The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released thousands of documents related to UFOs and published them online, sparking huge interest from UFO enthusiasts. The CIA claims that this is absolutely everything they currently know about unidentified flying objects.
The documents have been made available on the 'Black Vault' an online resource where declassified documents are shared with the public. The documentation runs to around 2,700 pages but has been criticised for being difficult to read and difficult to understand in context.
Included in the documentation is a report of strange objects being seen over the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and other reports of mysterious explosions in Russia that are believed in some way linked to UFO sightings.
John Greenewald Jr., the founder of Black Vault website, said that the documents had deliberately been made difficult to understand. He told reporters:
"The CIA has made it INCREDIBLY difficult to use their records in a reasonable manner. They offer a format that is very outdated (multi page .tif) and offer text file outputs, largely unusable, that I think they intend to have people use as a "search" tool. In my opinion, this outdated format makes it very difficult for people to see the documents, and use them, for any research purpose."
The release of the documents comes just as lawmakers in the United States have begun to take a more serious look at UFOs. This interest follows on from a number of videos caught by US military aircraft that show UFOs flying at speeds not achievable by any technology that the US currently knows about. It has led many to worry that foreign states such as Russia or China may have advanced technologies that are far superior to those currently held by the US.
Senator Marco Rubio, who leads the Senate intelligence committee, noted this recently when discussing the UFO issue, saying:
"Frankly, if it's something from outside this planet, that might actually be better than the fact that we've seen some sort of technological leap on behalf of the Chinese or the Russians or some other adversary."
Greenewald has now been investigating UFOs and what the US Government knows about UFOs for over 25 years. In an interview with Vice News, he spoke of his motivation behind his long campaign, saying:
"Plain and simple, the public has a right to know! When I began researching nearly 25 years ago at the age of 15, I knew there was something to this topic. Not because of viral internet hoaxes. Not because of back door meetings wherein I can't tell you who, but I promise it was mind-blowing information. No, none of that. It was simply because of the evidence that I got straight from the CIA. And the NSA. And the Air Force. And the DIA. I feel I am achieving what I set out to do. Easy access, to important material, for people to make up their own minds on what is going on."
h/t: Vice
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