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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: 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.
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