John Greenewald: Hey everybody, John Greenewald here with the
black vault.com. I am coming at you today with a brand new
story, something I wrote just a couple hours ago. And I get your
messages. By the way, I know some of you don't use social
media. So for those of you who don't, I'm going to try and make
these videos more often for all of you, time is never on my
side. But with that being said, I'm definitely going to try
harder to do that and make these short videos because this
particular story, let me go ahead and bring it up is
something that was a little bit of a surprise. But I can tell
you that it was two years in the making. I've been chasing a
document for two years to get this story. And to be honest
with you, I had no idea if it was even going to be a story.
And thankfully, it turned out to be something cool. Now the
headline itself internal Navy document reveals previously
unknown UFO slash UAP encounter by f 18. Pilot, Senate staffers
briefed now really to kind of break that down. It is exactly
how it reads. This particular document that I got released
goes back, like I said, two years into a batch of emails
that I got back in 2019. Now we're kind of this stems from
because I do like to give a little bit of background is very
quickly back in February of 2019. I released all sorts of
emails, by the way when it comes to the Navy and UAPs, published
about mid 2019. So this was back in February. And so in those
batches that I had published, I had found this very easily
overlooked detail now, for all my FOIA people out there, you're
you're getting into FOIA, you're useful. These are types of
things that you look out for. These are the types of things
that you want to look at a document that you get and seek
out because then that sparks another request and this
particular batch. This is what sparked it. There was a
political
letter that was sent into the Office of Public Affairs. Now
specifically, this was to Joseph Bradsher. He's the spokesperson
of the spokespeople for the Navy. And although they redacted
his name, it's pretty obvious. It's Brian bender. And I only
laugh because it's silly when they blackout somebody named to
shield their privacy yet in the first part says, Here's my piece
on the original Pentagon program. And then it links to
Brian benders article. So pretty obvious. Anyway, Brian's doing
what he does best. He's an investigative journalist, a good
one at that he's broken a lot of stories. And I give him a lot of
credit for that. So in February, he reached out had some
questions. And then internally, they started talking, the Navy
started talking about what Brian was talking about when it comes
to some of these UAP issues. Now, I invite you to read the
letters, I'm not going to go over every single word for you
and break it down. But rather what I want to show you was the
internal communication between Joseph Bradsher who was the
target of my request, a lot of blacked out people here, we
don't know who the specific person that wrote this, again,
internally in the Navy, but he says team or he or she says
team, please see the below, can you please check into it? I
noticed on a previous Oh, LA Weekly, there was a brief to
some staffers, on on on from a similar sounding program office.
Sorry, that's how it read, happy to hand this over to whomever is
best positioned to respond. Another person chimes in
forwarding it around to a couple people did oh la give a brief on
this. And so it just kind of goes and I have it all linked in
the show notes below, but also on the article itself. So what
is that? Oh, LA Weekly, you know, what are they talking
about? A brief a UAP briefing. Obviously, as I noted in the
article, if you've read it, details are scant, right,
there's really nothing there other than it's Oh, LA Weekly,
and UAP. Okay, so we know what UAP is. It's just the hot term
for today. For UFO. What is oh la No, oh, LA is the Office of
Legislative Affairs essentially. Oh, la for the Navy is that
office that deals with Legislative Affairs, meaning the
Senate Congress and those types of issues. So when I saw that,
put two and two together, you know that you're probably
getting into a congressional briefing of some kind. We know
the topic is UAPs. So I dug in, I filed a request to get that
specific ol a weekly document. And it took well over a year for
them to give me a no records response. Now why they gave me a
no records response, even though internally they were talking
about it. I'm not really sure. Now the speed up the story, I
have a right to appeal. Now my time to do so had expired, not
only because of time constraints, but on top of that,
you always want to formulate the appeal correctly. I needed to do
some more research. Realize that everything that I had submitted
was correct. I added some more details filed a second case
earlier this year in September of 2021. So again, here is that
email that launched it all in the article.
Well, I finally got the document itself. After two years, more
than two years from the original request, finally got it
released. And although it's short and sweet, and although we
all want more details than what is in here, you're going to find
something that is essentially two different gems. And these
are things that you build off of through FOIA. Or if you don't
even use FOIA, and you're just interested in this topic. Well,
this is going to add a small piece to the puzzle. So although
it took two years, pretty happy that I went in and kind of dug
in on it, simply because of what it revealed. Now there's a about
12 pages or so from this Oh, LA Weekly, and that Office of
Legislative Affairs, they do these weekly emails, they pretty
much break down how they're communicating with Congress. And
those weekly emails, give more details, what types of
briefings, what types of legislative issues are coming
up? How does it involve the Navy, all those documents again,
in the show notes, I invite you to look at them. But this one
specific item that was buried within this much longer list of
legislative affair issues was this item E on the list
anonymous, excuse me, anomalous aerial vehicle encounter brief
to S A S. See now that's the Senate Armed Services Committee,
PSM. Now that's professional staff members on 16 January and
then it's redacted. This is likely a essentially like a code
to refer to the to the pilot that came in possibly a name but
my guess is, you know, maybe a code of some kind. So in 16,
January, this was 2019 and F 18. Pilot from VFA 103 met with the
Senate Armed Services Committee, professional staff members, they
likely listed the members they redacted all of those Senate
Armed Services Committee, PSM have continued interest in
unidentified aerial vehicle intercepts that have occurred in
the working airspace off the US east coast. And again, the
redacted pilot designator gave a detailed brief on his personal
encounter. Now when I first read this, of course, there are these
more well known naval encounters like the tic tac incident, we
know this is an IT and like the gimbal incident and those that
occurred with the Roosevelt, that is also not it. Now, there
was one other thing that has kind of been reported and my
continued support and shout outs to Tyler rogue away, and Joseph
Trevithick and the the war zone that drives the war zone. Again,
I've got a lot of support for those guys, because they're
breaking a lot of these stories, and they tie into this
particular story. Because when you start breaking down what I
just read, let's start with VFA 103 VFA 103 Are the jolly
Rogers. They're stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana in
Virginia Beach, Virginia. Now, the reason why this is kind of
interesting, is that's where Tyler Rockaway and Joe come in,
is that they wrote, let me pull it up for you here. This is
their article here are the Navy pilot reports from encounters
with mysterious aircraft off off the east coast. They wrote this
in May of 2020. Why do I feel this fits into the story? Well,
credit to those guys for breaking the story. These were
the naval Safety Center reports about naval encounters with what
they were terming as UAP UFOs unidentified objects, and they
broke down quite a few of them. Not all of them, but a lot of
them dealt with Naval Air Station, Oceana. same location
as the jolly Rogers. And they went through all the different
reports in this particular article. And they broke down
those that were mentioned VFA 11, PFA 143 and VFA 106. So the
Dr. outlined all of those encounters, but what wasn't on
there was VFA 103. What does that mean? That this particular
UAP encounter is brand new. I've looked all around, please,
whomever is out there, and they go, Wait a minute, I saw this
reported, you know, here, please let me know, correct
me if I'm wrong, but I looked in quite a few different places,
talk to a few journalists, talk to a few friends, people that
that I trust and that follow this type of stuff. It really
didn't sound familiar to anybody. So I'm pretty confident
that this is a brand new encounter altogether. Now, why
that is meaningful, even though the documents that I received
don't have a photograph of video or some kind of description like
it's a flying triangle coming out of the water, which is
highly rumored about or whatever it may be, even though we don't
have that the mere mention of the UAP a UAP case that there's
previously unknown supports that there's a lot to this. We have
yet to see, and that a lot of people are basing opinions on,
let's say, the tic tac video or the gimbal. Well, this is
proving that still we do not have the full picture. And on
top of that, for those that do dabble in the FOIA, these are
the leads that you look for, for looking for these types of
documents, one document turns into five different requests.
And it yields hopefully something else. I showed you the
route of how I got here to find this. That's exactly what you do
with this particular passage. Short and sweet. Yes, I've
already filed to find out that to find out if the Navy has any
material that this particular pilot was approved to go to that
briefing with, potentially handout potentially show, was
there a video? Was there a photograph, I'm looking for the
email communications about it? Again, you really look for those
gems, and one of the things I like to do with these videos,
and it may bore some of you is that for others, for the other,
some of us, you may be interested in what you're
looking for when you look at documents like this. And that's
what it is. That's why I like to break it down, you look for
those little nuggets, and those types of gems that you just
chase after. And I often liken FOIA to a tree branch, you got
your first document, that's your trunk, and you've got all these
branches that stem off of it. And that is exactly how I always
approach the FOIA. And how I approach topics like this. So
two big gems here, too. You've got the UAP encounter brand new,
I don't think that that's ever been revealed before. And
hopefully now with this concrete evidence that a briefing took
place, we can get more documents, and that is the
second gem that a briefing took place. This was not the tic tac,
this was not the gimbal incident or go faster. The Roosevelt
encounters that we've heard so much about, this is a unknown
pilot, what appears to be a brand new one, we don't know his
name. They do, say his encounter. So we can know that
it's a male pilot. We know that it was important enough to brief
Senate staffers. So whatever this is, it's something
important enough, and it is on the same level, as those that we
have heard about and potentially even better is something more
interesting. So what that will be what we'll see if the FOIA
yields anything else, if we can bring anything else, I have
forward this forwarded this article, to a couple people I
won't name in hopes that the pilot may receive this article
and see that his briefing is now out in the open, and let's all
cross our fingers, maybe that pilot will decide to come out, I
have the utmost respect for the men and women who serve in our
military and fly in our skies and protect our nation. And it's
not my interest to out anybody who doesn't want to be outed. So
I'll say that upfront. I'm not interested in that. But what I
am interested in is if he wants a safe place to tell his story
and his encounter, and expand on an unclassified level about what
he experienced, I will definitely give him a home to do
that. So hopefully, if someone out there knows who this is,
please by all means, forward it to him and let him know he's got
a friendly home here and a lot of people that would want to
hear his story. So that's the new document. That's the new
article. I love bringing these things to you guys. And again,
for those that are interested in FOIA. I hope those little
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this is John Greenewald Jr signing off, and we'll see you
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