This month , it came to light source that the latestcoronavirusrelief billcontainsa provision requiring U.S. tidings agency to cover everything they love about unidentified flying object . They have 180 days to do it , and they ’re countenance to keep some of the info classified . fortuitously , there ’s plenty of other UFO - related material to peruse while you wait .
As SYFY WIREreports , an on-line database calledThe Black Vaultrecently post the CIA ’s entire compendium of UFO documents online — free to download by anyone with an internet connection and a passion for unsolved alienmysteries . Though the CIA has been declassify capacity little by little since the 1980s , it has n’t always been so well-fixed to get at . The Black Vault founding father John Greenewald Jr. pass age filing FOIA ( Freedom of Information Act ) requests to loosen the way ’s grip .
“ Around 20 years ago , I had fought for long time to get additionalUFOrecords released from the CIA , ” hetoldVICE ’s Motherboard . “ It was like pulling teeth ! I went around and around with them to seek and do so , eventually achieve it . I received a large box seat , of a couple thousand pages , and I had to glance over them in one page at a clip . ”
Eventually , the CIA dumped all of itsdeclassifieddocuments onto a CD - ROM , which Greenewald buy last year . Not only did he upload the CD - ROM ’s original content ( a combination of TIFF image and plain text files ) onto The Black Vault , but he also converted the documents into searchable PDFs . You candownloadthem all in one zip single file , or you may spread out each PDF individually in your web internet browser .
Poring over the files will certainly take sentence , but there ’s no famine of secrets to unlock within the collection . In aletterfrom 1976 , for example , a governing functionary gives advice on how to deal with a peculiar token that someone hand - deliver to his office . Details about the point and the advice are redacted — but Greenewald is work on dumbfound answers .
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