A newly released collection of records from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office provides a substantially more detailed look at the government-sponsored UAP research workshop held outside Washington, D.C., in August 2025, including a working agenda identifying speakers and panelists, previously unreleased correspondence concerning foreign participation, and evidence that AARO was already discussing a follow-on workshop months before the first event took place. The records also document a separate Pentagon engagement with representatives of Uruguay’s official UAP investigative organization, including plans for reciprocal mission briefings, discussions about future collaboration, lunch with senior AARO personnel and a private Pentagon tour. The…
Author: John Greenewald
The Department of the Navy has released more than 1,300 pages of emails and related records involving former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray, opening a broad window into government communications surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena during a pivotal period in the Pentagon’s modern UAP effort. The records were obtained by The Black Vault through a Freedom of Information Act request filed on May 24, 2022. The request sought emails sent to, from, copied to or blind-copied to Bray containing terms including “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” “UAP,” “UAPTF,” “UFO,” “AATIP,” “AAWSAP” and several related phrases. More than four years later,…
Newly released Central Intelligence Agency records provide the most complete look yet at two separate attempts by Jeffrey Epstein, which were more than a decade apart, to determine what information the CIA maintained about him. The records were obtained by The Black Vault after case numbers for Epstein’s Privacy Act requests surfaced within the broader government release of Epstein-related files. Rather than requesting CIA records about Epstein specifically, The Black Vault used those case identifiers, listed as P-1999-02450 and P-2011-00673, to seek the records generated during the processing of the two cases. This also stemmed from a public call to…
A Freedom of Information Act request seeking National Security Agency records mentioning or cross-referencing QAnon has produced a limited set of material: an internal employee discussion in which QAnon was invoked casually as a joke, records associated with an earlier FOIA request filed by The Black Vault, and, more significantly, confirmation that the NSA located a separate three-page document that remains classified SECRET and was withheld in its entirety. The NSA’s March 25, 2026, response concerned a FOIA request filed on February 10, 2020, seeking records that “pertain or mention or contain cross references to QAnon.” The request covered records…
A mathematical study published inside the National Security Agency six decades ago has been released through the Freedom of Information Act, more than nine years after The Black Vault requested it. The paper, “Coupon Collecting and Cryptology,” was written by Marie Capozza and published in the Fall 1966 edition of the NSA Technical Journal. Although the title had been publicly identified for years in declassified indexes of NSA publications, searches conducted by The Black Vault did not locate a previously public copy of the paper itself. The 1966 study released in response to the FOIA request therefore provides a newly…