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FAA Records Reveal Military Prepared to Engage Drone During San Diego Airport Shutdown; ATC Audio References Possible Shootdown
A September 4, 2026, disruption at San Diego International Airport that delayed hundreds of flights is now documented in newly released Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, including air traffic control recordings and two Mandatory Occurrence Reports describing sightings of suspected…
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FBI Files: Civil Rights Era
Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent…
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Stargate Collection: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, 9 June 1983
Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the "Stargate Collection" release. It is a 1983 assessment of what LTC Wayne McDonnell thought about what was called…
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FBI Files: World Leaders & International Politicians
Here are FBI Files of world leaders and politicians from around the globe. Declassified World Leaders FBI Files Adulyadej, Bhumibol - [8 Pages, 1.6MB] - Bhumibol Adulyadej (5 December 1927 - 13 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol…
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FAA Training Records Detail Toxicology and Autopsy Procedures Following Fatal Aviation Accidents
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The records were released on October 12, 2023, in response to Freedom of Information Act request,…
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Larry W. Bryant and the CIA: UFO Investigations, FOIA Disputes, and Government Correspondence
Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work included efforts to obtain documents concerning unidentified flying objects, intelligence activities, and government accountability. Bryant…
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NSA FOIA Records Detail Pentagon's 1992 Search for Answers on Missing Cold War Aircrews
Records released by the National Security Agency to The Black Vault in September 2025, and now being published online by The Black Vault, provide additional details about a 1992 Pentagon effort to examine Cold War reconnaissance losses and determine whether…
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CIA Release Reveals Internal Bin Laden Raid Talking Points, Q&A and Declassification Records
A newly obtained Central Intelligence Agency release provides a detailed look at the material prepared inside the U.S. government for the public rollout following the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including internal talking points, an extensive question-and-answer…
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The 1980 Reagan-Carter "Debategate" Scandal
The 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan became the subject of a political controversy after it was revealed that Reagan's campaign had obtained confidential materials prepared for Carter ahead of their nationally televised…
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New CIA Release Reveals More About Counterterrorism Problems Before 9/11
A new CIA release obtained by The Black Vault has restored significant portions of an August 2001 Inspector General review of the agency's Counterterrorist Center, adding details that had remained classified when the report was publicly released more than 15…
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Navy Releases Hundreds of Pages on Cold War-Era "Advanced Naval Vehicles," Including Nuclear-Powered Aircraft and High-Speed Warship Concepts
A newly completed Freedom of Information Act release from the U.S. Navy provides hundreds of pages of detailed technical, cost and mission analysis from a late-1970s effort to determine what the next generation of naval vehicles might look like, which…
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FBI Files on Cryptography - FBI File #80-HQ-612
Background Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption)-conversion of messages from a comprehensible form into an incomprehensible one and back again at the other end, rendering it unreadable by interceptors or eavesdroppers without secret…
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Behind AARO's Private UAP Workshop: New Records Detail Participants, Foreign Outreach and Future Plans
A newly released collection of records from the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office provides a substantially more detailed look at the government-sponsored UAP research workshop held outside Washington, D.C., in August 2025, including a working agenda identifying speakers and panelists,…
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Navy Releases Massive Cache of Scott Bray UAP Emails After Four Years; More Than 300 Pages Withheld in Full
The Department of the Navy has released more than 1,300 pages of emails and related records involving former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray, opening a broad window into government communications surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena during a pivotal…
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Inside Jeffrey Epstein's CIA Privacy Act Requests for Records About Himself
Newly released Central Intelligence Agency records provide the most complete look yet at two separate attempts by Jeffrey Epstein, which were more than a decade apart, to determine what information the CIA maintained about him. The records were obtained by…
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NSA Located a Classified QAnon-Related Record - All Three Pages Were Withheld
A Freedom of Information Act request seeking National Security Agency records mentioning or cross-referencing QAnon has produced a limited set of material: an internal employee discussion in which QAnon was invoked casually as a joke, records associated with an earlier…
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NSA Releases 1966 Secret Study on "Coupon Collecting and Cryptology" After Nine-Year FOIA Wait
A mathematical study published inside the National Security Agency six decades ago has been released through the Freedom of Information Act, more than nine years after The Black Vault requested it. The paper, "Coupon Collecting and Cryptology," was written by…
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NSA Releases Cold War-Era Style "Technology Forecasts" on Brain-Network Interfaces, Terahertz Systems, Energy Harvesting and More
A collection of eight National Security Agency technology forecasting studies, spanning topics from privacy and anonymity to brain-network interfaces, advanced antennas and terahertz electronics, has been released through the Freedom of Information Act after a request that dated back to…
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Pentagon Says It Has No Record of "Immaculate Constellation" - NSA Denies Appeal and Won't Say Whether It Does
The National Security Agency has upheld its refusal to confirm or deny whether it possesses intelligence records concerning the alleged "Immaculate Constellation" program, rejecting a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by The Black Vault. The decision does not establish…
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Benghazi Attack, 9/11/2012
On the night of September 11, 2012, armed attackers assaulted U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, beginning at the State Department's Special Mission compound and continuing into the early hours of September 12 at a nearby CIA annex. Four Americans…
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NSA's PROMIS: What the Declassified Records Actually Show
PROMIS has accumulated decades of controversy, competing claims and, at times, confusion over what the name itself actually refers to. The records released by the National Security Agency provide an important distinction. The NSA's PROMIS, or Product Management Information System,…
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NSA Releases Heavily Redacted 1972 Technical Journal Article After Nine-Year FOIA Wait
More than nine years after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was submitted to the National Security Agency, the agency has released a heavily redacted copy of a 1972 NSA Technical Journal article titled "Maybe It's Related to the…
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Department of War Issues New UAP Disclosure Waiver; But Similar Protections Already Existed
The Department of War announced September 14, 2026, that it has issued a targeted legal waiver allowing current and former military personnel, civilian employees and contractors to provide protected information concerning Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) directly to designated representatives of…
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CIA Releases 71 Presidential Daily Briefs Detailing Intelligence Before 9/11 Attacks
The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday released 71 declassified President's Daily Brief documents related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, opening a new collection of intelligence assessments that documented what the U.S. government was receiving about Usama Bin Ladin,…
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- 2024-11-18NJ
Beginning in November 2024, thousands of reports of large drones or unidentified objects were made across New Jersey and neighboring states, including near military facilities such as Picatinny Arsenal. The reports prompted FAA flight restrictions, a federal multi-agency investigation, and extensive media coverage.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 2023-05-01Las Vegas, NV
On the night of 30 April to 1 May 2023, a Las Vegas family called 911 to report a crash in their backyard and the presence of tall figures, shortly after a bright object was recorded on a police officer's body camera and reported across the region. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police investigated the property and released the bodycam footage and 911 call.
Source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
- 2010-07-07
On the evening of 7 July 2010, Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, China, was closed for about an hour after a flight crew reported an object near the airport. Outbound flights were grounded and inbound flights were diverted, and the event was widely reported by Chinese state media and international outlets.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
- 2008-06-12
Between 2007 and 2009, night guard Murat Yalçın recorded video of objects over the Sea of Marmara near Kumburgaz, Turkey. The footage was presented at a 2009 press conference by the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center and received wide media coverage in Turkey and internationally.
Source: Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center
- 2008-01-08Lights · Stephenville, TX
Dozens of residents in and around Stephenville reported a large object and bright lights in the evening sky. The Air Force later stated that F-16 fighters had been training in the area that night.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006-11-07Disc · Chicago, IL
United Airlines employees at O'Hare International Airport reported a disc-shaped object hovering over a gate before shooting up through the clouds. The FAA attributed it to a weather phenomenon.
Source: Wikipedia
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