The Black Vault is an online internet database of officially declassified U.S. Government documents. John Greenewald, Jr., the creator of The Black Vault, began researching a vast array of topics by utilizing the Freedom of Information Act.

Since the beginning, it has now morphed into the site you see today... a fully operational social networking site, with hundreds of thousands of documents, forum posts, members, and so many features.

The idea is to create the largest Paranormal and Government Conspiracy research center in the world.

Around 500,000 officially declassified documents have been scanned into The Black Vault archive, which makes it already the largest archive of its kind anywhere in the world, outside of the U.S. Government itself.