Author: John Greenewald

Background On December 29, 2020, Honolulu Police Department contacted the FAA to report an unknown aircraft. They believed based on a report they received, that an unknown craft possibly went down 300 yards offshore. A photo also circulated when the report was reported by numerous media outlets. The FAA created the below report, and does not appear to have pursued the case any further. Note: The Black Vault is aware of multiple very plausible explanations for this UFO event including an LED skydiver or kite. The release of these records by the FAA is not an endorsement or belief by…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKsPw2t8MFA https://youtu.be/KevTGEHxKd4 The below is NASA’s Press Release 21-039. It is archived here for reference: Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). “Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “The X-15 was a pathfinder for…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYZ2BEiOzG4 Back in early December 2020, the now infamous “Batman Balloon” leaked and was published. Although not popular at the time, I put forth a theory on why it may all be happening, and why it was seemingly so easy to debunk. This is an excerpt from that presentation. Now, in April of 2021, even MORE material is coming to light. And the Pentagon, just doesn’t seem to care. In fact, on this recent round of material, it seemed a bit too easy to get a response from them regarding the leak, and they acknowledged it was all genuine. However,…

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Background This federal operations plan describes specific strategies to execute a unified response to a severe incident anywhere in Region IX. This plan focuses on the coordinated deployment of federal incident management and response capabilities, equipment, and resources in support of state and local response to any severe incident. Document Archive All-Hazards Emergency Management Plan for Region IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific  Islands [90 Pages, 11MB]

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Background James McDivitt is an American former test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He commanded the Gemini 4 flight during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk, and later the Apollo 9 flight which was the first crewed flight test of the Lunar Module and the complete set of Apollo flight hardware. He later became Manager of Lunar Landing Operations and was the Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager from 1969 to 1972. In 1987, the U.S. Air Force conducted this oral history interview, over the course…

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