CIA declassifies trove of UFO documents for online ‘Black Vault’ that reveals ‘mystery explosions’ and ‘alien contact’
A TREASURE trove of CIA files about UFO sightings across the globe has been published online.
The dossier is bursting with hundreds of declassified records containing once top secret information on "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAPs).
UAP is the US government's preferred term for aerial objects that experts cannot immediately identify or explain.
Many may turn out to be tricks of the light or a fault in a pilot's instruments, but a handful are targets of investigations by The Pentagon.
"Around 20 years ago, I had fought for years to get additional UFO records released from the CIA," Greenewald said.
"It was like pulling teeth! I went around and around with them to try and do so, finally achieving it.
Whether you believe the tales or not, Greenwald believes releasing the files is a matter of public importance.
"Plain and simple, the public has a right to know!" he told Motherboard.
It comes just six months ahead of a hotly-anticipated UFO report to be published by the US government.
The Pentagon and spy agencies will have to reveal everything they know about spooky sightings as part of legislation snuck into the Covid-19 relief bill signed by US President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Intelligence experts were given just 180 days to compile an official report on sightings of mysterious aircrafts near American military bases, which will later be made public.
Fermi Paradox – what is it?
Here's what you need to know...
- The Fermi Paradox isn't strict evidence for alien life – but more of a thought experiment
- It's a famous contradiction posed by physicist Enrico Fermi
- Fermi suggested that the enormous size of the universe – and the billions of Sun-like stars in the galaxy, and their planets – makes it highly likely that there is intelligent life out there
- Some of these civilisations may have developed interstellar travel
- But Fermi also noted that there's a significant lack of evidence for life on other planets
- The chances of aliens being able to reach us are high, but there's no evidence that aliens ever have
- This paradox has baffled scientists for decades
In other news, UFO experts have hit out after it emerged a dossier into Britain’s most significant sighting is to be kept secret for another 50 years.
A researcher claimed last year that the discovery of alien life was not only "inevitable" but also "imminent".
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