Research & investigation · Journalism

John Greenewald

FOIA researcher and records publisher

Who they are

John Greenewald requests and publishes government records through The Black Vault. The timeline includes his September 2026 reporting on Navy correspondence involving Scott Bray and records behind an AARO data workshop. His contribution combines obtaining documents with explaining their scope; a release notice and its underlying records remain different kinds of evidence.

He makes otherwise difficult-to-find administrative records available for public examination.

Selected contributions

Requested and published the Navy records release concerning Scott Bray.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
Reported on the separate AARO workshop release and identified gaps left by redactions and withheld pages.Source ↗

Selected works

Journalism · 2026
Navy Releases Massive Cache of Scott Bray UAP Emails After Four Years; More Than 300 Pages Withheld in Full
Author and FOIA requester · The Black Vault
Greenewald explains the scope and withholding history of his Navy FOIA release concerning Scott Bray’s correspondence. It is a guide to the released collection, whose emails require their own contextual reading.
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Reading scope & citation
Fresh complete article text and byline/date read; prior release-letter inspection reused. The thousand-page correspondence collection was not audited.
Journalism · 2026
Behind AARO’s Private UAP Workshop: New Records Detail Participants, Foreign Outreach and Future Plans
Author and FOIA requester · The Black Vault
Greenewald reports on records concerning AARO’s 2025 workshop, including its agenda and foreign outreach. The article distinguishes documented plans and correspondence from outcomes that the partial release does not establish.
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Reading scope & citation
Fresh article text, byline, date and withholding discussion read; no complete reinspection of the attached FOIA package.