The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released thousands of documents on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) this week, claiming they are all the CIA’s UFO records.
The Guardian reports that the documents are now housed in their entirety in the Black Vault, an online database of declassified government documents. The creator, John Greenewald Jr., previously purchased a CD-Rom containing UFO documents from the CIA, which included about 2,700 pages of documents.
The CIA claims those are all the files the agency has on UFOs, but Greenewald notes on his Web site that “it may not be possible to fully verify that claim.
Some of the reports include a mysterious explosion in a Russian town and a first-hand account of a strange sighting of a flying object near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Those are the kinds of things you might only read in science fiction, not official government documents.
But some of the documents are difficult to decipher and their actual purpose is unknown. Grimwald told Vice Media’s technology website Motherboard that the CIA uses a very “outdated” file format for its archives, making it very difficult to analyze that data.
The old file format makes it very difficult to read and use the documents for any research purposes,” Greenwald told Motherboard.
The timing of the massive release of the files appears to come at a time when concerns about UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) have raised concerns among members of the U.S. Congress.
The spending bill passed by Congress late last December, including the $900 billion Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Economic Revitalization Program, directs the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to report on unidentified aerial phenomena within six months.
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee directed that intelligence and defense units should specifically account for any “links to hostile foreign governments” and “threats posed to U.S. military assets and facilities” in their reports, indicating that members of Congress are skeptical that any hostile nation may be behind such bizarre UFO sightings.
In an interview with a Miami news site, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said lawmakers are more concerned about seeing technological advances from U.S. adversaries than signs of extraterrestrial life.
He said, “Frankly, if it is true that something is coming from outer space, it’s probably better than the fact that it’s some technological advancement from the Chinese Communist Party, Russia or some other adversary.
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