Note from The Black Vault: The below “media roundtable” took place on December 16, 2022, and was an invite-only event that was not advertised. The Black Vault was invited to attend, which I did via the telephone. Although I was in line to ask a question along with a follow up, I was not called upon. I am working with the Pentagon Office of Public Affairs to get my questions answered, and if they are, I will bring that to you. Until then, you can find the entire transcript of the nearly one hour roundtable below. USD(I&S) Ronald Moultrie and…
Author: John Greenewald
In the military world of researching Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAP, the list of research efforts, acronyms and “task forces” keeps getting bigger. Despite some controversy and fine-print details on the exact scope of some earlier programs, the efforts known as AAWSAP, AATIP, UAPTF, AOIMSG, and AARO have all been said to represent some form of research into UAP, most of which was officially sanctioned and mandated. Now, that list gets even longer, and two formerly classified Top Secret reports from the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) written in July and August of 2020 and released in part to The…
On July 17, 1984, Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, the Director of the National Security Agency, asked the National Cryptologic School to produce a ‘popular history’ of the Agency aimed principally at new employees who perhaps were unaware of the past accomplishments of NSA. As the project evolved, the National Cryptologic School envisioned an informal collection of significant experiences from the Agency’s past which stressed NSA accomplishments as the best way to make new employees aware of the unique history of NSA and United States SIGINT and COMSEC efforts. At the same time the History and Publications Division was asked…
Background For the appropriate background, Wikipedia gives an extensive one to provide just that. It is published here for research purposes, and the documents can be seen below it. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from “Mount McKinley” to “Denali”. The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 by a gold prospector, and officially by the federal government of the United States in 1917 to commemorate William McKinley, who was President of the United…
What is the Pentagon’s Newest UFO Office AARO Up To? A current FOIA case has shed some light on what’s going on – and it contradicts some recent rumors out there. So, here’s the little I know, all backed up with sourced and official communications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKSU2earlg