The Document Trail
39 storiesFOIA releases, the Federal Register, court filings, primary paper.
The Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS" or "Department") is proposing to revise the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs using Urine (UrMG), published in the Federal Register on October 12, 2023).
The Defense Intelligence Agency's latest "Challenges to Security in Space" report included a declassified satellite photo of China's Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane, which has released at least nine mysterious payloads into low Earth orbit…
Recently Obtained FOIA Records Reveal AARO Quietly Built UAP Partnership With Uruguay USA Herald
Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s.
Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.
Here are FBI Files of world leaders and politicians from around the globe. Declassified World Leaders FBI Files Adulyadej, Bhumibol – [8 Pages, 1.6MB] – Bhumibol Adulyadej (5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents.
Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Records released by the National Security Agency to The Black Vault in September 2025, and now being published online by The Black Vault, provide additional details about a 1992 Pentagon effort to examine Cold War reconnaissance losses and determine…
A newly obtained Central Intelligence Agency release provides a detailed look at the material prepared inside the U.S. government for the public rollout following the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including internal talking points, an…
The 1980 presidential campaign between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan became the subject of a political controversy after it was revealed that Reagan’s campaign had obtained confidential materials prepared…
A new CIA release obtained by The Black Vault has restored significant portions of an August 2001 Inspector General review of the agency’s Counterterrorist Center, adding details that had remained classified when the report was publicly released…
The orbital platform - which was known as USA 32 - broke into pieces last month and nobody seems to know why. Originally launched in 1988, USA 32 (als...
A newly completed Freedom of Information Act release from the U.S. Navy provides hundreds of pages of detailed technical, cost and mission analysis from a late-1970s effort to determine what the next generation of naval vehicles might look like,…
Background Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption)—conversion of messages from a comprehensible form into an incomprehensible one and back again at the other end, rendering it…
A newly released collection of records from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office provides a substantially more detailed look at the government-sponsored UAP research workshop held outside Washington, D.C., in August 2025, including a…
The Department of the Navy has released more than 1,300 pages of emails and related records involving former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W.
Newly released Central Intelligence Agency records provide the most complete look yet at two separate attempts by Jeffrey Epstein, which were more than a decade apart, to determine what information the CIA maintained about him.
A Freedom of Information Act request seeking National Security Agency records mentioning or cross-referencing QAnon has produced a limited set of material: an internal employee discussion in which QAnon was invoked casually as a joke, records…
A mathematical study published inside the National Security Agency six decades ago has been released through the Freedom of Information Act, more than nine years after The Black Vault requested it.
A collection of eight National Security Agency technology forecasting studies, spanning topics from privacy and anonymity to brain-network interfaces, advanced antennas and terahertz electronics, has been released through the Freedom of Information…
The National Security Agency has upheld its refusal to confirm or deny whether it possesses intelligence records concerning the alleged “Immaculate Constellation” program, rejecting a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by The Black Vault.
On the night of September 11, 2012, armed attackers assaulted U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, beginning at the State Department’s Special Mission compound and continuing into the early hours of September 12 at a nearby CIA annex.
PROMIS has accumulated decades of controversy, competing claims and, at times, confusion over what the name itself actually refers to. The records released by the National Security Agency provide an important distinction.
PROMIS has accumulated decades of controversy, competing claims and, at times, confusion over what the name itself actually refers to. The records released by the National Security Agency provide an important distinction.
More than nine years after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was submitted to the National Security Agency, the agency has released a heavily redacted copy of a 1972 NSA Technical Journal article titled “Maybe It’s Related to the Phase of…
The Department of War announced September 14, 2026, that it has issued a targeted legal waiver allowing current and former military personnel, civilian employees and contractors to provide protected information concerning Unidentified Anomalous…
The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday released 71 declassified President’s Daily Brief documents related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, opening a new collection of intelligence assessments that documented what the U.S.
Unverified — single-witness, self-published, or from an outlet the registry does not recognise. Not corroborated.
Pentagon declassifies Skinwalker Ranch files revealing DNA tests on creature Bankingnews
Declassified US Defence Files Reveal Chilling Encounters With Alleged Skinwalkers at a Utah Ranch International Business Times UK
Pentagon just released the 7th batch of declassified UFO files Starlust.org
Pentagon unveils UAP CLOAKING TECHNOLOGY! More UAP studies declassified! YouTube
Pentagon Releases 162 Declassified UFO Files Spanning 1942 to 2025 The SOFX Report
The sixth wave of declassified documents relating to UAP Root-Nation.com
Pentagon releases sixth batch of declassified UFO files Latest news from Azerbaijan
Pentagon releases sixth batch of declassified UFO files including video of swarm of objects over Utah in 1952 LiveNOW from FOX
Pentagon releases declassified UFO files from various federal agencies abcnews.com
The Pentagon has now released five batches of UAP files since May 2026 as part of a rolling declassification effort — and despite investigating hundreds of reports, its own UAP office says it has found no verifiable evidence that a single one…
Pentagon Releases Fifth Tranche of Declassified UAP Files MeriTalk