Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
Read MoreTwinjet had experienced disruption to satellite-based navigation during service from Paris. French investigators are probing a substantial flightpath deviation by an Airbus A330-200 on approach to La Reunion in the southern Indian Ocean. The aircraft – operated by Spanish wet-lease and charter carrier Wamos Air – had been inbound to the territory from Paris Orly…
Two gas plants in Siberia were hit by FP-1 attack drones in what is said to be Ukraine’s farthest-reaching strike of the war. Ukraine is claiming to have struck two energy infrastructure sites roughly 1,800 miles (2,900km) inside Russian territory. Kyiv reported the operation on 9 September, saying natural gas processing plants in the Yamalo-Nenets…
Twinjet is due for delivery to Tashkent before year-end. Embraer has released first images of its lead of two C-390 tactical transports on order for Uzbekistan. Released via X on 10 September, pictures show the twinjet airlifter inside a hangar already sporting its grey paint scheme and Uzbekistan air force markings. Its tail shows the…
Three F-16s that flew in defense of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, will be retired and preserved as museum artifacts. The three planes all flew on 9/11: two were among the first three jets to scramble in defense of the capital and the third escorted Air Force One as it returned to Washington later in the…
Over the past few months and peaking in August, crews with the 910th Airlift Wing out of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, have been running nighttime, low-flying missions to kill a ubiquitous and deadly adversary that’s plagued Americans for centuries—mosquitoes. In a given year, crews with the wing conduct 25 recurring missions annually, blanketing thousands…
Editor’s Note: This article was updated Sept. 11 to include information from the 178th Wing and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The Air Force announced Aug. 13 it recently tested prototypes for a portable ground station for commanding and controlling semi-autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and a spokesperson now says the plan is to…
President Donald Trump and government and military leaders past and present paid tribute to the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, marking 25 years since a hijacked plane flew into the building, killing 184 victims. As rain poured down and the sun rose in the east, a massive…
The Space Force has selected a site in north Texas as the preferred location for the final site of its new Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, the service announced Sept. 9. Pending final approvals, construction on the new radar and accompanying facilities will start at Lake Kickapoo, Texas, in 2027, according to a Space Force…
A Harrier from the VMA-223 “Bulldogs,” the last built for the USMC, was demilitarized and transported to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. Another event marked the bittersweet retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II Vertical/Short Take-Off Landing (V/STOL) jet that took place in June 2026. The last Harrier built for the U.S. Marine Corps,…
Michigan ANG pilot Tom Froling was airborne on a routine training mission when America came under attack. Hours later, his squadron was loading live missiles and ammunition for combat air patrols over the United States. We spoke with him 25 years later about that day and what followed. “It was surrealistic. In all my training…
