The Black Vault was mysteriously wiped just a day after the US President ordered the disclosure of government alien files. Hundreds of gigabytes of data vanished, including information on top-secret CIA projects and the JFK assassination.
A huge digital library of declassified UFO files was mysteriously wiped clean just one day after Donald Trump ordered the release of extraterrestrial secrets.
The Black Vault, an online archive of government documents, saw its main server systematically emptied on Friday. Hundreds of gigabytes of data vanished, including information on top-secret CIA projects and the JFK assassination.
The timing has raised concerns, coming shortly after President Trump told US agencies to spill the beans on details they hold relating to aliens and UFOs.
The site’s founder, ufologist John Greenewald Jr, revealed the news online. He explained that file permissions and ownership logs were altered without warning before the files were junked.
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The Black Vault is a holy grail for conspiracy theorists, housing 80 years of hidden history. Greenewald has spent 30 years collating the archive, which includes claims of top-secret recovery missions of crashed alien craft and CIA directives dating back to the 1940s.
Speaking about the wipeout, Greenewald admitted his hosting provider was baffled. While he officially labelled the incident “oddly timed server maintenance,” he refused to rule out a more sinister explanation.
Posting on X, he said: “The main web hosting provider for that server (I run 4) had no idea what happened, and on their side, they said it was a deletion, not corruption.
“In my honest opinion, I feel it was a very oddly timed server maintenance done by the hosting provider, that went awry.
“They didn’t catch it, and when I did, they didn’t take blame and there was no way to fully prove what happened, and by whom. Could I be wrong? Yes. Could it have been foul play? I can’t rule it out.”
The glitch follows Trump’s historic mandate last week. The US President said he will direct all agencies – including the defence department – to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” all government documents on extraterrestrial life.
Trump sprung into action after former president Barack Obama declared “aliens are real” in a recent podcast interview. While Obama later clarified he hadn’t seen any evidence of their existence, Trump accused him of revealing classified information.
Despite the data wipe, Greenewald had an ace up his sleeve. He confirmed that all 3.8 million files were safely backed up in multiple secure locations and the site was restored shortly after.
The researcher said: “It is a stark reminder to us all, me included. Keep backups. Keep them in multiple places. And never be intimidated by anything that comes our way, no matter what we expect may have happened.”
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