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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: 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.