Four working surfaces, none of them behind an account.
The globe, the live world board, the declassified document finder and the free tools. Open them, run something you already know the answer to, and judge the rest of the product on what you find.
Watch the World / Public globe
The world never stops. Neither does the search for context.
Explore public-world reporting, geographic signals, earth observation and source-labelled events together. Data access varies by provider and region; a blank area is not proof of an absence of activity.
What you are seeing
An embedded public-source world view. Report volume and freshness belong to the originating feeds, not a universal sensor network.
Loading the globe and its external data feeds…
Measured snapshot / 6 October 2026
These are observations from a previous measurement, not an automatically updating claim about present coverage.
- reports held and climbing — 42,669 measured two minutes after load
- 40,000+
- source organisations, from NASA and USGS to GDELT and ReliefWeb
- 31
- categories applied by rule: conflict, security, humanitarian, climate, economy, technology, space
- 7
- rolling window, deduplicated by article so one story is one record
- 7 days
Live now · free tier
The world, as the platform is seeing it
Not a screenshot and not a recording. This is the Live Operations module — one of the three that cost nothing — collecting from USGS, NASA EONET and OpenSky while you read.
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Events tracked
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Aircraft in the air
This board is free forever. A free account adds the filters, the full event history and the other two free modules.
Open the full boardDeclassified / Searchable / Source-attributed
History leaves a record. Find it.
Search declassified records from major national archives. Where an archive cannot be searched directly from the browser, BlackFiles opens the original archive with your query instead of treating the source as empty.
Explore the archive directlyOriginal archive destinations
- CIA Reading Room
- FBI Vault
- NSA
- US National Archives
- The National Archives (UK)
- MI5 files
- NATO
- United Nations
- Wilson Center
- Stasi Records
- National Archives of Australia
- Library and Archives Canada
Figures are from BlackFiles build 1.9, measured on 14 September 2026. They are not a live count or a guarantee of current provider availability.
Search the accessible record
Where an archive permits browser searches, BlackFiles returns the source record instead of inventing a result.
Continue at the original archive
Restricted or unsupported provider searches are handed to the source archive. A hand-off is not a confirmed match.
Separate record from interpretation
A declassified document proves what a record says, not automatically that every allegation inside it is true.
Source provenance, archive coverage and reliability must be assessed independently of search-result availability.
View evidence standardsNo account, no card
Two of them you can use right now.
Everything below this line is an argument about how carefully we collect. These two are where you go and check.
Deep Search
Free · no sign-in
One search put to six indexes at once, and the results kept apart by how many of them agree. A search engine hands you a ranked list in which a page four crawlers hold and a page one crawler holds look identical.
- Not in any live index. Pages an archive holds that no live engine returns any more. Removed, delisted or no longer crawled — and it says it cannot tell you which.
- Corroborated. Returned independently by two or more indexes.
Global Watch
Free with an account
Ten live sources in one sweep, each one reporting whether it answered. Two independent seismic networks, so a reading can be corroborated rather than taken on one organisation’s word.
- Nine disciplines. Seismic, volcanic, cyclone, severe weather, civil emergency, multi-hazard, space weather, military aviation.
- 798 live cameras. Published under the Open Government Licence. The stills load in your browser, not ours.
Both refuse the same things the paid product does. Deep Search will not look up a named person without an account, because an unauthenticated endpoint that profiles somebody on request is a surveillance tool pointed at the public whatever the intent.
The paid product is the same collection, written down.
What you are using here is the front of the same engine. What a plan adds is depth, the graded report, and the record of which sources answered — which is the part you can file.