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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 13:51:47 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jan 15, 2015 14:04:55 GMT -6
John Greeewald, Jr. of the Black Vault has added the entire Project Blue Book files released under the Freedom of Information Act to his huge government files catalog. ( ....and yes, there is considerable redacting in those files!)
"The Black Vault is an online community comprised of people from around the globe. There is also an online internet database of officially declassified U.S. Government documents stretching more than 600,000 pages. John Greenewald, Jr., the creator of The Black Vault, began researching a vast array of topics by utilizing the Freedom of Information Act.
Since the beginning, it has now morphed into the site you see today... a fully operational social networking site, with hundreds of thousands of documents, forum posts, members, and so many features.
The idea is to create the largest Paranormal and Government Conspiracy research center in the world.
The document archive here makes it the largest archive of its kind anywhere in the world, outside of the U.S. Government itself."
www.theblackvault.com/index.php
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Post by lois on Jan 21, 2015 21:14:55 GMT -6
First of all there is all this talk about our government releasing files. All they will release is what we already know. As far as the Air Force. I have own a copy of blue book for thirty years. Nothing in there so important as far as I remember when I last read it. What I'm getting at is these files mention just another or the same as the Blue book?? Oh they keep track and have always done so. www.indystar.com/story/tech/2015/01/19/air-force-ufo-files/21985651/
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Post by auntym on Jan 22, 2015 13:53:12 GMT -6
www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1212545-what-skimming-the-declassified-us-govnt-ufo-files-tells-you/ What Skimming the Declassified US Govn’t UFO Files Tells YouBy Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times / twitter.com/TaraMacIsaac January 21, 2015 Excerpts from files declassified by the U.S. government. (NSA) Background: A file photo of an alleged unidentified flying object over Lake Cote, Costa Rica, Sept. 1971, not directly related to the U.S. government files. (Instituto Geografico Nacional de Costa Rica) The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In "Beyond Science" Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide. Top secret files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were declassified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as a result of a 1980 civil action suit brought against the agency by a group named Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy. Epoch Times has gone through the communications intelligence reports to collect some interesting tidbits. Much of the text is heavily redacted, making it hard to glean much information. An example of a heavily redacted report. (NSA) In many instances, the acronym “UFO” is almost automatically followed by the parenthetical statement “probably balloons.” The National Weather Service does release weather balloons from 102 sites throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific daily, so there are quite a few floating around out there. They can also expand to about 35 feet in diameter. Some of the reported UFO sightings in the documents, however, are not attributed to weather balloons and do not at all fit the characteristics. It is unclear exactly who sighted the UFOs in each case, as names are redacted. Likewise, the context is often unclear due to redaction. Here’s a look at some of the highlights to give you an idea of what the government has officially recorded about UFOs. Each quotation is taken from a separate report. Some of the reported UFO sightings in the documents, however, are not attributed to weather balloons and do not at all fit the characteristics. “… took place six months ago in the [redacted] region, and the increase in flying saucer activity, which he explained as having a connection with the plan.” CONTINUE READING: www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1212545-what-skimming-the-declassified-us-govnt-ufo-files-tells-you/
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Post by auntym on Jan 22, 2015 14:40:07 GMT -6
Nick Pope @nickpopemod Nick Pope's official take on the Air Force UFO files media story: "This is a good day for open government and freedom of information".
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Post by auntym on Jan 22, 2015 14:42:44 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jan 22, 2015 14:53:11 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/air-force-ufo-files-media-misinforms.html Thursday, January 22, 2015 Air Force UFO Files: Media Misinforms; Greenewald Sets Record Straight By John Greenewald The UFO Chronicles 1-22-15 First off, I never, EVER, made it appear these documents were newly declassified. The media created that, and many outlets copied each other. Many of the stories you see, I was never even interviewed for, yet I am quoted extensively. Second, I went out of my way to say these documents have been available, even in some places online, during the course of the interviews I did do. But, I converted them to a comprehensive and user friendly database, that quite simply was a format that was not available anywhere else and this was the first time the public could get unrestricted access to them. IE: it was free, required no registration, was searchable, and you could download them all with a few clicks in PDF format. Third, I gave credit to the investigator who compiled the 130,000 jpeg images, which he then started circulating for someone to figure out how to convert them to a better format about 8 months ago. For a couple months, no one did anything with them (but circulated a torrent file), and although I offered to help store the files on the web, I felt I wasn’t smart enough to convert them to something that was web-friendly. After about 3 months, and I noticed no one cared or was able to take the project to the next level, with the full knowledge of the one who compiled the data, I built the entire database. Converted 130,000 jpeg images (which are just about as useless as microfilm, but at least they were digitized) to a user friendly format. Here was the full process • I created the scripts to convert the 130,000 jpegs into more than 10,000 .pdfs • I then created acrobat action scripts to OCR (text recognition) 10,000 pdfs and at the same time, created filters to pass the images through to make them more readable to the human eye then their existing format • I then programmed the entire site in HTML 5, built the indexes broken down by decade, and uploaded the 220GB of material to my server • I then created a massive search engine that mined the 10,000 pdfs and created a searchable index which is what you see today The original compiler wanted no credit but to that of a nickname which is what I’ve given out and posted on my page as the top, #1, credit. There have been a select FEW that are going around claiming quite a bit, and attacking me personally. What the media says, or reports on, is out of my control but I have done everything to the best of my ability to circulate the proper information, nothing but the facts, and give credit to where credit is due. At the end of the day, the media and the hundreds of thousands of people a day who are now hitting the archive obviously were not aware these records were available, so even though some of the news stories became factually incorrect, who cares? Regardless of that fact we can easily set them straight on, the mass media attention, much of which is very good press, is all fantastic for this field. Those that are beating a dead horse, are simply wasting time. PROJECT BLUE BOOK: projectbluebook.theblackvault.com/www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/air-force-ufo-files-media-misinforms.htmlkevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/01/project-blue-book-files-and-john.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Post by auntym on Jan 26, 2015 13:34:17 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15113/at-least-nobody-got-killed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterAt least nobody got killedBy Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune Saturday, January 24, 2015 Don’t even waste your time reading this one today, because it’s so inside baseball, so utterly constipated and confounding I want to set my head on fire and swan-dive into a pond of gasoline. Yeah, that’s right, it’s the corporate media’s latest orgy of ineptitude over UFOs — AGAIN — so you guys can just step back and move right along while I ingest an emetic and hurl. Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. At ease. Deep breath, visualize world peace. Context first. Remember the context. Ahem. OK: In 1970, shortly after shutting down Project Blue Book, the Air Force moved its UFO files to Maxwell AFB in Huntsville, AlThe files were shipped from Maxwell to the National Archives and Records Administration in 1975 and compressed into 94 spools of microfilm. "A lot of people wanted to see them," says Berliner. "They were really popular.” So, in 1976, reservists Xeroxed the stuff for transfer into public-release microfilm. But with a hitch. A USAF review board ordered the worker bees to black out eyewitnesses' names. “They even censored the names of people mentioned in the newspaper accounts,” says Berliner. “They cited privacy reasons, but that didn’t make much sense to me, considering how the names had been available for so long. What it meant was, if you were a researcher, you couldn’t go back and reinvestigate the cases.” Nevertheless, even though Berliner — and who knows how many others — had already recorded eyewitness names before the clampdown, FUFOR decided to purchase the entire catalogue of censored Blue Book microfilm. And that was pretty much that, until 1998, when one of Berliner’s associates who was visiting NARA called to say he was actually looking at the raw unedited microfilm records, complete with unredacted names. “I said are you sure? He said yeah, they’re on the original 16 millimeter film. So I told him to use our credit card and order a complete set.” FUFOR sprang for about $3,000. “But we got the original version with all the names.” So much for the embargo.. In 2007, a history website digitized the Archives’ censored version of Blue Book and placed them online. It wasn't newsy enough to rate MSM coverage back then. A year or so ago, just for grins, Berliner called the Archives and asked if he could see the original uncensored 16 millimeter files, “and they said ‘Absolutely not.’ I said ‘Well, would you like a copy? I’ve got one.’ They didn’t think that was very funny.” So try to imagine the bewilderment, in extremely small hardcore circles, over the MSM clusterf*#! when the Open Minds website announced on Jan. 12 how those Blue Book files — the ones with the censored names, which have been languishing in the public domain online for nearly eight years — were now available in John Greenewald’s Black Vault database without charge. Greenewald, a Los Angeles rez, has been downloading FOIA-acquired government documents — on UFOs and other federal matters — onto his site since he was a teenager in the Nineties. What happened a week after Open Minds produced its piece caught Greenwald off guard, as he states in an email to De Void: “I never claimed this is the first time they hit the web, but rather, I got them compiled then just converted them to a much easier to use format. Crazy how the media works sometimes.” Crazy? That’s being charitable.a. And just to settle on definitions, these weren’t actually formal studies. As Lt. Col. Hector Quintanilla, the Blue Book director, stated in 1968, “Our primary responsibility is to collect data and then check the subjective material to see what the stimulus might be . . . We're not an investigative force. . . . We collect data. It's a misnomer to think we investigate.” Furthermore: These files were never secret; you had to schedule an appointment, but you could read them yourself. Among the first to comb through the 100,000-plus hard-copy documents was Fund for UFO Research founder Don Berliner. In 1974 or thereabouts, Berliner spent a week at Maxwell, writing down names of the eyewitnesses for potential followup material. Some of those names were found only in newspaper articles; Blue Book was big on collecting and saving clippings. CONTINUE READING: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15113/at-least-nobody-got-killed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/corporate-medias-latest-orgy-of.html
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Post by swamprat on Jan 30, 2015 9:53:51 GMT -6
Project Blue Book Files Forcibly Removed From The Black VaultThe good people at The Black Vault just got royally screwed. They are being forced to remove all the Project Blue Book files. This is a tragedy for our freedom both physically and digitally.
The Black Vault makes it easy to search nearly 130,000 pages of declassified documents from Project Blue Book, the U.S. government’s investigation of UFOs from the 1940s through the 1960s. Covering everything from sightings to possible evidence of alien contact on Earth, Project Blue Book features some amazing stories and maybe not all the answers, Black Vault’s John Greenewald said.
Project Blue Book started as an investigation in 1952 by the U.S. Air Force to analyze UFO sightings and activity. Thousands of reports were collected and the investigation concluded there was no evidence of UFOs visiting Earth with many of the sightings linked to weather balloons, natural phenomena or misidentified aircraft. Project Blue Book was shut down in 1969 and the information is available to the public via Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Black Vault’s Statement on the Project Blue Book Files 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.
www.paranormics.com/project-blue-book-files-forcibly-removed-from-the-black-vault/
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Post by auntym on Jan 30, 2015 15:51:30 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/new-web-site-of-air-force-ufo-files.html Friday, January 30, 2015 New Web-Site of Air Force UFO Files Shut Down—Black Vault Issues Statement by John Greenewald / The Black Vault 1-30-15 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. CONTINUE READING: www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/new-web-site-of-air-force-ufo-files.htmlTHE BLACK VAULT: projectbluebook.theblackvault.com/
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Post by lois on Jan 30, 2015 22:32:05 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/new-web-site-of-air-force-ufo-files.html Friday, January 30, 2015 New Web-Site of Air Force UFO Files Shut Down—Black Vault Issues Statement by John Greenewald / The Black Vault 1-30-15 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. CONTINUE READING: www.theufochronicles.com/2015/01/new-web-site-of-air-force-ufo-files.htmlTHE BLACK VAULT: projectbluebook.theblackvault.com/ Oh the ancestry.com they get into every thing. I use to be able to get to my ancestors on line. Now I can't . when I google i ancestors . com. says join them if you want to see more. How on earth did they get into the blue book . It is ashame.
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Post by auntym on Feb 7, 2015 15:00:21 GMT -6
www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/02/06/air-force-voluminous-ufo-files-illuminate-bygone-era-new-england/5ZDe8dsNhQunIt13jLwedI/story.html Nick Pope @nickpopemod It's always good to see the mainstream media do a serious and accurate article on UFOs. Kudos to The Boston Globe: *************************************************************************** UFO files shed light on a bygone era in New EnglandBy Sylvan LaneGlobe Correspondent February 06, 2015 Air Force files from a 1952 incident in which a Salem man captured photographs of four bright lights in the sky, which might have been the reflection of lamps in a window. WASHINGTON — James Louis Warsher and a friend were driving across the Anderson Memorial Bridge in Harvard Square when they noticed a dull gray elliptical vessel tinted with muted yellow light descending from the sky. It was around 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 9, 1964, and the two were among 11 Bostonians who reported UFO sightings that night. Air Force investigators said the object was just an advertising plane. They confirmed it by cross-checking the aircraft’s flight plan with civilian reports of when and where they saw UFO. But the Air Force’s official explanation — here you may cue the “X-Files’’ theme song — couldn’t answer one issue: When Warsher and his friend saw the UFO, it was flying within sight of the same plane the investigators purported it to be. This story is one of more than 12,000 chronicled by Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s UFO investigation program that ran from 1947 to 1969. The once-classified files spent most of the past 40 years as microfilm reels in the National Archives, but they have become more accessible to the general public in recent years through Fold3, a commercial database of government and military documents. CONTINUE READING: www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/02/06/air-force-voluminous-ufo-files-illuminate-bygone-era-new-england/5ZDe8dsNhQunIt13jLwedI/story.html
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 23:54:12 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Feb 14, 2015 14:20:32 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15172/and-the-loser-is/ And the loser is ...By Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Thursday, February 12, 2015 One of the most cringe-inducing utterances a reporter can hear from an editor usually starts like this: “Hey, can you drop what you’re doing and localize ...?” An earthquake in China. A hurricane in New Jersey. A monkey rampage in Timbuktu. A bath salts cannibal attack in Miami. Whatever. It happened again in a big way last month when the MSM stampede erroneously reported the USAF “top secret” caseload on UFOs had just been dumped onto the Internet. Only, this time, reporters didn’t have to shapeshift in order to manufacture a local angle; the local angle was as easy to find as scrolling through a single page and clicking onto a year-state link to any one of 12,618 UFO reports filed with the Air Force. And wow — did local media ever run with it. Texas, Utah, Georgia, Connecticut, Ohio, North Dakota — newspapers and TV stations across the country revisited backyard encounters, and some of the coverage was actually pretty decent. And, given the sheer volume of reports, those dusty old cases might continue to provide endless fodder for those slow-news day grinds, except for one thing: Easy access is off the table now. The prevailing system is so byzantine and cumbersome, it’s really not worth the effort unless you know exactly what you’re looking for. What good are public records if you have to work so hard to access the documents you want?/CREDIT: US Air Force A few weeks back, Black Vault website founder John Greenewald, who did such a terrific job in reformatting and indexing the Blue Book documents, announced he had to scrub the entire database on account of a cease-and-desist order from Ancestry.com. Ancestry is the parent company for Fold3.com, the historical records site that originally digitized the Air Force reports from the National Archives eight years ago. Although those documents are public record, Ancestry used its own cameras and resources to reproduce the images and therefore claims proprietary rights over the material on its site. “Our site clearly states that you have to ask for permission to use those images, and John Greenewald never asked for permission,” says Heather Erickson, Ancestry's head of global communications. “He just came in and used the images on Fold3.com. It’s unfortunate that he didn’t talk to us ahead of time.” Never mind that Greenewald credited Fold3 and posted a direct link to their site on his Black Vault. After being threatened with legal action, Greenewald yielded, but protested that his link to their page “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 ...).” Efforts to reach a compromise went nowhere. Which is a damn shame because Fold3’s presentation is so clearly inferior to Greenewald’s listings it's not even worth shedding harsh bitter tears. The Black Vault is the reason the newsies were able to identify and develop so many localizations. By contrast, Fold3’s challenging database makes browsing Blue Book a chore, if not a complete waste of time altogether. Memo to Fold3: Do the media and the public a service with a more efficient Blue Book design and you won’t need somebody else to drive your numbers up. Especially on slow news days. CONTINUE READING: devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15172/and-the-loser-is/
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