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John Greenewald Jr. starts The Black Vault FOIA archive

When: 1996
Sources: 1 public source

John Greenewald Jr., then 15, began filing Freedom of Information Act requests in the summer of 1996 and started an online archive of the records he obtained, first called John's World and later The Black Vault. By 2020 it held more than two million pages, much of it on UFOs.

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PressInside the Black Vault (opens in a new tab)Columbia Journalism Review / 2020-05-06

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