Welcome to The Black Vault Document Archive
You’ve stumbled upon the largest privately run online repository of declassified government documents anywhere in the world. With more than 3 MILLION pages of documents to read, on nearly every government secret imaginable, The Black Vault is known worldwide for getting down to the truth… and nothing but.
Every page, photo and video you see below in this "FOIA Document Archive" was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or through other means of accessing U.S. government public information.
Begun in 1996, at the age of 15, John Greenewald, Jr., began hammering the U.S. Government with FOIA requests to obtain information. The Black Vault is the result of that more than two decade effort. Enjoy!
In recent years, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) have received significant attention from both the public and governmental bodies, raising questions…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a series of documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act…
Background Operation 40 was a covert operation established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1960 during the early years…
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) released a copy of an internal lecture delivered by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper from…
A previously classified Department of Defense (DoD) directive, titled “Chemical Weapons Policy” (S-3145.2), dated July 23, 1987, has been released…
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted on March 23, 2022, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)…
A recent FOIA release has provided insight into the Department of Defense’s internal communications concerning two significant reports from 2022.…