John Greenwald Jr.: 30 Years of UFO FOIA Secrets & Government Cover-Ups

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On this episode of Change Agents, Andy Stumpf speaks with John Greenwald Jr., the creator of the site https://www.theblackvault.com/, the largest online repository of declassified government documents anywhere on the internet. The discuss hidden UAP files, government secrets, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to force transparency and more. NOTE: This interview was recorded on April 23rd. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:13) How a 15-Year-Old Started Filing FOIA Requests (05:14) How FOIA Actually Works (And Where Most People Give Up) (13:53) The Nine Exemptions and the One They Abuse Most (20:27) UAP: The Pre-2017 vs. Post-2017 Cover-Up (28:40) Why the Navy Denies 100% of UAP Video FOIAs (31:27) Could the Government Plant Fake Documents? (37:00) The Missing Scientists: Coincidence or Pattern? (44:42) MKUltra, Frank Olson & the Financial Records Loophole (49:04) Stargate, Remote Viewing & Mars One Billion Years Ago Sponsors: Firecracker Farm Use code IRONCLAD to get 15% off your first order at https://firecracker.farm/ Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.1	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Change Agents in Iron Cloud Original, presented by Firecracker Farm.
1:22.0	Today we're going to talk about missing scientists and declassified UAP files. Our guest today is John Greenwald Jr., the creator of the site for blackbalk.com.
1:26.7	John has spent the last 30 years sending more than 11,000 Freedom of Information Act
1:31.1	requests to the federal government.
1:32.6	And now, his site is the largest privately run online repository of declassified government
1:38.1	documents anywhere in the world.
1:40.0	He is the founder of the site, The Black Vault, which contains more than 3.8 million pages of declassified government documents ranging in topics from UFOs and strange sightings to MK Ultra, Amelia Earhart, and JFK.
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