UFO Files

This is quite possibly the largest collection of publicly accessible UFO documents in the world, drawing from as many sources and countries as possible. See below for a list of declassified UFO materials that haven't been tracked down yet. If you have copies of or know of any other files that should be included, please contact me.

This page includes the 10,000 Project Blue Book reports which were censored by a copyright claim from Ancestry.com subsidiary Fold3 after they were posted on The Black Vault (which I highly recommend visiting for its wealth of material). As Mr. Greenewald explained, their claim is ludicrous. "Ancestry.com, and their subsidiary Fold3, has laid down a claim to copyright on the Project Blue Book material – which has long been labeled as “public domain” by the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). Ancestry.com is claiming ownership to the digital version of this material – despite me having records that Fold3 doesn’t even have in their archive and I received under the FOIA starting back in 1996. They simply claimed it was 100% theirs and I was forced to remove it." (See below for the full statement)

Unfortunately, while Mr. Greenewald was completely in the right to post the public domain documents, the cost of litigating a lawsuit would have been enormous and for the sake of his family, he was forced to comply with the takedown request. I was unable to retrieve a copy of the cache from him, but after some digging I managed to find a copy. It and the other files have been uploaded to Archive.org and properly marked as being in the public domain. While the Project Blue Book reports have been uploaded individually, they have also been uploaded as a single dataset for easy retrieval and archiving. It's unlikely that Fold3 would try to threaten me with a lawsuit (though I invite them to try and be laughed out of court), or that the Internet Archive would cave and remove the public domain material, but in the event that this happens they will have to file takedown requests for thousands of items and deal with the certainty that people have retrieved and duplicated the complete set.

American files

Australian files

Australian UFO files

Brazilian files

Brazilian UFO files

British files

British UFO files

Canadian files

Danish files

Danish UFO files

French files

French UFO files

New Zealand files

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Panama file

Panama Canal Zone Radar Sighting – March 9-10, 1958

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Spanish file

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Missing files

Ecuador

2007 - The President of Ecuador acknowledges 44 reports, 22 Air Force 11 Army and 11 Navy, and 242 videos of UFOs obtained in the country.

Norway

1987 - The Norwegian Government sends 1400 pages of documents on so-called ghost rockets to the National Archives of the country.

Portugal

1990 - 3 UFO reports totaling 190 pages from Air Force Portugal are made available for CNIFO group re: cases in September 4, 1957, June 17, 1977 and November 2, 1982.

Sweden

1968 - Some files to the Swedish Air Force were made available to the researcher K. Like Rehn.
1975 - New documents are made available to the Swedish one UFO group (AFU).
May 10, 2009 - The Government of Sweden declassified reports of 18,000 cases registered in the country.

Switzerland

1994 - 18 reports of the Air Force, totaling 28 pages, are made available.

Uruguay

1979 - A joint committee between civil and military research at official level UFO cases was formed, creating over 1,000 reports, called Comisión Receptadora and researcher of UFO Denuncias (Cridovni). Acknowledged in 1982.
2009 - The Air Force reports 40 unexplained events.

The Black Vault's Response to Fold3's Censorship

January 29th, 2015 – It is with great frustration to announce, that Ancestry.com, and their subsidiary Fold3, has laid down a claim to copyright on the Project Blue Book material – which has long been labeled as “public domain” by the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). Ancestry.com is claiming ownership to the digital version of this material – despite me having records that Fold3 doesn’t even have in their archive and I received under the FOIA starting back in 1996. They simply claimed it was 100% theirs and I was forced to remove it.

Because of my attempt with properly crediting Fold3 with a DIRECT LINK to their site as partial credit for some of the material, they used that show of proper credit by me to issue a copyright claim under the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (DCMA). Anyone who knows anything about the law can attest; you are “guilty until proven innocent” so this was the beginning of the end. I never hid from Fold3 as a source, and even brought them up in some media interviews I did take part in, which were all cut out. No one cared about that part of the story – this new archive was what they wanted to report on because it was simple, straight forward, easy and free. And people loved it.

Based on an evidence-less claim I was forced to remove the entire site. That’s right, there was ZERO evidence submitted to my web hosting provider of ownership or copyright or license, but rather, they simply placed the accusation which is all it takes. In good faith, I took the site down in hopes a compromise could be reached. They already had credit given on the front page of the site for some of the material, and that link alone resulted in a 12%+ increase in their entire statistics since they posted records in 2007, and my link multiplied their weekly hits by 10x, yes ten times, in only 5 days (statistics are posted on their page, so I am not guessing on those statistics but rather took notes).

I stated there was much more information here than is cited to Fold3, but they didn’t care. I offered giving them a full 100% “share of voice” banner ad to advertise Fold3 (in addition to the link already driving them traffic), or to sell ads with no profit share to me, and they didn’t care. I asked if they would work with me on any capacity, because CLEARLY interest was being generated by my audience (and obviously not by theirs) but they didn’t care.

In the end – they offered I become a member of their affiliate program – and offer a link to them in exchange for a portion of sales generated. ie: You have to sign up with them, pay a membership, and they give me a percentage. I quickly declined.

This is public record material, and it should remain so. To lay ‘exclusive’ claim to it in the digital world, when both sites (my site and theirs) offer it for free – is ludicrous and a waste of time and money for everyone.

But at the end of the day, I am proud to have brought attention to information that although has been available for quite some time – the public at large never knew it existed. I will let Google Trends prove my point. Here is the popularity of Project Blue Book, since 2005, and a graph relating to people searching for information on it.

See that spike? Yes, The Black Vault did that… and I am proud to be the one who caused such an uproar of interest by the public and the media (despite some erroneous facts in the reporting).

Did some media outlets misreport? Yes, and if this page was still up, there was a message on the front page setting the record straight.

But, call it corporate greed, a legal loophole, or a grey area in the copyright law, all of that is gone in the name of getting your personal information, and your credit card, by a corporation that has a wallet much thicker than mine. I’ll let you decide what the right label is to put on this entire mess.

Does all of this upset you? Me too! And I invite you to express your thoughts to Ancestry.com, Fold3, and anyone else you’d like to express your disappointment:

Fold3
355 South 520 West
Suite 250
Lindon, UT 84042
Ph 1-800-613-0181
support@fold3.com

Ancestry Inc. Corporate Headquarters
360 West 4800 North
Provo, UT 84604
Ph 801-705-7000
Fx 801-705-7001
support@ancestry.com

In 18+ years, I’ve never seen anything like this, and it is a sad day for the world of public domain, public information, public record and the idea of “Freedom of Information”.

I have vowed from day 1, never to fall into the pit of desire of placing a price tag on PUBLIC information. It’s a shame I am very much alone in that belief.

Sincerely,
John Greenewald, Jr.
The Black Vault
http://www.theblackvault.com

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Why aren't the Majestic files listed, or anything from the Disclosure Project?

There are more than enough problems with the "Majestic 12" documents to conclude that they are fake. The Disclosure Project's briefing document is not an official document but rather a collection of statements from many individuals. This and some very serious problems with some of Greer's claims and behavior leaves with me serious doubts about the fact checking involved in the briefing document.