Greenewald - Inside the black vault: the governments UFO secrets revealed

Inside the Black Vault

Inside the Black Vault

The Governments UFO Secrets Revealed

John Greenewald Jr.

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Preface

I t is not very often that a fifteen-year-old kid decides to take on the U.S. government, but that is exactly how my story begins. I was in high school when curiosity about the unknown first struck me. The UFO phenomenon was intriguing, it was unknown, and it sparked a fire within me that I could not explain.

Now, more than two decades later, the fascination I had as a kid has only deepened and strengthened as the years have gone on. This book is a culmination of my more than two-decade journey researching the UFO phenomenon, and my only source of evidence is the documentation that the U.S. government and military has given me directly.

Most books and websites on the topic of UFOs are largely speculative. The evidence presented in most places is controversial at best and, in many cases, unverifiable. At the age of fifteen, when I first began looking at the topic, this lack of tangible evidence drove me crazy. I wanted to change it and be different than the norm.

There are countless books and web pages about the UFO topic that you can read, and I am not trying to insinuate that they all lack a serious approach or viable pieces of evidence. But when I decided to write this book, I wanted to write it for those who wanted a serious and in-depth look into the UFO cover-up, using only official U.S. government documents as the narrative.

Although I sprinkle in my ideas and interpretations along the way, the facts in the form of declassified records are irrefutable. There are no leaked documents, no third-hand information, and nothing that I did not receive myself through the use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This official narrative tells an amazing tale of lies and deceit of the general public.

I have always felt since I began my research that declassified U.S. government documents are crucial pieces of evidence that pave the way to the UFO truthwhatever that may be.

In the past two decades, I have filed more than eight thousand FOIA requests to nearly every corner of the U.S. government and military. As a result, I have amassed more than two million pages on nearly every government secret you can think of.

This book is a commonsense approach to one of the most intriguing, fascinating, elusive, and exciting secrets that I have ever tackled: UFOs. I use only evidence that anyone can get their hands on as proof, and that is what surprises and intrigues most people who become aware of my work. Anyone in the world can obtain these same documentsyou just need to ask the U.S. government for them.

There are some who would rather shrug it off. Common reactions are Its all blacked out, and you cant learn anything or They lie, so why even bother? and so on. You name it, I have heard it as people try to dismiss what you are about to read. But that is simply because they have never looked at the actual evidence nor are they comfortable accepting it as real. Once they do, their reaction changes dramatically.

Since day one, my intention has been to rise above the misinformation out there and offer something different to people just like you. My target audience has been a combination of those who have a keen interest in the phenomenon but do not know where to start, along with those that have dedicated their lives to the field and want to see the real evidence to what the U.S. government is hiding. In other words, this book is for everyone across that gamut that has ever had an interest in UFOs from the newbie novice to the obsessed professional. I will even admit I wrote this book for the hard-core skeptics and the career debunkers. I feel this information is strong enough to stand up to the best criticism that can be thrown my way.

When you see the actual evidence outlined in the next couple hundred pagesI believe strongly you will realize that there is much more to the UFO phenomenon than the U.S. government will ever want you to believe. I chose not to include some of the recent revelations about the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program or AATIP in this manuscript. As of the writing of this book, the AATIP story is still unfolding, and there are many questions about this secret Pentagon UFO study touted by the media and a somewhat newly formed public benefit corporation known as To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. I feel without solid proof of this new project, and the true objectives of it, it would be disingenuous to speculate in this book which is based on solid documented fact; so I will save that for a future publication when more documents are released.

I hope the evidence in the next fifteen chapters will give you the starting point you need in your journey to uncover the truth. This book is my journey. I have invested more than twenty years and thousands upon thousands of hours into building an online database of my research, known as The Black Vault (www.theblackvault.com). I have taken the responses to every FOIA request I have filed and organized them into a massive online repository for government documents. The result is the largest privately run collection of declassified records on the Internetanywhere in the world.

The evidence here may not ultimately give you the smoking gun you are looking for on your journey, but I guarantee it will give you a box of bullets when you find it.

Let me show you...

Debunking the Roswell Explanation

W hen I was fifteen years old, my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were going out by the truckload. As fast as I could, I would send these requests seeking information on various topics to nearly every government agency I could find. My special focus and personal interest was the UFO phenomenon.

When I first began this journey toward the UFO Truthwhatever that ultimately may bethe X-Files TV show was in its third year on television. My late grandmother was the one who told me about it, and we began watching it on her kitchen table when I was just a young teenager.

On this show, along with quite a few other pop culture references, the Roswell incident was referenced quite often. Roswell was a household name, and although many did not research the topic firsthand, if you walked up to anyone on the streets, they know the gist of what happened.

Although versions of the event vary depending on the witness and researcher, the most popular goes like this: On or around June 14, 1947, farmer William Mack Brazel and his son discovered a UFO had crashed on their farm just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. On July 4, Brazel packed up his car with some of the debris that he found and, on July 7, drove it into town and delivered it to Sheriff George Wilcox.