The below gallery of photographs have been released by the Department of Defense (DoD), relating to the shoot down of, “… a high altitude surveillance balloon within sovereign U.S. airspace and over U.S. territorial waters Feb. 4, 2023.” “Active duty, Reserve, National Guard, and civilian personnel planned and executed the operation, and partners from the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, and Federal Bureau of Investigation ensured public safety throughout the operation and recovery efforts.” This gallery will be updated when new photographs become available. Gallery
Author: John Greenewald
This article was originally published on June 10, 2020. It was updated on February 7, 2023, to include documents released by the U.S. Navy pertaining to the investigation. Those are available at the end of this article. Background The UFO videos circulated as the “Gimbal,” “Flir1” and “GoFast” have received widespread coverage in the media. However, controversy has surrounded the videos as being “unauthorized leaks” vs. “officially released.” As first broken by Vice News / Tim McMillan, AFOSI investigated the release of the videos. In early December of 2019, The Black Vault had also filed for similar records (FOIA Case…
Background Devices exist which, by sending an electrical impulse of ultrasonic frequency through a telephone circuit by tapping, will permit remote surveillance of any office in which a telephone is located by utilizing the telephone microphone as a pick-up. Such eavesdropping may be accomplished without additional wires and is possible even though the handset is in a “hung-up” position. Below, you will find thousands of pages archived from the FBI on ultrasonic listening devices, wiretapping, violations, and countermeasures. Document Archive Ultrasonic Listening Devices / Wiretapping, 1945 – 1989 (80-HQ-760) – Release #1 – [1,064 Pages, 200.1MB] Ultrasonic Listening Devices / Wiretapping,…
The purpose of this “evaluation” by the Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, was to: “determine whether the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence’s, the U.S. Southern Command’s, the U.S. Central Command’s, and the U.S. Special Operations Command’s oversight of intelligence interrogation approaches and techniques adhered to applicable DoD policies and regulations.” The Black Vault filed for the report on April 22, 2019, and it was released (with redactions) on January 26, 2023. Document Archive Evaluation of the Oversight of Intelligence Interrogation Approaches and Techniques (DODIG-2019-077) [90 Pages, 9.5MB]
In August of 2013, the report Smart Power and U.S. National Strategy from the Joint Special Operations University, stated the following about Operation Earnest Voice: A recently disclosed U.S. classified operation seeks to develop software that allows the use of fake online identities or “sock puppets” to influence Internet conversations and spread strategic communications. According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesman Navy Commander Bill Speaks, “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign language websites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the U.S. When completed, the software would allow the U.S. to “respond to emerging…