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Black Vault: CIA Unexpectedly Releases ALL of its Documents on UFOs

Last Updated May 30, 2023 by . First Published in 2021.

Black Vault: CIA Unexpectedly Releases ALL of its Documents on UFOs

The CIA has released thousands of previously classified UFO case files for the public to view, a collection known as the Black Vault.

Black Vault: Thousands of documents from the CIA on unidentified flying objects were released this week in a document dump that the agency says includes all their records on UFOs.

The documents are currently available on the Black Vault Archive , an online archive of declassified government documents, after the site's founder John Greenewald Jr, purchased a CD-ROM the CIA had made with its UFO documents. About 2,700 pages were included in the collection, what the agency says are all the files it has on UFOs, but Greenewald notes on his website that "there may be no way to entirely verify that".

Some of the reports, including one about mysterious explosions 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.

Among the more unusual records are documents from the Stargate Project, which dealt with psychic powers and extrasensory perception. Those include records of testing on celebrity psychic Uri Geller in 1973 when he was already a well-established performer. Memos detail how Mr Geller was able to partly replicate pictures drawn in another room with varying - but sometimes precise - accuracy, leading the researchers to write that he "demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability convincingly and unambiguously".

One set of documents details results of psychic tests on Uri Geller, where he attempted to copy drawings made by researchers from within a sealed room
One set of documents details results of psychic tests on Uri Geller, where he attempted to copy drawings made by researchers from within a sealed room 

While much of the information has been technically publicly available since the mid-1990s, it has been very difficult to access. The records were only available on four physical computers located in the back of a library at the National Archives in Maryland, between 09:00 and 16:30 each day.

Head on over to the Black Vault Archive  to download the files.

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