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You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date:
In anticipation of the government’s official UFO report coming in less than six months thanks to the COVID-19 omnibus bill, you can now download all of the publicly available CIA documentation on UFOs.
The Black Vault, a clearinghouse for declassified documents, has released a downloadable document archive filled with PDFs containing CIA files on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), the government's preferred term. . Some of the reports date all the way back to the 1980s, and according to the site's founder, John Greenewald Jr., the spy agency claims this is all of its documents on UAPs.
[...] “Around 20 years ago, I had fought for years to get additional UFO records released from the CIA,” Greenewald said in an email to Motherboard. “It was like pulling teeth! I went around and around with them to try and do so, finally achieving it. I received a large box, of a couple thousand pages, and I had to scan them in one page at a time.”
[...] “Plain and simple, the public has a right to know!” Greenewald said. “When I began researching nearly 25 years ago at the age of 15, I knew there was something to this topic. Not because of viral internet hoaxes. Not because of back door meetings wherein I can’t tell you who, but I promise it was mind-blowing information. No, none of that. It was simply because of the evidence that I got straight from the CIA. And the NSA. And the Air Force. And the DIA. I feel I am achieving what I set out to do. Easy access, to important material, for people to make up their own minds on what is going on.”
(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:26AM (3 children)
They won't discuss first contact with the Lizard People, because they are the Lizard People and they've infiltrated all facets of our society for their nefarious ends.
What they will tell you is that those damn Amphibian Newtinoids hacked the elections, flew those anti-gravity triangle-shaped pods over our seas, and that the politicians Lizard People don't like are all working in concert with the evil Amphibian Newt hackers.
(Score: 2, Funny) by inzkeeper on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:44AM (1 child)
Greeting earthling! Take me to your lizard!
(Score: 0) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:45AM
You came just in time, he's about to be drained. Open wide, inferior Newtinoid!
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:57AM
Dibs on the eyes!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:27AM (2 children)
US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs, thanks to the Covid-19 relief and spending bill [cnn.com]
Six months later: The report is in. All the sightings were of ball lightning and drones.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 14 2021, @06:10AM (1 child)
What happened to all the weather balloons [ibrattleboro.com]?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Thursday January 14 2021, @04:24PM
Weather ballons? They don't exist.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @06:16AM
I’m guessing a hardcore X-files fan... the truth is out there
(Score: 3, Funny) by Socrastotle on Thursday January 14 2021, @06:26AM (6 children)
Me when government refuses to release 'alien files':
Dude, they're just trying to keep it all secret from us. They think society can't take the truth. But we can! Assholes!
Me when government releases the 'alien files':
Look, I don't care if the files say there was contact with potential extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial objects. They're full of shit. They're just trying to get us to get interested and go enlist in the military... or something. Assholes!
(Score: 4, Touché) by multistrand on Thursday January 14 2021, @06:41AM (5 children)
not just any military - Space Force!
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Thursday January 14 2021, @08:53AM (4 children)
Service guarantees citizenship!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @03:48PM (3 children)
What planet are you from?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 14 2021, @04:27PM (2 children)
Hopefully not the bug planet. We've yet to develop our Space Force to such a degree as to have telepaths in their ranks. How are we to track down the Mind Bugs, then?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday January 14 2021, @05:39PM
Come on you ape - you wanna live forever?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday January 14 2021, @10:23PM
Brain bugs?! Frankly, I find the idea of a Bug that thinks offensive!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 14 2021, @07:51AM
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/ [theblackvault.com]
Clicky the linky, you are presented with 1/3 of a standard page, telling you about the Black Vault's efforts to get these documents. Nice. Then you get a list of PDFs with titles like C05515622.pdf. Totally uninformative, nondescriptive, and meaningless.
https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/ufos/C05515622.pdf [theblackvault.com]
The redactions in that particular pdf makes the document all but useless. Names are redacted, and you're left with nothing more than a date of 16 April 1976, and a denial that the government has a UFO program.
No, I haven't opened all of the pdf documents, maybe some of them really are informative. I guess you can pick some at random, or you can methodically run through them, to determine which might be informative. Or, if you're lazy, like me, you can wait for someone to catalog the information contained in the files.
There are quite a lot of documents to work through if you are the methodical type.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday January 14 2021, @09:25AM (1 child)
What was I expecting from the CIA? Well something a bit more plain, mundane. A plain white label with the other text that is on the current CD, "UNCLASSIFIED, APPROVED FOR RELEASE" in Arial font, I guess.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Thursday January 14 2021, @10:05AM
I had a look at a number of them. Probably 8-10. A lot of the files are UNCLASS telegrams on what was being shown on TV in the UK and the USSR. It's somewhat amusing but otherwise completely uninformative. Some seem to say that the shows are to be marked for review.
In my squizz, there were a couple of more interesting files, one being a report about a traveling US scientist in the USSR and how he had discussions with Russians on UFOs they'd been seeing. I didn't go far into it, it stopped after the first page, probably the next PDF is the following page. Best I saw was CONFIDENTIAL which is pretty low level, I wouldn't expect much juice at that level. Unlike the TS stuff that Snowden dumped.
Seems like it's more of the witness accounts type stuff which is not much interesting, you can read any online forums for UFO stories. What about the conclusions from sweeping analyses of aggregated accounts, possible direct evidence and information from other agencies, etc. That's where the money is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @11:08AM (1 child)
Interesting that all these scams are winding down at the same time. War on drugs, ufos, frns.
They must no longer be required.
(Score: 3, Touché) by khallow on Thursday January 14 2021, @01:49PM