Valuable Government Resource? We Just Care About The Aliens

Resource Shelf has a post about the top searches in June and July on the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act website. The Freedom of Information Act is a hugely important move to declassify tons of government documents that could be extremely useful to citizens, companies, researchers, anyone. So, naturally, people are just looking for completely ridiculous things.
In June, searches for “UFO” were the second most popular (beaten only by “finland”), and in June, UFO searches were number one, with almost three times as many searches as anything of actual substance. Other people were searching for information on “family jewels”, the JFK assassination (since, you know, the CIA covered it up and then accidentally posted the info on its own website, right), cuba, and LSD.
The image above is pieced together from the #1 result for “UFO” on the website, an issue of the CIA magazine

Original post by Nathan Weinberg