The Attack on the “Black Vault”: Another Deep State Cover Up? By Chris Knight (Florida)
The article from Natural News.com (dated February 27, 2026) discusses a recent incident involving The Black Vault (TBV), a well-known independent archive run by researcher John Greenewald Jr. It hosts millions of declassified U.S. government documents on UFOs/UAPs, obtained via FOIA requests over decades.
Key points from the piece:
On February 19, 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social directing agencies (including the Department of War/Pentagon under Secretary Pete Hegseth) to identify and release all government files related to "alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."
The next day (February 20), TBV reportedly suffered a complete server wipe, deleting nearly 4 million files (hundreds of gigabytes) — including records on Roswell (1947), Majestic-12 (MJ-12), military UAP encounters, CIA programs, and even some JFK-related conspiracies.
Greenewald described it as oddly timed "server maintenance" gone wrong, with the hosting provider confirming files were deleted, not corrupted. He couldn't rule out foul play but leaned toward a technical glitch. He restored everything from backups and urged keeping multiple copies.
The article frames this as suspicious sabotage by "Deep State" elements resisting Trump's disclosure push, tying it to broader conspiracy narratives (e.g., opposition to transparency on extra-terrestrial biological entities or reverse-engineering programs).
This story appeared in outlets like Daily Mail, GB News, WION, and others around February 20–25, 2026, mostly reporting the wipe as a mysterious timing coincidence without hard evidence of intentional interference beyond speculation.
Trump's order is real and widely covered (Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, Scientific American, etc.). It followed comments by Barack Obama on aliens being statistically likely (which Trump accused of leaking classified info). Trump said he doesn't know if aliens are real but cited "tremendous interest" for the directive. Agencies are reportedly working on it, though no massive new releases have happened yet, and experts note much of what's already public (via prior declassifications) shows no confirmed extra-terrestrial evidence.
The Natural News.com piece doesn't describe any new 2026 UFO crash event. It references historical ones like Roswell (1947) in the wiped files context, but no fresh incident tied to the database wipe or Trump's order. Internet searches for recent/suspicious UFO crashes in 2026 mostly turn up older cases (e.g., Varginha, Brazil 1996 discussions resurfacing in UFO circles) or general crash-retrieval claims from whistle-blowers/hearings, but nothing new directly linked here. The "suspicious" angle seems centred on the database wipe's timing, not a literal crash.
Overall, this fits Natural News's style: amplifying conspiracy angles around real events (Trump's post, the technical outage at TBV) while speculating on cover-ups. Mainstream coverage treats the wipe as unfortunate/bad timing rather than proven malice, and Trump's order as a public-interest gesture amid ongoing UAP interest (no bombshell alien proof expected by most analysts). The usual.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-02-27-ufo-database-wiped-trump-orders-release-alien-docs.html
