On March 23, 2022, John Greenwald Jr released a partially redacted version of the classified 2021 UAP Report that was presented only to Congress. Using the power of the Freedom of Information Act he was able to get the document released through official channels, and posted on his website.
I am going to post excerpts that strike me as either new or presented in a more nuanced or interesting way than in the public version of the report.
Both reports are basically the same. However the classified version contains specifics that are paraphrased, glossed over, collapsed, or removed in the unclassified version. Here is a typical example:
UAP interrupting military activities
Unclassified: Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity.
Classified:
This is followed by a section that is almost entirely redacted in the classified version, none of which is given corresponding language in the unclassified version. It’s anyones guess as to what this says, but it relates to the unexplained nature of the available data:
UAP Collection Challenges
Unclassified: The sensors mounted on U.S. military platforms are typically designed to fulfill
specific missions. As a result, those sensors are not generally suited for identifying
UAP.
Classified:
Can be … what? Pray tell. Also, this is another example of a redacted paragraph that has no corresponding language that was carried over into the unclassified version. In the report we can read there are three bullets describing why it has been difficult to get data on UAP: witness stigma; sensor design; sensor location. The redacted block above represents the third of four bullets. So there is one other reason UAP are hard to defect that the government deems too sensitive to be revealed.
UAP Shape & Capabilities
This section is redacted but still revealing, and is only in the classified version:
Evidence of Advanced Technology
One of the more important sections of the 2021 UAP Report details evidence of advanced aerospace technology. However, all of the corroborating evidence was stripped out of the unclassified version. Here is what that evidence looked like in the classified report:
Here is the provided evidence of UAP acceleration and signature management. Some of these redactions probably contain the speed of the UAP:
Foreign Adversaries
In the section that states “We currently lack data to determine any UAP are part of a foreign collection program”, there is a third of a page that is redacted. This could be additional context or qualifications to the notion that UAP might be foreign aircraft.
Coordination
The second bullet was not in the unclassified version:
This note about the FBI is also included in the appendix:
Appendices
There are a few items in the Appendix not included in the Unclassified. The first seems to be a table of UAP events, and also shapes:
Finally, in a list of definitions for type of intelligence gathering programs, there is mention of videos:
Conclusion: the U.S. Congress got a 17 page report (compared to the 9 page public version) with some key supporting evidence but not extensive evidence, at least in this document. The conclusions are generally the same in both, but redactions suggest the classified conclusions were more pointed, and there may be some more specific conclusions that we cannot infer through the redactions. I recall congresspeople saying that the report was not earth-shaking, and based on this they were correct. It remains a very measured assessment. Still, if any of the redacted evidence (about flight speed or UAP shape) had been part of the unclassified report, the media and public might have treated it as a much more definitive assessment.