/receiver identity authentication, digital signatures, interactive proofs and secure computation, among others. Below, you will find the…
Author: John Greenewald
For decades, an NSA document has circulated recounting an NSA employee’s experience at a MUFON symposium in 1978. The memo was written in order for them to chronicle their experience, but also express their a concern about one of the presenters at the symposium, Todd Zechel. This NSA employee’s concern was that Zechel, a well known UFO researcher and co-founder of the Citizen’s Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) group would potentially tout an “inside contact with NSA”. This memorandum also outlined how they ultimately felt that Zechel may have fraudulently hoaxed CIA letters shown at the conference. For many years, Zechel’s…
This week, researcher Kyle Warfel received a list of reports within the FAA’s database called Comprehensive Electronic Data Analysis and Reporting (CEDAR), which reference Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) from January 1, 2008 to present. With permission, Kyle has shared the information with The Black Vault for posting. You will find the released records below. Document Archive FAA Releases Near Miss Cases That Reference UFOs/UAP [Spreadsheet, 43kb] – This is the RAW file, unedited, on how the FAA released it originally. FAA Releases Near Miss Cases That Reference UFOs/UAP [4 Pages, 0.6MB] – Note: This is…
Per the Department of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, on July 20, 2022 (see establishment memorandums below the press release below): On July 15, 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), amended her original direction to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security by renaming and expanding the scope of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Group (AOIMSG) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), due to the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, which included a provision to establish an office, in coordination with DNI, with…
Today, July 20, 2022, the House Intelligence Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act, authorizing funding for initiatives that will improve the IC’s ability to collect data on hard targets, modernize the Intelligence Community’s use of emerging technology, recruit and retain top talent to the IC, and strengthen congressional oversight. The measure was passed through a bipartisan voice vote and now heads to the House floor for final passage. It also included language about Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena. (Click Here for the full approved Act and corresponding press release.) Shining a historical light on UAPs. This year, the Intelligence…