Mystery solved? CIA releases all records on UFOs to public

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released massive data of the US government’s records on UFOs for over three decades and the data can now be downloaded by the common people.

According to reports, the documents are currently available on the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents. Now the truth is perhaps out there in .zip file, which primarily deals with information of UFOs, which by definition remain a mystery. Although it might need dedicated digging.

The Black Vault, a UFO enthusiast site and clearinghouse for related government files, recently published approximately 2,700 pages of the declassified documents provided by the CIA.

The CIA told the Black Vault that the document includes its “entire” collection of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

Black Vault site founder John Greenewald.Jr spent decades trying to get his hands on the documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws and he finally succeeded last year. CIA gave the files to Mr. Greenwald, in a CD-Rom. CIA claims that all files it has on UFO are present in the CD, but Greenewald notes on his website that “there may be no way to entirely verify that”.

Some of the reports, including one about the mysterious explosion in a Russian town and another with a first-hand account of a strange sighting of a flying object near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, are the sort of reads that you might expect to find in a science fiction novel rather than official government documents. But some of the documents are difficult to read, and what exactly they were used for is unclear. Greenewald told a news site that the intelligence agency put the documents together in an “outdated” format that makes it hard to parse the collection.

The Black Vault hosts more than 2.2 million pages of government documents obtained through approximately 10,000 FOIA requests.

The site also has a history of obtaining high-profile disclosures. In 2019, a U.S. navy spokesperson confirmed that three leaked government videos of UFOs were legitimate.

The Pentagon declassified the videos and released them to the public last year, citing the need for pilots to feel comfortable reporting such phenomena.

The disclosure put fuel on the burning question about the possibility that alien life might have visited Earth, though there remains no definitive proof of such claims.

Speculation flared up again late last year after Israel’s former head of space security claimed there was a “Galactic Federation” of aliens who didn’t want humans in their club. He also claimed that the heads of the U.S. and Israel were in touch with the aliens, and that the extraterrestrials had helped set up human bases on Mars.

He did not provide evidence to support his claims.