A 1955 memo has recently been further declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), chronicling a unique event: the sighting of a “saucer-like” craft by a former U.S. Senator while in Russia during the height of the Cold War. The declassified top-secret memo, written by Herbert Scoville Jr., then-Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence for the CIA, provides a fascinating account of former Senator Richard B. Russell’s encounter with unknown objects seen by multiple witnesses. The document was released after The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) case on January 6, 2020. The case took just over two years to…
Author: John Greenewald
On May 22, 2023, investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp published what they called the “Mojave Triangle UAP”. Controversy immediately began, as the debate between those who thought it was flares vs. those who believed it was a giant triangle, raged on. The flare debate escalated when The Black Vault posted on Twitter a video from the DoD, shot the same night as the alleged UAP encounter, which matched up nearly identically with the “UAP” footage circulating on the web and in the mainstream media. According to Corbell and Knapp, as published on their “Weaponized” podcast website: “Investigative journalists…
Background The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, is one of the most significant events in American history. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party. The motorcade route through Dealey Plaza was planned in advance, and Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, along with Texas Governor John Connally, were riding in an open-top convertible limousine when the shots were fired. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested and charged with the assassination. Oswald was shot…
Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today the release of a report of investigation regarding the Federal Bureau of Prison’s (BOP) custody, care, and supervision of Jeffrey Epstein while detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York (MCC New York). Epstein died by suicide on August 10, 2019, while in BOP custody. The focus of DOJ Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) investigation was the conduct of BOP personnel. The DOJ OIG investigation and review identified: Numerous and Serious Failures by MCC New York Staff. The DOJ OIG found numerous and serious failures…
This report responds to the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which called for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to declassify information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines the IC’s understanding of the WIV, its capabilities, and the actions of its personnel leading up to and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological facilities in Wuhan other than the WIV. A classified annex to…