In the interviews, the identities are unknown in most cases. If anyone can add who the individuals are, please CONTACT The Black Vault.

Released Videos

[ .zip File of ALL 10 Videos Below, As Released by the NRO – 5.72GB File Size ]

Metamorphosis: Corona Satellite Operation in the 1960s, Presentation by Lt. Col. David Arnold, PhD

Catch a Falling Star

Honoring the Corona Pioneers, May 24, 1995

Discovery / Corona – 1st You Don’t Succeed

Corona Interview #1

Corona Interview #2 (Part 2 of the above)

Corona Interview #3

Corona Interview #4 – Colonel Frank S. Buzard

Corona Interview #5 – Colonel Frank S. Buzard (Part 2 of the above)

Corona Interview #6

FOIA Release Letter

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Excerpt from document:

“Intelligence vital to the national security of the US now depends to a very large extent on photography acquired by overhead reconnaissance. This important intelligence source has been developed quite dramatically over the past ten years. All of our present photography has been collected by there reconnaissance systems.”

Document Archive

 A summary of the National Reconnaissance Problem, 13 May 1965 [24 Pages, 2.9MB]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nro/NationalReconProblem1965-nro.pdf

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Corona was the name of a series of the U.S. military reconnaissance satellites operated under a CIA program run by the Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the US Air Force, used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union, China and other areas from June 1959 until May 1972. The project name is sometimes given as CORONA, but it is a codeword, not an acronym.

The secret spy satellite was dubbed Corona by the CIA. To disguise its true purpose, it was given the cover name Discoverer and described as a scientific research program.

Document Archive

A Point In Time: The Corona Story Script, 25 June 1973 [54 Pages, 850k]
Watch the actual declassified video of A Point In Time: The Corona Story

 A Tribute to the People of the Air Force Satellite Control Facility; The National Security Impact of Its Corona Satellites, April 2007 [ 30 Pages, 8.43 MB ]

 The Corona Story, December 1988 [182 Pages, 7.9MB]

 CORONA: America’s First Satellite Program, 1995 [362 Pages]

Discoverer/Corona General Briefing Portfolio – 22 January 1959 – Document received from the NRO.

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