The power of governments to keep things hidden from the public has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked the (1) biggest intelligence scandal in NSA’s history, governments are being viewed with even greater skepticism and mistrust.
Yet more government secrecy can be found, this time in relation to the UFO phenomena. In the mid to late 1970s, several members of the group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the NSA and other US government agencies, to release its files on recorded UFO sightings.
Consequently a document is (2) available to read on The Black Vault. The document has been stamped “Top Secret Umbra”, the code word for what is considered the most sensitive category of intelligence communications. The paper titled ‘In Camera Affidavit of Eugene F. Yeates: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. National Security Agency’, was once classified. The affidavit was originally filed by the NSA in a lawsuit in 1980 to justify the concealment of records about UFOs.
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