It detailed multiple aircraft getting essentially turned off by an unidentified flying object. This was not a document I claim to be the first to discover, but when I read about it, I couldn't believe something like it could be true. Yet The Black Vault would not exist as it does today were it not for a four-page UFO document colloquially called the "1976 Iran Incident" that I first accessed on August 22, 1996. The result is a website I created called The Black Vault, which holds more than 3 million pages of information my work has stretched over nearly 26 years. But at the same time, I realized I wanted to build something online that people could use to see the same information themselves, and at no charge. I was 15, and thought perhaps I could get some answers, even though I knew there would be some level of obfuscation.Īs I fought for previously classified records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), my hope was to find some truth about what, if anything, the government knew about UFOS. After seeing all sorts of stories in the news, I thought I would seek out government and military documents. I first became interested in the topic of UFOs back when I was a teenager.
But it sure was exciting to finally see such an important issue wind up on the calendar of U.S. I knew there were rumors that it may one day happen, but I had thought we were another year out from that, given current world events and the political climate.
The first hearing of its kind in 50 years, on May 17 the House Intelligence Committee's subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation will discuss unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), or UFOs to the rest of us. Congress hearing on UFOs the day the news of it broke in early May 2022.