Already, the Black Vault website contains several documents. John Greenwald Jr., who has taken over the site, says it contains everything the CIA has to say about UFOs.
The term "Unidentified Flying Objects" is preferred by the US government for flying objects that experts cannot immediately identify or explain.
Many of them may be due to reflections of light or to errors in the pilot instruments. However, some of them are objects of investigation by the Pentagon.
Greenwald, who began investigating the US government's plans in 1996 when he was 15, said he would sue the CIA to release the files for decades. In fact, he claimed that for decades he has been fighting to get additional files held by the CIA. He finally succeeded.
"I received a large box, with hundreds of pages and I have to scan one at a time."
Greenwald posts the files on the Black Vault website. Between the pages there is a mysterious explosion in a small town in Russia. Residents claimed to have seen a "moving fiery ball", and speculated UFO. The military in the area concluded that it was an explosion due to a stock of ammonium nitrate. The CIA investigation was vague.
Another file concerns a dispute with Bosnian fugitives who claimed to have come into contact with aliens.
However, Greenwald argues that the publication of the archives is a matter of public interest and notes that citizens have a right to know.
The publication comes six months before the UFO report to be made public by the US government. The Pentagon and the secret services will have to disclose such information, following a bill signed by Donald Trump for the financial relief of the citizens from the coronavirus pandemic.
Intelligence experts have 180 days to formulate an official report on signs or secret aircraft near US military bases, which will be released later.