He is best known as the creator of the Black Vault, a web site that houses thousands of UFO related documents obtained through FOIA from a wide variety of government agencies. He has been the master of ceremonies at many UFO conferences and symposiums in recent years and is one of the leaders in the UFO community.

He has spent several months investigating the AATIP program, some of the leaders of the AATIP program and the footage of UFOs taken by Navy fighter pilots. All this originated with the TV program Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.

His book is Inside the Black Vault: The Government’s UFO Secrets Revealed. It takes us on a journey through the secret world of unidentified aerial phenomena that has plagued the government since the 1940s. Declassified records prove that UFOS are one of the most highly classified subjects. What makes the book interesting is the journey that John took in his efforts to retrieve the documents from various agencies using his expertise in FOIA.