nbcnews | A UFO enthusiast has gathered more
than 100,000 pages of government documents related to reports of flying
saucers and other unexplained aerial phenomena -- and posted them online
for amateur Men in Black and professional conspiracy theorists alike.
The U.S. Air Force
declassified the massive trove of files over the years covering more
than 10,000 cases from the secret government Project Blue Book, which
investigated sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from 1947
until the project was closed in 1969.
But until last week, people could only view the full collection by visiting the National Archives in person.
Now these hints of
little green men are online thanks to John Greenewald, the UFO
enthusiast who collected and digitized the files on a free online
archive, the Project Blue Book Collection, through his web site The Black Vault.
His goal was to "give
the public the easiest way possible to access these things," Greenewald
said. "People are coming out of nowhere to look at this thing and it has
definitely surprised me quite a bit."
