Case File Status: Insufficient Evidence Background The following case was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations on December 18, 2017. Witness Testimony I live in a separate building from the main house at this address. I was walking towards the west after taking out the trash, and I saw a shooting star directly above the main house. It went straight down, which was weird, and it lasted longer than a typical shooting star. But what was really weird was that its trajectory changed and it appeared to curve towards the west (away from me) at a practically 90…
Author: John Greenewald
Case File Status: Hoax Background by John Greenewald, Jr. – The Black Vault – TBV Investigations This photograph appears on the Facebook / Edge of Wonder Page, as posted on February 14, 2018. Although there may be an earlier post “source” — this post alone has nearly 15,000 shares and more than 1,500 likes at the time of this writing, it constitutes as “viral” and deserves a mention here. Reason being, the photograph is a fairly provable fake. But, don’t let that stop the masses from “sharing” it with the world. Why? Well, it has to be real despite evidence to…
Case File Status: Insufficient Evidence / No contact with witness The following case was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations on January 26, 2018. It was assigned to team member Christopher Connelly for investigation. Witnesses Testimony UFO seen over Central Texas. This is a stop motion video I made by taking several long exposure photos of the sky and stitching them together in order. My camera isn’t good enough in low light to capture a video, so this is the best I could do. We saw it for 6 nights in a row, same location in the sky…
Background by Rob Mercer I was recently scanning in documents from the Project Blue Book collection I received a few years ago to share on The Black Vault (see From The Desks Of Project Book). This allowed me to take the time to closer inspect some of the items that previously, I had only glanced at. The following three-page, hand written letter was stapled together and folded among a stack of other correspondences. The letter was written to Project Blue Book in 1969 from a then 71 year old man named James T. Kirk. It was regarding an event he…
Case File Status: Insufficient Witness Contact / Stalled Background The following case was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations. However, after numerous attempts by team member Rob Mercer to contact the witness by phone and email, they did not return any messages. We decided to archive the case, in hopes the witness may reach out in the future, or corroborating testimony can be discovered. Witness Testimony The following was submitted by the witness (unedited): I joined the Air Force in February, 1996. After basic training, I was sent to Ft. Huachuca, Arizona (an Army base) for more training.…
