A leading researcher into government secrets says he may have found the “jackpot” of documents on potential extraterrestrial encounters.
John Greenewald Jr., who operates The Black Vault, a website dedicated to revealing declassified government documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, said he asked the Barack Obama Presidential Library for anything it has on UFOs and related phenomena. What he got back left him “absolutely floored”:
Unfortunately, Greenewald won’t get to see any of those documents and electronic files anytime soon. In a followup tweet, he wrote that the library won’t let him view any documents in person and estimated it would take 16 years to fulfill his FOIA request.
“It took the wind right out of my sails of excitement,” he wrote on Twitter, and called on lawmakers to help expedite the request.
Greenewald is the author of several books, including Inside The Black Vault: The Government’s UFO Secrets Revealed, which reportedly involved collecting some 8,000 FOIA requests.
The revelation comes amid an unprecedented series of disclosures about UFOs, or as the federal government now prefers to call them, UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena).
Several videos leaked in 2017 to The New York Times and The Washington Post showed encounters with fast-moving objects, including one nicknamed “Tic Tac” because of its resemblance to the candies. Unlike the candies, this object ― still unknown, at least publicly ― plunged from 60,000 feet to just 50 feet in a matter of seconds:
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