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The Black Vault (John Greenewald Jr.)

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🗄️ Database🇺🇸 USSince 1996🔗 Visit Website▶️ YouTube
Methodology
10/10
Transparency
10/10
Institutional
2/10
Peer Review
7/10
Track Record
10/10
Fact vs. Spec.
10/10
Self-Correction
9/10

The CRED-7 framework evaluates sources across seven criteria: Methodology (20%), Transparency (20%), Institutional Affiliation (15%), Peer Review (15%), Track Record (10%), Fact/Speculation (10%), and Self-Correction (10%).

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Description

Overview
The world's largest privately operated online archive of declassified U.S. government documents, founded in 1996 by then-15-year-old John Greenewald Jr. Over 3 million pages from 5,000+ FOIA requests. The gold standard for UAP document research.

Sources and Content
Documents from CIA (complete 2,780-page UFO collection), FBI (Vault UFO files), DoD (AATIP materials), NSA (CAUS documents), Air Force (Blue Book holdings with 129,491 declassified documents). All full-text searchable.

Media and Reach
Podcast 'The Black Vault Radio'. Book 'Inside The Black Vault' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Regularly cited in Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Wired. Approx. 300,000 monthly visitors, 10 TB download volume.

Strengths and Weaknesses
Incorruptible FOIA work spanning almost 30 years. Greenewald's persistence has uncovered more government documents than any other individual. However: one-man operation ('bus factor' risk), no analytical capacity of its own, exclusively US-focused.

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