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The Black Vault's archive wiped hours after Trump's UFO files pledge

By T.K. Randall
February 24, 2026 · Comment icon 18 comments
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The site, which offers a huge collection of declassified government documents, saw its archive disappear overnight.
Founded and maintained by researcher John Greenewald Jr., The Black Vault has - since 1996 - offered up an enormous archive of declassified files on everything from UFOs and aliens to secretive CIA mind control and remote viewing experiments.

On the night of February 20th, however, something went very wrong.

Mere hours after President Trump had announced that he would be ordering agency heads to release all their files on the UFO phenomenon, the entire archive held at the Black Vault disappeared.
According to Greenewald Jr., the issue wasn't hardware failure or file corruption - someone had seemingly logged into the server and deleted the files deliberately.

Exactly how someone had achieved this remains unclear - an investigation by the hosting provider seemed to show that the directory permissions had mysteriously changed.

On the plus side, Greenewald Jr. had kept a secure backup of everything that was deleted and was able to restore the files to the server shortly afterward, ensuring very little downtime.

How this happened in the first place, however, remains a mystery that has yet to be solved.

Source: wionews.com | Comments (18)




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Comment icon #9 Posted by EBE Hybrid 2 months ago
I don't imagine that the government messed around with the server, as the collection of files are all available publicly, some following freedom of information act requests. The Black Vault is a public records collection, although it does represent a lot of effort to gather all of that information. I'd say the temporary loss of the files was due to mischievous or malicious hacking following your post, thanks for the information regarding the vulnerabilities, interesting stuff 
Comment icon #10 Posted by Razman 2 months ago
Most I can say is if it did happen , it probably wasn’t an accident. 
Comment icon #11 Posted by random-turd 2 months ago
There might be a nefarious reason for the deletion but the Black Vault is all public information, obtained through the FOIA. Any foreign government would've scraped every scrap of info from there yonks ago.
Comment icon #12 Posted by the13bats 2 months ago
Like I said somewhere else the fellow who started black vault in the early days seemed to really be into solving mysterious experiences however as time passed the site got so much like a super market tabloid likely only agents K and J went there, it really was a true believers rubbish heap, so I wonder would a mysterious event on the site like this generate more interest and more $$$? You bet!
Comment icon #13 Posted by Grim Reaper 6 2 months ago
Hey turd welcome to the forum!
Comment icon #14 Posted by Dejarma 2 months ago
yep..Greenewald has spent three decades organizing information on hidden programs, etc., as mentioned in the article, but in that time he came up with absolutely fek all as far as something solid is concerned!?
Comment icon #15 Posted by Trelane 2 months ago
Why don't they just MacKinnon for al the stuff he allegedly has lol
Comment icon #16 Posted by Rolci 2 months ago
Those servers run on Linux. They have backdoors built in. How is this even a mystery??? And obviously they knew Greenewald has backups, the point wasn't "deleting" anything. The point was exactly to show they have the backdoors. Trump has a lot to lose. Which makes his an interesting move. Wonder who instructed him and what assurances they gave. Unless he's just another cog in the controlled disclosure machinery, which I did not think he was, otherwise he wouldn't have made a fool of himself with the drone comments. So why the sudden change of heart? Don't tell me he figured out what the drone... [More]
Comment icon #17 Posted by pallidin 2 months ago
Agreed. Though coincidental in subject, its likely unrelated to any government deletion for the reasons you said. Then again, some wish the government would delete itself ?
Comment icon #18 Posted by pallidin 2 months ago
Don't rock a G-man's boat (to talk openly about goverment absurdities), they say, or you might get in trouble if you take it too far! Now, we truly need government, don't get me wrong. The people as a whole are wise, but the individual is stupid and dangerous.  Well, I don't care. At my age I don't have very much time left on this rock we call Earth, so bring it on, Mr. G-man, I need the excitement to straighten your butt out, or at least help draw attention in some small way. What could anyone do to me that Mother Nature isn't planning on doing to me anyway, and probably sooner!!! ? I'm spea... [More]


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