{"id":51,"date":"2021-04-15T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-04-30T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:48:22","slug":"you-can-now-download-the-entirety-of-the-cias-ufo-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/2021\/04\/15\/you-can-now-download-the-entirety-of-the-cias-ufo-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now download the entirety of the CIA\u2019s UFO documents"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Vintage

Credit: Megan Hullander.<\/p><\/div>\n

We face dark days that have left us wasting away in a ruin of our own making. Luckily, while you have been busy selfishly devoting your time to developing opinions about the virus that has plagued <\/span>your<\/span><\/i> species and the climate crisis on <\/span>your<\/span><\/i> planet, John Greenwald Jr. thought to look up.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Technically speaking, he has been looking up since the \u201880s. Greenwald is the founder of <\/span>the Black Vault<\/span><\/a>, the internet\u2019s central source for declassified documents. His most recent acquisition is <\/span>2,780 pages<\/span><\/a> of UFO-related documents. And you, despite your lack of contribution to the decades it took to uncover them, have access to download them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAround 20 years ago, I had fought for years to get additional UFO records released from the CIA,\u201d Greenwald <\/span>told Vice<\/span><\/a>. \u201cIt was like pulling teeth! I went around and around with them to try and do so, finally achieving it. I received a large box, of a couple of thousand pages, and I had to scan them in one page at a time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Their release follows a COVID-19 relief bill that included an <\/span>ultimatum<\/span><\/a> of sorts: the Pentagon had six months to release all of its information pertaining to UFOs. The collection is supposedly the entirety of the CIA\u2019s documents on this matter, but their swiftness leaves room for speculation. Greenwald is <\/span>skeptical<\/span><\/a> as there is no way to verify that claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The information itself is incredibly difficult to navigate. The CIA might be grossly outdated in technology, but that seems implausible not just because of the inherent purpose of the organization, but also because of their very savvy <\/span>techno rebrand<\/span><\/a> from earlier this year. More likely, it seems, there is something in those documents they don\u2019t want us to find.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, the breads you have been baking and the vlogs that even your mom doesn\u2019t watch can wait. The information, however clunky it may be, is there, and you have the time to use it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Black Vault releases hundreds of declassified PDFs dating back to the \u201980s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}