Case File Status: Unidentified, Possible Explanation Below Background The following was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations on December 20th, 2017. The witness described the encounter as the following: “This sighting took place in my backyard in Long Beach CA, Carson Park to be specific. I spend many hours per week sky watching in the yard and have seen and recorded many UFOs there. When I first spotted the UFO it looked very bright and was moving steadily across the sky. There were actually two objects at first when I spotted this bright orb. From a distance it looked larger…
Author: John Greenewald
Case File Status: HOAX Background On social media, this particular photograph has been passed around in various Facebook groups and websites. It depicts NASA engineers at Dryden, posing with an unidentified craft in the shape of a flying saucer. The Photograph The Analysis The investigation on this, is very simple, and was easy to conduct. The hoaxer who created the image, did not even bother to change the photograph identification number. On the photograph in question, you will note it says: E49-059 as a Photo Identification number. A quick search of the NASA Dryden Photo archives, reveals to real photograph with…
Case File Status: Inconclusive, Insufficient Evidence Background On December 18, 2017, a UFO witness submitted the following (and asked for anonymity) and the date given was approximate: “Travelling south on 4 lane highway 35mph limit saw a black pyramid shaped object float over tree tops on my left and fly above and in front of my now stopped car. I stopped my car because this was the strangest thing I ever saw up until that time. It stopped in front and above of me. It checked me out(only car on the road) and I checked it out for maybe 10…
Case File Status: Insufficient Evidence Background by Michael Kelly, TBV Investigations On December 19, 2017, Ronald Male submitted the following UFO sighting to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations, which he witnessed from his driveway in Cazenovia, New York. The event occurred on July 19, 2006 at 10:30am: I brought my breakfast (bowl of cereal) outdoors to eat while sitting in my spring chair to be in the sun in the driveway on a very nice morning. As usual, the chair took a moment to stabilize, and when it stopped the back and forth rocking motion I was able to…
Case File Status: Hoax / Explainable Background On January 16, 2018, the following post went “viral” on the Facebook wall of Kurt Norris, who appears to be one of the originators and the root of this story. Although I do not “blame” him for the misinformation regarding this case, the internet as a whole did that part all on it’s own by forwarding, sharing and reposting the photos, most with allegations that aliens were attacking or that the government was using a particle beam weapons. Many posts claimed that Facebook was deleting the evidence, and urged others to forward/share/like etc. which…
