1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,010 John Greenewald: Hey everybody, John Greenewald here with the 2 00:00:05,010 --> 00:00:08,520 black vault.com. I am coming at you today with a brand new 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,720 story, something I wrote just a couple hours ago. And I get your 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,240 messages. By the way, I know some of you don't use social 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,570 media. So for those of you who don't, I'm going to try and make 6 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:22,260 these videos more often for all of you, time is never on my 7 00:00:22,260 --> 00:00:25,560 side. But with that being said, I'm definitely going to try 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,650 harder to do that and make these short videos because this 9 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:32,160 particular story, let me go ahead and bring it up is 10 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:35,580 something that was a little bit of a surprise. But I can tell 11 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:38,910 you that it was two years in the making. I've been chasing a 12 00:00:38,910 --> 00:00:42,870 document for two years to get this story. And to be honest 13 00:00:42,870 --> 00:00:45,720 with you, I had no idea if it was even going to be a story. 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,300 And thankfully, it turned out to be something cool. Now the 15 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,720 headline itself internal Navy document reveals previously 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:57,240 unknown UFO slash UAP encounter by f 18. Pilot, Senate staffers 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,530 briefed now really to kind of break that down. It is exactly 18 00:01:01,530 --> 00:01:04,980 how it reads. This particular document that I got released 19 00:01:04,980 --> 00:01:09,120 goes back, like I said, two years into a batch of emails 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,190 that I got back in 2019. Now we're kind of this stems from 21 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:17,040 because I do like to give a little bit of background is very 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,560 quickly back in February of 2019. I released all sorts of 23 00:01:22,590 --> 00:01:27,240 emails, by the way when it comes to the Navy and UAPs, published 24 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,980 about mid 2019. So this was back in February. And so in those 25 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:35,460 batches that I had published, I had found this very easily 26 00:01:35,460 --> 00:01:39,270 overlooked detail now, for all my FOIA people out there, you're 27 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:42,690 you're getting into FOIA, you're useful. These are types of 28 00:01:42,690 --> 00:01:45,660 things that you look out for. These are the types of things 29 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:49,110 that you want to look at a document that you get and seek 30 00:01:49,110 --> 00:01:51,630 out because then that sparks another request and this 31 00:01:51,630 --> 00:01:55,470 particular batch. This is what sparked it. There was a 32 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:56,550 political 33 00:01:57,630 --> 00:02:00,510 letter that was sent into the Office of Public Affairs. Now 34 00:02:00,510 --> 00:02:03,420 specifically, this was to Joseph Bradsher. He's the spokesperson 35 00:02:03,420 --> 00:02:06,780 of the spokespeople for the Navy. And although they redacted 36 00:02:06,780 --> 00:02:10,260 his name, it's pretty obvious. It's Brian bender. And I only 37 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:13,050 laugh because it's silly when they blackout somebody named to 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,910 shield their privacy yet in the first part says, Here's my piece 39 00:02:17,910 --> 00:02:20,400 on the original Pentagon program. And then it links to 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,030 Brian benders article. So pretty obvious. Anyway, Brian's doing 41 00:02:24,030 --> 00:02:26,430 what he does best. He's an investigative journalist, a good 42 00:02:26,430 --> 00:02:29,580 one at that he's broken a lot of stories. And I give him a lot of 43 00:02:29,580 --> 00:02:32,700 credit for that. So in February, he reached out had some 44 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:36,030 questions. And then internally, they started talking, the Navy 45 00:02:36,030 --> 00:02:39,810 started talking about what Brian was talking about when it comes 46 00:02:39,810 --> 00:02:43,500 to some of these UAP issues. Now, I invite you to read the 47 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,870 letters, I'm not going to go over every single word for you 48 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:48,870 and break it down. But rather what I want to show you was the 49 00:02:48,870 --> 00:02:52,650 internal communication between Joseph Bradsher who was the 50 00:02:52,650 --> 00:02:55,830 target of my request, a lot of blacked out people here, we 51 00:02:55,830 --> 00:02:59,760 don't know who the specific person that wrote this, again, 52 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,900 internally in the Navy, but he says team or he or she says 53 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:06,780 team, please see the below, can you please check into it? I 54 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:10,590 noticed on a previous Oh, LA Weekly, there was a brief to 55 00:03:10,590 --> 00:03:15,540 some staffers, on on on from a similar sounding program office. 56 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:19,230 Sorry, that's how it read, happy to hand this over to whomever is 57 00:03:19,230 --> 00:03:22,590 best positioned to respond. Another person chimes in 58 00:03:22,590 --> 00:03:26,700 forwarding it around to a couple people did oh la give a brief on 59 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:30,480 this. And so it just kind of goes and I have it all linked in 60 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,980 the show notes below, but also on the article itself. So what 61 00:03:34,980 --> 00:03:37,650 is that? Oh, LA Weekly, you know, what are they talking 62 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:41,130 about? A brief a UAP briefing. Obviously, as I noted in the 63 00:03:41,130 --> 00:03:44,490 article, if you've read it, details are scant, right, 64 00:03:44,490 --> 00:03:48,240 there's really nothing there other than it's Oh, LA Weekly, 65 00:03:48,420 --> 00:03:51,960 and UAP. Okay, so we know what UAP is. It's just the hot term 66 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,880 for today. For UFO. What is oh la No, oh, LA is the Office of 67 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,660 Legislative Affairs essentially. Oh, la for the Navy is that 68 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:04,110 office that deals with Legislative Affairs, meaning the 69 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:08,760 Senate Congress and those types of issues. So when I saw that, 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,700 put two and two together, you know that you're probably 71 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:14,370 getting into a congressional briefing of some kind. We know 72 00:04:14,370 --> 00:04:18,600 the topic is UAPs. So I dug in, I filed a request to get that 73 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:24,090 specific ol a weekly document. And it took well over a year for 74 00:04:24,090 --> 00:04:27,900 them to give me a no records response. Now why they gave me a 75 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,230 no records response, even though internally they were talking 76 00:04:31,230 --> 00:04:34,890 about it. I'm not really sure. Now the speed up the story, I 77 00:04:34,890 --> 00:04:40,260 have a right to appeal. Now my time to do so had expired, not 78 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:42,750 only because of time constraints, but on top of that, 79 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,500 you always want to formulate the appeal correctly. I needed to do 80 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,980 some more research. Realize that everything that I had submitted 81 00:04:49,980 --> 00:04:53,730 was correct. I added some more details filed a second case 82 00:04:53,940 --> 00:04:59,130 earlier this year in September of 2021. So again, here is that 83 00:04:59,130 --> 00:05:01,500 email that launched it all in the article. 84 00:05:02,669 --> 00:05:06,839 Well, I finally got the document itself. After two years, more 85 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,749 than two years from the original request, finally got it 86 00:05:09,749 --> 00:05:13,529 released. And although it's short and sweet, and although we 87 00:05:13,529 --> 00:05:17,969 all want more details than what is in here, you're going to find 88 00:05:17,969 --> 00:05:22,079 something that is essentially two different gems. And these 89 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:25,319 are things that you build off of through FOIA. Or if you don't 90 00:05:25,319 --> 00:05:28,259 even use FOIA, and you're just interested in this topic. Well, 91 00:05:28,289 --> 00:05:31,529 this is going to add a small piece to the puzzle. So although 92 00:05:31,529 --> 00:05:34,979 it took two years, pretty happy that I went in and kind of dug 93 00:05:34,979 --> 00:05:38,879 in on it, simply because of what it revealed. Now there's a about 94 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:42,209 12 pages or so from this Oh, LA Weekly, and that Office of 95 00:05:42,209 --> 00:05:45,299 Legislative Affairs, they do these weekly emails, they pretty 96 00:05:45,299 --> 00:05:48,569 much break down how they're communicating with Congress. And 97 00:05:48,569 --> 00:05:51,179 those weekly emails, give more details, what types of 98 00:05:51,179 --> 00:05:54,299 briefings, what types of legislative issues are coming 99 00:05:54,299 --> 00:05:57,959 up? How does it involve the Navy, all those documents again, 100 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:00,959 in the show notes, I invite you to look at them. But this one 101 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:05,069 specific item that was buried within this much longer list of 102 00:06:05,069 --> 00:06:09,479 legislative affair issues was this item E on the list 103 00:06:09,719 --> 00:06:15,149 anonymous, excuse me, anomalous aerial vehicle encounter brief 104 00:06:15,389 --> 00:06:19,889 to S A S. See now that's the Senate Armed Services Committee, 105 00:06:20,369 --> 00:06:25,679 PSM. Now that's professional staff members on 16 January and 106 00:06:25,679 --> 00:06:29,639 then it's redacted. This is likely a essentially like a code 107 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:34,589 to refer to the to the pilot that came in possibly a name but 108 00:06:34,589 --> 00:06:39,779 my guess is, you know, maybe a code of some kind. So in 16, 109 00:06:39,779 --> 00:06:45,749 January, this was 2019 and F 18. Pilot from VFA 103 met with the 110 00:06:45,749 --> 00:06:49,589 Senate Armed Services Committee, professional staff members, they 111 00:06:49,589 --> 00:06:52,589 likely listed the members they redacted all of those Senate 112 00:06:52,589 --> 00:06:55,979 Armed Services Committee, PSM have continued interest in 113 00:06:55,979 --> 00:06:59,699 unidentified aerial vehicle intercepts that have occurred in 114 00:06:59,699 --> 00:07:03,359 the working airspace off the US east coast. And again, the 115 00:07:03,359 --> 00:07:08,669 redacted pilot designator gave a detailed brief on his personal 116 00:07:08,669 --> 00:07:12,239 encounter. Now when I first read this, of course, there are these 117 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:16,859 more well known naval encounters like the tic tac incident, we 118 00:07:16,859 --> 00:07:21,149 know this is an IT and like the gimbal incident and those that 119 00:07:21,149 --> 00:07:24,629 occurred with the Roosevelt, that is also not it. Now, there 120 00:07:24,629 --> 00:07:29,249 was one other thing that has kind of been reported and my 121 00:07:30,479 --> 00:07:35,369 continued support and shout outs to Tyler rogue away, and Joseph 122 00:07:35,369 --> 00:07:39,869 Trevithick and the the war zone that drives the war zone. Again, 123 00:07:39,869 --> 00:07:41,849 I've got a lot of support for those guys, because they're 124 00:07:41,849 --> 00:07:45,749 breaking a lot of these stories, and they tie into this 125 00:07:45,749 --> 00:07:49,589 particular story. Because when you start breaking down what I 126 00:07:49,589 --> 00:07:55,439 just read, let's start with VFA 103 VFA 103 Are the jolly 127 00:07:55,439 --> 00:07:58,619 Rogers. They're stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana in 128 00:07:58,619 --> 00:08:02,939 Virginia Beach, Virginia. Now, the reason why this is kind of 129 00:08:02,939 --> 00:08:07,739 interesting, is that's where Tyler Rockaway and Joe come in, 130 00:08:07,949 --> 00:08:12,029 is that they wrote, let me pull it up for you here. This is 131 00:08:12,029 --> 00:08:14,699 their article here are the Navy pilot reports from encounters 132 00:08:14,699 --> 00:08:17,999 with mysterious aircraft off off the east coast. They wrote this 133 00:08:17,999 --> 00:08:22,109 in May of 2020. Why do I feel this fits into the story? Well, 134 00:08:22,139 --> 00:08:24,539 credit to those guys for breaking the story. These were 135 00:08:24,539 --> 00:08:29,069 the naval Safety Center reports about naval encounters with what 136 00:08:29,069 --> 00:08:34,799 they were terming as UAP UFOs unidentified objects, and they 137 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,819 broke down quite a few of them. Not all of them, but a lot of 138 00:08:38,819 --> 00:08:44,129 them dealt with Naval Air Station, Oceana. same location 139 00:08:44,129 --> 00:08:46,889 as the jolly Rogers. And they went through all the different 140 00:08:46,889 --> 00:08:51,269 reports in this particular article. And they broke down 141 00:08:51,299 --> 00:08:58,799 those that were mentioned VFA 11, PFA 143 and VFA 106. So the 142 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:01,799 Dr. outlined all of those encounters, but what wasn't on 143 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:05,729 there was VFA 103. What does that mean? That this particular 144 00:09:05,729 --> 00:09:10,169 UAP encounter is brand new. I've looked all around, please, 145 00:09:10,199 --> 00:09:13,259 whomever is out there, and they go, Wait a minute, I saw this 146 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,399 reported, you know, here, please let me know, correct 147 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,620 me if I'm wrong, but I looked in quite a few different places, 148 00:09:19,620 --> 00:09:23,790 talk to a few journalists, talk to a few friends, people that 149 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:27,840 that I trust and that follow this type of stuff. It really 150 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,810 didn't sound familiar to anybody. So I'm pretty confident 151 00:09:30,810 --> 00:09:34,410 that this is a brand new encounter altogether. Now, why 152 00:09:34,410 --> 00:09:38,100 that is meaningful, even though the documents that I received 153 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:42,240 don't have a photograph of video or some kind of description like 154 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,300 it's a flying triangle coming out of the water, which is 155 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,810 highly rumored about or whatever it may be, even though we don't 156 00:09:48,810 --> 00:09:54,390 have that the mere mention of the UAP a UAP case that there's 157 00:09:54,390 --> 00:09:59,670 previously unknown supports that there's a lot to this. We have 158 00:09:59,670 --> 00:10:03,840 yet to see, and that a lot of people are basing opinions on, 159 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,740 let's say, the tic tac video or the gimbal. Well, this is 160 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:12,510 proving that still we do not have the full picture. And on 161 00:10:12,510 --> 00:10:15,630 top of that, for those that do dabble in the FOIA, these are 162 00:10:15,630 --> 00:10:21,060 the leads that you look for, for looking for these types of 163 00:10:21,090 --> 00:10:24,420 documents, one document turns into five different requests. 164 00:10:24,630 --> 00:10:27,330 And it yields hopefully something else. I showed you the 165 00:10:27,330 --> 00:10:31,620 route of how I got here to find this. That's exactly what you do 166 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,520 with this particular passage. Short and sweet. Yes, I've 167 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:41,670 already filed to find out that to find out if the Navy has any 168 00:10:41,670 --> 00:10:45,930 material that this particular pilot was approved to go to that 169 00:10:45,930 --> 00:10:50,220 briefing with, potentially handout potentially show, was 170 00:10:50,220 --> 00:10:53,670 there a video? Was there a photograph, I'm looking for the 171 00:10:53,670 --> 00:10:57,840 email communications about it? Again, you really look for those 172 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,510 gems, and one of the things I like to do with these videos, 173 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,760 and it may bore some of you is that for others, for the other, 174 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,940 some of us, you may be interested in what you're 175 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,720 looking for when you look at documents like this. And that's 176 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,210 what it is. That's why I like to break it down, you look for 177 00:11:15,210 --> 00:11:18,210 those little nuggets, and those types of gems that you just 178 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:22,440 chase after. And I often liken FOIA to a tree branch, you got 179 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,230 your first document, that's your trunk, and you've got all these 180 00:11:25,230 --> 00:11:29,070 branches that stem off of it. And that is exactly how I always 181 00:11:29,070 --> 00:11:33,180 approach the FOIA. And how I approach topics like this. So 182 00:11:33,210 --> 00:11:37,290 two big gems here, too. You've got the UAP encounter brand new, 183 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,990 I don't think that that's ever been revealed before. And 184 00:11:39,990 --> 00:11:44,820 hopefully now with this concrete evidence that a briefing took 185 00:11:44,820 --> 00:11:47,550 place, we can get more documents, and that is the 186 00:11:47,550 --> 00:11:52,020 second gem that a briefing took place. This was not the tic tac, 187 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,230 this was not the gimbal incident or go faster. The Roosevelt 188 00:11:55,230 --> 00:11:58,560 encounters that we've heard so much about, this is a unknown 189 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:02,580 pilot, what appears to be a brand new one, we don't know his 190 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:06,150 name. They do, say his encounter. So we can know that 191 00:12:06,150 --> 00:12:10,860 it's a male pilot. We know that it was important enough to brief 192 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:14,760 Senate staffers. So whatever this is, it's something 193 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,020 important enough, and it is on the same level, as those that we 194 00:12:19,020 --> 00:12:23,340 have heard about and potentially even better is something more 195 00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:27,660 interesting. So what that will be what we'll see if the FOIA 196 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:31,830 yields anything else, if we can bring anything else, I have 197 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:35,040 forward this forwarded this article, to a couple people I 198 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,650 won't name in hopes that the pilot may receive this article 199 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:45,000 and see that his briefing is now out in the open, and let's all 200 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,620 cross our fingers, maybe that pilot will decide to come out, I 201 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:52,500 have the utmost respect for the men and women who serve in our 202 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:56,610 military and fly in our skies and protect our nation. And it's 203 00:12:56,610 --> 00:13:00,210 not my interest to out anybody who doesn't want to be outed. So 204 00:13:00,210 --> 00:13:03,660 I'll say that upfront. I'm not interested in that. But what I 205 00:13:03,660 --> 00:13:07,410 am interested in is if he wants a safe place to tell his story 206 00:13:07,410 --> 00:13:11,850 and his encounter, and expand on an unclassified level about what 207 00:13:11,850 --> 00:13:16,680 he experienced, I will definitely give him a home to do 208 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,520 that. So hopefully, if someone out there knows who this is, 209 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,700 please by all means, forward it to him and let him know he's got 210 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:26,430 a friendly home here and a lot of people that would want to 211 00:13:26,430 --> 00:13:29,460 hear his story. So that's the new document. That's the new 212 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:33,030 article. I love bringing these things to you guys. And again, 213 00:13:33,030 --> 00:13:35,640 for those that are interested in FOIA. I hope those little 214 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,480 sidebars help you as well. 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Make sure you do and 224 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:13,350 the biggest help of all is spreading the word so make sure 225 00:14:13,350 --> 00:14:16,140 you spread that around to your social media channels. huge help 226 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:17,040 to me as always, 227 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,830 this is John Greenewald Jr signing off, and we'll see you 228 00:14:19,830 --> 00:14:20,340 next time.