The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has decided to declassify more than three decades of UFO-related documents that are a realistic version of the science fiction film “The X-Files,” an expert said.
Fox News reported on Jan. 18 that Nick Pope, a former employee of the British Ministry of Defense and a UFO investigator, said there was something “fascinating” about the documents, which total more than 2,700 pages. But the strange way the documents were released and the difficulty of retrieving them will “fuel conspiracy theories.
“The UFO community finds it ironic that the release of declassified information by an agency is usually accompanied by disinformation to confuse the public. Recent revelations about the Pentagon’s AATIP program and the ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ task force suggest that looking for clues about UFOs in declassified CIA documents is going to the wrong agency.” Pope said in an e-mail to Fox News.
“Maybe these documents are what the government wants people to see, like a magician who does some brilliant moves with one hand to get attention while his other hand is doing something more important behind the scenes.” He said.
As previously reported by Fox News, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was established in 2007 at the behest of former Senator Harry Reid. The program reportedly ceased operations in 2012, but in 2017 The New York Times reported that the Defense Department was still investigating potential unidentified flying objects.
“John Greenwald Jr., who runs The Black Vault, has obtained many declassified documents through multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests over the past few decades, and these recently released CIA documents These recently released CIA documents have been posted on the Black Vault website.
Last year, Greenwald purchased CDs produced by the CIA. In a statement on his Web site, Greenwald said the CIA “claims that the documents on the CD are ‘all’ declassified documents,” but added that there is no way to verify the CIA’s claim. “The Black Vault website will continue its research to see if there are more documents in the CIA’s possession.
Among the documents released are a number of separate documents, including reports of numerous UFO sightings received by a government official in 1976.
Perhaps “coincidentally,” the so-called “X-Files,” a repository of UFO-related sighting reports, were released online early last year by the United Kingdom. The special UFO research unit of the British Royal Air Force, which operated for 50 years, was shut down in 2009 after concluding that none of the reports provided real evidence of a potential UFO threat.
Following the UK’s decision to publish reports of UFO sightings online, 61 percent of Americans surveyed said they wanted the U.S. government to do the same.
The nearly 2,700 pages of declassified documents were made public weeks after the New York Post reported that the latest New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Relief and Government Appropriations Act gave the Pentagon six months to disclose what they knew about UFOs.
Last August, the Pentagon announced the creation of a task force to “detect, analyze and classify” these unidentified aerial phenomena.
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