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"centers-mitre-history-20261012",
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"centers-sandia-goco-20261012",
"centers-ornl-history-20261012",
"centers-ornl-specimen-20261012",
"centers-pnnl-history-20261012",
"centers-argonne-history-20261012",
"centers-idaho-history-20261012",
"centers-srnl-history-20261012",
"centers-brookhaven-history-20261012",
"centers-battelle-history-20261012",
"centers-sri-history-20261012",
"centers-leidos-separation-20261012",
"centers-utts-review-20261012",
"centers-jhu-history-20261012",
"centers-pennstate-history-20261012",
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"centers-gtri-uarc-20261012",
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"centers-far-establishing-20261012",
"centers-far-master-list-20261012",
"centers-nrc-records-20261012",
"centers-mitre-center-identities-20261012",
"centers-hawaii-arl-about-20261012",
"centers-icb-about-20261012",
"centers-ict-about-20261012",
"centers-serc-about-20261012",
"centers-nsri-about-20261012",
"centers-rita-about-20261012",
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"centers-nrao-about-20261012",
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"scope": "Bounded institutional/acronym inventory and passage-specific claim audit of UAP Gerb original public channel catalog. Research only; no repository edits or publishing. Institutional histories are verified in companion domain files, not inferred from video allegations.",
"mode": "manual institutional source review",
"basis": "Supporting passages inspected at source-specific locators; see each inspection record for originals, mirrors, retrospective accounts and access limits. No audiovisual viewing or comprehensive later-news sweep is asserted.",
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"mode": "manual institutional source review",
"basis": "Supporting passages inspected at source-specific locators; see each inspection record for originals, mirrors, retrospective accounts and access limits. No audiovisual viewing or comprehensive later-news sweep is asserted.",
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"navy-ncis-history-1997-20261012",
"navy-ncis-charter-index-20261012",
"navy-pax-history-20261012",
"navy-nawcad-mission-20261012",
"navy-usntps-history-20261012",
"navy-keyport-origin-article-20261012",
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"regional-2012-report-20261012",
"regional-chichen-20261012",
"regional-palenque-20261012",
"regional-pakal-claim-20261012",
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"regional-varginha-catalogue-20261012",
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"regional-varginha-film-20261012",
"regional-djoser-20261012",
"regional-giza-20261012",
"regional-pyramid-texts-20261012",
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"regional-egypt-writing-20261012",
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"basis": "Supporting passages, abstracts and catalogue records are scoped per source. Blocked originals, unwatched films and unreviewed raw data are explicit. Prior broad research cutoff and automatic-update permissions remain unchanged."
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"scope": "Canonical people directory; new biography and bibliography checks are scoped per profile and work. Earlier source inspection is reused where explicitly recorded. Portrait metadata inspected separately. No broad news cutoff or scheduled-operation change.",
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"title": "Once secret, now closed UFO program confirmed by Pentagon",
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"title": "What Is Up With Those Pentagon UFO Videos?",
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"note": "The NYT original was inaccessible during this audit; this is contemporaneous corroboration."
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"title": "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena",
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"url": "https://archive.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf",
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"note": ""
},
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"url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-declassifies-navy-videos-purportedly-show-ufos/story?id=70364183",
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"note": "The quoted statement says the released videos were unclassified; the article’s headline uses broader language."
},
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
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"note": "The original defense.gov / Navy announcement returned an access error in this audit."
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"title": "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft",
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"url": "https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "PDF opening, witness list and opening statements",
"note": ""
},
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"title": "UAP research at NASA",
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},
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
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"note": "The report’s title refers to its reporting year. Used here for the AARO establishment date."
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"title": "Schumer, Rounds introduce UAP records legislation",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Release dated July 14; proposal summary",
"note": "Sponsor announcement establishes the proposal, not enactment."
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"title": "UAP: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency",
"publisher": "House Oversight Committee",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/",
"publicationDate": "2023-07-26",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Hearing date, witness list and linked statements",
"note": ""
},
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"publisher": "House Oversight Committee",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dave_G_HOC_Speech_FINAL_For_Trans.pdf",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
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},
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"title": "David Fravor: witness statement",
"publisher": "House Oversight Committee",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/David-Fravor-Statement-for-House-Oversight-Committee.pdf",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "PDF pp. 1–3",
"note": "Retrospective firsthand account; the month, not a specific day, is stated."
},
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"title": "UAP Independent Study Team Report",
"publisher": "NASA",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Recommendations and printed p. 25 (PDF p. 26)",
"note": ""
},
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"id": "ndaa24",
"title": "Laws affecting NARA: FY2024 NDAA, §§1841–1843",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/nara",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Public Law 118-31, UAP records collection provisions",
"note": "Publication date is the law’s enactment date, not the webpage’s revision date."
},
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"title": "Pentagon UFO report says most sightings ordinary objects, phenomena",
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"url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/pentagon-ufo-report-says-most-sightings-ordinary-objects-phenomena-2024-03-08/",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
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"title": "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth",
"publisher": "House Oversight Committee",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Date and witness list",
"note": ""
},
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"title": "AARO chief unveils annual caseload analysis and new efforts",
"publisher": "DefenseScoop",
"url": "https://defensescoop.com/2024/11/14/uap-aaro-chief-unveils-pentagon-annual-caseload-analysis-new-efforts/",
"publicationDate": "2024-11-14",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
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"locator": "Annual report and director’s briefing",
"note": ""
},
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"url": "https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-activities-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Hearing date and witness",
"note": ""
},
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"id": "kosloski",
"title": "Jon Kosloski: statement to the Senate",
"publisher": "Senate Armed Services Committee",
"url": "https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/download/aaro-statement-112224",
"publicationDate": "2024-11-19",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "PDF pp. 1–3",
"note": "The statement is dated November 19; the download filename is not the hearing date."
},
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"id": "nara-first",
"title": "National Archives releases UAP records",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-07",
"publicationDate": "2025-04-24",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Release date and contributing agencies",
"note": ""
},
"nara-holdings": {
"id": "nara-holdings",
"title": "Record Group 615: UAP records collection",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/rg-615",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Agency holdings and collection identifiers",
"note": "Last reviewed is not a transfer or release date. Current holdings checked September 19, 2026."
},
"hearing25": {
"id": "hearing25",
"title": "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection",
"publisher": "House Oversight Committee",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency-and-whistleblower-protection/",
"publicationDate": "2025-09-09",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Date and witness list",
"note": ""
},
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"title": "Trump says he will direct agencies to release UFO files",
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"url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-orders-agencies-identify-release-government-files-aliens-2026-02-20/",
"publicationDate": "2026-02-20",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "February 19 statement as reported February 20 UTC",
"note": "A reported presidential announcement; not an inspected executive-order text."
},
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"title": "What the first PURSUE UFO file drop does—and does not—show",
"publisher": "DefenseScoop",
"url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/05/14/uap-trump-first-pursue-ufo-file-drop/",
"publicationDate": "2026-05-14",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "May 8 release and limits of the files",
"note": "The war.gov portal was inaccessible during this audit."
},
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"id": "annual26",
"title": "Pentagon investigating UAP event near Virginia coast",
"publisher": "DefenseScoop",
"url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/07/21/pentagon-investigating-ufo-uap-event-near-virginia-coast/",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "FY2025 report, reporting window and aggregate count",
"note": "Reporting says released ‘this week’; an exact release day is not assigned here. Conflicting component counts are omitted."
},
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"id": "archive26",
"title": "Pentagon seeks access to vast private UFO records collection",
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"url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/09/02/pentagon-seeks-access-to-vast-private-ufo-records-collection/",
"publicationDate": "2026-09-02",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Proposed archive access and contract options",
"note": "The linked SAM notice did not expose readable text. Notice date and award are not independently established."
},
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"id": "waiver26",
"title": "Pentagon announces legal relief for UAP disclosures to PURSUE",
"publisher": "DefenseScoop",
"url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/09/14/pentagon-legal-relief-uap-whistleblowers-trump-project/",
"publicationDate": "2026-09-14",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Announcement and reporting-channel restrictions",
"note": ""
},
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"id": "waiver-reprint",
"title": "Department announcement: UAP disclosures to PURSUE",
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"url": "https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/81654-president-trump-s-department-of-war-issues-legal-waiver-to-authorize-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-uap-and-unidentified-flying-objects-disclosures-to-pursue",
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"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reprint",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Reproduced September 14 announcement",
"note": "Same underlying announcement as other coverage, not independent corroboration. Operative signed waiver not inspected."
},
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"title": "Pentagon releases sixth batch of declassified UFO files",
"publisher": "FOX 5 DC",
"url": "https://www.fox5dc.com/news/pentagon-releases-sixth-batch-declassified-ufo-files",
"publicationDate": "2026-09-18",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Dated report and release description",
"note": "Original war.gov release and manifest were inaccessible. No file total is asserted."
},
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"id": "oss-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Office of Strategic Services",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/226.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "226.1 and 226.2",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"cia-history": {
"id": "cia-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Central Intelligence Agency",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/263.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "263.1",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
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"id": "nsc-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: National Security Council",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/273.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "273.1",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"usaf-history": {
"id": "usaf-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Office of the Secretary of the Air Force",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/340.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "340.1 and 340.2",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"aec-history": {
"id": "aec-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Atomic Energy Commission",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/326.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "326.1 and 326.2",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"nsa-history": {
"id": "nsa-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: National Security Agency / Central Security Service",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/457.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "457.1 and 457.2",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"dia-history": {
"id": "dia-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Defense Intelligence Agency",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/373.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "373.1",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"nasa-history": {
"id": "nasa-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/255.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "255.1 and 255.2",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"doe-history": {
"id": "doe-history",
"title": "Guide to Federal Records: Department of Energy",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/434.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "434.1",
"note": "Retrospective archival description. Formation, statutory authorization and operational dates are distinguished; the underlying orders have not all been inspected separately.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"doe-chronology": {
"id": "doe-chronology",
"title": "Timeline of Events: 1938–1950",
"publisher": "Department of Energy",
"url": "https://www.energy.gov/lm/timeline-events-1938-1950",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Entries for August 2, 1939; August 13, 1942; July 16, 1945; August 1, 1946 and January 1, 1947",
"note": "",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Department of Energy",
"custodian": "Department of Energy"
},
"leonardo-flight": {
"id": "leonardo-flight",
"title": "Leonardo da Vinci: Birdwatcher",
"publisher": "Smithsonian / Air & Space",
"url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/leonardo-da-vinci-birdwatcher-26505261/",
"publicationDate": "2013-09",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"locator": "Codex compilation dates and discussion of observation and flight",
"note": "Museum reporting about the manuscript; this audit did not inspect the original codex.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Rebecca Maksel",
"custodian": "Smithsonian / Air & Space"
},
"bbh-timeline": {
"id": "bbh-timeline",
"title": "200 years of partnership",
"publisher": "Brown Brothers Harriman",
"url": "https://www.bbh.com/us/en/bbh-who-we-are/our-story/200-years-of-partnership.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "1931: formation of Brown Brothers Harriman and Prescott Bush private-wealth entry",
"note": "The firm’s own retrospective history, not independent reporting or an incorporation filing.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Brown Brothers Harriman",
"custodian": "Brown Brothers Harriman"
},
"bbh-prescott": {
"id": "bbh-prescott",
"title": "Prescott Bush establishes private wealth management business",
"publisher": "Brown Brothers Harriman",
"url": "https://www.bbh.com/us/en/bbh-who-we-are/our-story/200-years-of-partnership/prescott-bush-establishes-private-wealth-management-business.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Opening paragraphs: employment at W. A. Harriman and development of the private-client business",
"note": "The narrative refers to merger activity in 1930; the firm’s main chronology dates the combined firm to 1931. No exact formation day is assigned.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Brown Brothers Harriman",
"custodian": "Brown Brothers Harriman"
},
"ubc-order": {
"id": "ubc-order",
"title": "Vesting Order 248: Union Banking Corporation",
"publisher": "Federal Register / Office of Alien Property Custodian",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1942-11-07/pdf/FR-1942-11-07.pdf#page=31",
"publicationDate": "1942-11-07",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Printed p. 9097, PDF p. 31; order heading, shareholder table, beneficial-ownership finding and signature",
"note": "Original page visually inspected. Executed October 20, filed November 6, published November 7. Registered ownership and the Custodian’s beneficial-ownership finding are different statements.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Alien Property Custodian Leo T. Crowley",
"custodian": "U.S. Government Publishing Office"
},
"tesla-papers": {
"id": "tesla-papers",
"title": "The missing papers",
"publisher": "PBS: Tesla, Master of Lightning",
"url": "https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"locator": "Account of the 1943 government examination and quotation of John G. Trump’s assessment",
"note": "Retrospective documentary companion. The underlying FBI/Alien Property file was not successfully inspected in this audit; this is a qualified historical account, not a newly authenticated technical result.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "PBS: Tesla, Master of Lightning",
"custodian": "PBS: Tesla, Master of Lightning"
},
"red-house-original": {
"id": "red-house-original",
"title": "SHAEF report EW-Pa 128 and State Department transmittal",
"publisher": "SHAEF / U.S. Department of State",
"url": "https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/05/800.51511-2744.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1944-11-07",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Report dated November 7, 1944; pages 2–3 describe the reported August 10 meeting; covering dispatch November 27",
"note": "An intelligence report relaying a source’s account, not a meeting transcript or independent confirmation of every assertion.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "SHAEF G-2 Economic Section",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"red-house-audit": {
"id": "red-house-audit",
"title": "SHAEF Intelligence Report EW-Pa 128: real plan or red herring?",
"publisher": "National Archives, The Text Message",
"url": "https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/06/03/shaef-intelligence-report-ew-pa-128-aka-the-red-house-report-real-plan-or-red-herring/",
"publicationDate": "2025-06-03",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Document provenance, differing copies and assessment of the reported meeting",
"note": "The attached records and archivist’s interpretation are separately identified. Declassification of one copy does not date every copy’s release.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "David Langbart",
"custodian": "National Archives, The Text Message"
},
"wcc-memo": {
"id": "wcc-memo",
"title": "Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Perkins)",
"publisher": "Foreign Relations of the United States",
"url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v08/d8",
"publicationDate": "1952-04-04",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Document 8, April 4, 1952; World Commerce Corporation proposal and Donovan law-firm representation",
"note": "Official documentary edition of a contemporaneous memorandum. It does not establish WCC’s incorporation date.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "George W. Perkins",
"custodian": "Department of State, Office of the Historian"
},
"bluebook-history": {
"id": "bluebook-history",
"title": "Project Blue Book: 50 years after its closure",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/project-blue-book-50th-anniversary",
"publicationDate": "2019-12-05",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Arnold report; December 1947 Sign order; Grudge succession; March 1952 Blue Book and closure",
"note": "",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Jonathan Marker",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"airforce-ufo-facts": {
"id": "airforce-ufo-facts",
"title": "U.S. Air Force fact sheet and archival guidance on UFO records",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "1985 Air Force fact sheet; Blue Book termination; September 8, 1994 Roswell announcement",
"note": "A compilation of institutional statements and archival guidance. Agency conclusions are attributed; unidentified cases remain distinct from evidence of an origin.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "National Archives",
"custodian": "National Archives"
},
"gao-roswell": {
"id": "gao-roswell",
"title": "Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico",
"publisher": "U.S. General Accounting Office",
"url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-187.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1995-07-28",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "NSIAD-95-187, July 28, 1995; pp. 1–5 and reproduced 1947 records",
"note": "GAO searched records. Its discussion of destroyed administrative files does not identify who authorized their destruction or establish a cover-up.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "U.S. General Accounting Office",
"custodian": "U.S. General Accounting Office"
},
"darpa-history": {
"id": "darpa-history",
"title": "DARPA marks its 60th anniversary",
"publisher": "DARPA",
"url": "https://www.darpa.mil/news/2018/d60-symposium",
"publicationDate": "2018-04-17",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Opening paragraph: McElroy’s February 7, 1958 establishment of ARPA",
"note": "",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "DARPA",
"custodian": "DARPA"
},
"nro-agreement": {
"id": "nro-agreement",
"title": "Letter confirming arrangements for the National Reconnaissance Program",
"publisher": "Foreign Relations of the United States",
"url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v25/d90",
"publicationDate": "1961-09-06",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Document 90, September 6, 1961; paragraphs 1–4 and editorial note 2",
"note": "The letter establishes the proposed covert management arrangement. The editorial note warns that the co-directorship agreement did not go into effect as written.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Roswell L. Gilpatric; concurrence by C. P. Cabell",
"custodian": "Department of State, Office of the Historian"
},
"monroe-history": {
"id": "monroe-history",
"title": "The history of the Monroe Institute",
"publisher": "Monroe Institute",
"url": "https://www.monroeinstitute.org/pages/history",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Research origins and 1971 institutional history",
"note": "Organizational self-history. The page describes creation in 1971 while other site wording says “since 1973”; neither is treated as an inspected legal incorporation record.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Monroe Institute",
"custodian": "Monroe Institute"
},
"gateway-report": {
"id": "gateway-report",
"title": "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process",
"publisher": "U.S. Army INSCOM; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5",
"publicationDate": "1983-06-09",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "June 9, 1983 memorandum, opening task statement, conclusions and bibliography",
"note": "Army-authored assessment preserved in CIA files. CIA hosting is not CIA authorship or scientific endorsement. Supporting text read from the archival scan/OCR; the current CIA document URL redirected away from the record.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Wayne M. McDonnell, U.S. Army",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive"
},
"sri-report": {
"id": "sri-report",
"title": "Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part One: Executive Summary",
"publisher": "Stanford Research Institute; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00787R000700050001-1",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Cover; I Objective; II Summary; Category I operational examples",
"note": "The report covers January 1974–February 1975; its exact issue date is not established here. Favorable results are the investigators’ conclusions. Current CIA URL redirected; archival text inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive"
},
"air-final": {
"id": "air-final",
"title": "An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications",
"publisher": "American Institutes for Research; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180006-4",
"publicationDate": "1995-09-29",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "September 29, 1995 final report; Executive Summary E-1–E-5; Chapter 1; reviewer assessments in Chapter 3",
"note": "Final report, distinguished from the separately inspected September 22 draft. The AIR authors’ conclusions, Utts’s assessment and Hyman’s assessment are not interchangeable.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Michael D. Mumford, Andrew M. Rose and David A. Goslin",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive"
},
"utts-assessment": {
"id": "utts-assessment",
"title": "An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning",
"publisher": "Jessica Utts / University of California, Irvine",
"url": "https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jutts/air.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1995",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Abstract, introduction, SRI/SAIC history and discussion of replication",
"note": "Author’s university-hosted assessment prepared for the AIR review. It argues for anomalous cognition; it is not a consensus declaration or proof of intelligence utility.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Jessica Utts",
"custodian": "Jessica Utts / University of California, Irvine"
},
"hyman-assessment": {
"id": "hyman-assessment",
"title": "Evaluation of program on anomalous mental phenomena",
"publisher": "Ray Hyman / University of California, Irvine mirror",
"url": "https://ics.uci.edu/~jutts/hyman.html",
"publicationDate": "1995-09-11",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "September 11, 1995 evaluation; response to Utts and concerns about independent replication",
"note": "Hyman accepts statistical departures in the reviewed work but disputes the inference that a paranormal mechanism is established.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Ray Hyman",
"custodian": "Jessica Utts’s university page"
},
"monroe-mcmoneagle": {
"id": "monroe-mcmoneagle",
"title": "From the director’s chair: August 2017",
"publisher": "Monroe Institute",
"url": "https://www.monroeinstitute.org/blogs/blog/from-the-directors-chair-august-2017",
"publicationDate": "2017-07-29",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "July 29, 2017 post: Joe McMoneagle’s role and work with Robert Monroe",
"note": "An account by institute leadership and McMoneagle’s spouse. It supports what the institute said about him, not independent verification of claimed abilities or operational successes.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Nancy H. McMoneagle",
"custodian": "Monroe Institute"
},
"voyager-record": {
"id": "voyager-record",
"title": "Voyager Golden Record: contents",
"publisher": "NASA",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/golden-record-contents/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Record-selection committee and its chair Carl Sagan",
"note": "NASA’s mission history identifies the selection role. A message sent toward space is not evidence that it was received.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "NASA",
"custodian": "NASA"
},
"voyager-overview": {
"id": "voyager-overview",
"title": "Voyager Golden Record: overview",
"publisher": "NASA",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-record-overview/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "1977 launches and purpose of the records",
"note": "",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "NASA",
"custodian": "NASA"
},
"area51-release": {
"id": "area51-release",
"title": "The secret history of the U-2—and Area 51",
"publisher": "National Security Archive, George Washington University",
"url": "https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/",
"publicationDate": "2013-08-15",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "August 15, 2013 release account; June 25 approval; provenance and newly unredacted material",
"note": "The FOIA recipient’s firsthand release account was inspected. This nongovernmental archive is not the National Archives or the NSA. The entire underlying CIA history was not audited here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Jeffrey T. Richelson / National Security Archive",
"custodian": "National Security Archive, George Washington University"
},
"vallee-finding-aid": {
"id": "vallee-finding-aid",
"title": "Jacques F. Vallée UFO and paranormal phenomena papers, MS 0672",
"publisher": "Rice University, Woodson Research Center",
"url": "https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/1085",
"publicationDate": "2019",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Immediate Source of Acquisition; Scope and Contents; Conditions Governing Access",
"note": "Finding aid, not the underlying restricted papers. Donations began December 2016. Series have different future opening dates; listed holdings do not mean their contents are publicly readable.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Rice University, Woodson Research Center",
"custodian": "Rice University, Woodson Research Center"
},
"magenta-report": {
"id": "magenta-report",
"title": "The flying object allegedly kept secret by Mussolini",
"publisher": "Il Fatto Quotidiano",
"url": "https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/03/21/ufo-in-italia-loggetto-volante-secretato-da-mussolini-lenigma-dei-piloti-alieni/3465633/",
"publicationDate": "2017-03-21",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "reporting",
"locator": "March 21, 2017 account attributing the 1933 story to Roberto Pinotti and earlier coverage",
"note": "Later reporting of an allegation. No authenticated 1933 crash record or chain of custody was inspected. This is an accessible dated retelling, not a claim to have found the story’s first publication.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Davide Turrini",
"custodian": "Il Fatto Quotidiano"
},
"center-lane-review": {
"id": "center-lane-review",
"title": "CENTER LANE Human Use Review",
"publisher": "U.S. Army INSCOM; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001500160002-8",
"publicationDate": "1984-03-26",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "March 26, 1984 memorandum, pp. 1–3; background, program transition and recommended review",
"note": "The memorandum was read in the archival copy. It documents administrative history and a recommended review, not a demonstrated paranormal capability or a fresh legal opinion.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Brian Buzby, CENTER LANE Project Manager",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive"
},
"lazar-klas-retrospective": {
"id": "lazar-klas-retrospective",
"title": "I-Team: a look back at the 1989 Bob Lazar interview",
"publisher": "KLAS-TV / 8 News Now, official YouTube channel",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRjgBVw9Pk",
"publicationDate": "2019-05-16",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"locator": "Description and transcript 0:00–1:10; George Knapp identification 0:24 and 4:46",
"note": "The original broadcaster’s retrospective description and transcript were inspected. The upload is May 16, 2019; its description dates the original anonymous interview to May 15, 1989. Transcript errors and later commentary are not used to validate the technology claims.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "George Knapp / KLAS-TV",
"custodian": "8 News Now official YouTube channel"
},
"emmel-nag-hammadi": {
"id": "emmel-nag-hammadi",
"title": "Nag Hammadi Library — The Coptic Encyclopedia",
"author": "Stephen Emmel",
"publisher": "Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia / Macmillan",
"custodian": "Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia / Macmillan",
"url": "https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/1418/",
"publicationDate": "1991",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Vol. 6, pp. 1771a–1773b; composition, manufacture, conservation and bibliography paragraphs",
"note": "Full article text read through the library’s item transcript. This is a scholarly reference, not a contemporary excavation report. Its detailed discovery narrative is qualified by the later Goodacre study.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"janssens-thomas": {
"id": "janssens-thomas",
"title": "Gospel of Thomas — The Coptic Encyclopedia",
"author": "Yvonne Janssens",
"publisher": "Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia / Macmillan",
"custodian": "Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia / Macmillan",
"url": "https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/902/",
"publicationDate": "1991",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Pp. 1162b–1163b; paragraph on the 1959 editio princeps",
"note": "Full library transcript read. The article’s dating and classification of Thomas are scholarly positions, not a unanimous or final resolution.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"goodacre-nag-hammadi": {
"id": "goodacre-nag-hammadi",
"title": "How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?",
"author": "Mark Goodacre",
"publisher": "Journal for the Study of the New Testament / author-hosted paper",
"custodian": "Journal for the Study of the New Testament / author-hosted paper",
"url": "https://markgoodacre.org/NagHammadiStory.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2013",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "35(4), pp. 303–322; especially 314–319 and bibliography pp. 321–322",
"note": "The author’s paper was inspected. Its bibliography identifies the 1977 English collection and the 1988 third revised edition; those books’ complete contents were not independently inspected for this addition.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"athanasius-letter39": {
"id": "athanasius-letter39",
"title": "From Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter",
"author": "Athanasius; translated by R. Payne-Smith",
"publisher": "New Advent / Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers",
"custodian": "New Advent / Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers",
"url": "https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2806039.htm",
"publicationDate": "1892",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Heading “For 367”; sections 2–7 and source credit",
"note": "An English translation of excerpts from an ancient letter, reproduced by New Advent. The translation’s publication year is separate from the letter’s year. The excerpts do not document the burial of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"pearse-nag-hammadi": {
"id": "pearse-nag-hammadi",
"title": "The Nag Hammadi discovery of manuscripts",
"author": "Roger Pearse",
"publisher": "Tertullian.org / Roger Pearse",
"custodian": "Tertullian.org / Roger Pearse",
"url": "https://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/nag_hammadi.htm",
"publicationDate": "2003-07-31",
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Publication paragraph and bibliography",
"note": "Used narrowly for the 1972–1984 facsimile series, corroborated by Emmel’s bibliography. Its colorful discovery reconstruction is not adopted; the page includes a later correction of its own.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-book-guide": {
"id": "ra-book-guide",
"title": "The Law of One books: contents and editions",
"author": "Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
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"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "“The Original Law of One Books” and “The Ra Contact”",
"note": "An editor’s account of the editions, not independent verification of channeling. L/L Research’s linked legacy download pages returned access errors; they are not marked inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "ra-session-directory",
"title": "Dated directory of the 106 Ra sessions",
"author": "L/L Research; directory edited by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
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"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Session numbers and date labels 1–106",
"note": "These are the archive’s session dates. The directory is not a record of when each transcript first became public, nor evidence of the claimed source’s identity.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-participant-introductions": {
"id": "ra-participant-introductions",
"title": "Introductions to The Law of One, Books I and V",
"author": "Don Elkins, Carla L. Rueckert and Jim McCarty",
"publisher": "L/L Research, reproduced at Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "L/L Research, reproduced at Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/Intro",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Book I: participants and recording procedure; Book V: McCarty’s and Rueckert’s introductory statements",
"note": "Read as the participants’ account. Descriptions of trance, contact and causation remain attributed; an experiment described by its participants is not thereby an independently controlled demonstration.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-1": {
"id": "ra-session-1",
"title": "The Law of One — session 1",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/1",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "1.1, 1.5, 1.7 and the note following 1.10",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1981-01-15. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-16": {
"id": "ra-session-16",
"title": "The Law of One — session 16",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/16",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "16.30–32 and 16.50–51",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1981-01-31. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-27": {
"id": "ra-session-27",
"title": "The Law of One — session 27",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/27",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "27.3–17",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1981-02-21. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-54": {
"id": "ra-session-54",
"title": "The Law of One — session 54",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/54",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "54.7–17",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1981-05-29. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-76": {
"id": "ra-session-76",
"title": "The Law of One — session 76",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/76",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "76.6–9",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1982-02-03. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ra-session-106": {
"id": "ra-session-106",
"title": "The Law of One — session 106",
"author": "L/L Research; edited transcript hosted by Tobey Wheelock",
"publisher": "Lawofone.info",
"custodian": "Lawofone.info",
"url": "https://www.lawofone.info/s/106",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Session date and 106.1–13",
"note": "The archive dates this session 1984-03-15. The webpage’s first-publication date is not established here. Supporting transcript passages were read; original audio was not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"red-house-original-v2": {
"id": "red-house-original-v2",
"title": "SHAEF report EW-Pa 128 and State Department transmittal",
"publisher": "SHAEF / U.S. Department of State",
"url": "https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2025/05/800.51511-2744.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Report dated November 7, 1944; pages 2–3 describe the reported August 10 meeting; covering dispatch November 27",
"note": "An intelligence report relaying a source’s account, not a meeting transcript or independent confirmation of every assertion. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "SHAEF G-2 Economic Section",
"custodian": "National Archives",
"supersedes": "red-house-original",
"documentDate": "1944-11-07",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"wcc-memo-v2": {
"id": "wcc-memo-v2",
"title": "Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Perkins)",
"publisher": "Foreign Relations of the United States",
"url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v08/d8",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Document 8, April 4, 1952; World Commerce Corporation proposal and Donovan law-firm representation",
"note": "Official documentary edition of a contemporaneous memorandum. It does not establish WCC’s incorporation date. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "George W. Perkins",
"custodian": "Department of State, Office of the Historian",
"supersedes": "wcc-memo",
"documentDate": "1952-04-04",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"nro-agreement-v2": {
"id": "nro-agreement-v2",
"title": "Letter confirming arrangements for the National Reconnaissance Program",
"publisher": "Foreign Relations of the United States",
"url": "https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v25/d90",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Document 90, September 6, 1961; paragraphs 1–4 and editorial note 2",
"note": "The letter establishes the proposed covert management arrangement. The editorial note warns that the co-directorship agreement did not go into effect as written. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Roswell L. Gilpatric; concurrence by C. P. Cabell",
"custodian": "Department of State, Office of the Historian",
"supersedes": "nro-agreement",
"documentDate": "1961-09-06",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"gateway-report-v2": {
"id": "gateway-report-v2",
"title": "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process",
"publisher": "U.S. Army INSCOM; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "June 9, 1983 memorandum, opening task statement, conclusions and bibliography",
"note": "Army-authored assessment preserved in CIA files. CIA hosting is not CIA authorship or scientific endorsement. Supporting text read from the archival scan/OCR; the current CIA document URL redirected away from the record. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Wayne M. McDonnell, U.S. Army",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive",
"supersedes": "gateway-report",
"documentDate": "1983-06-09",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"sri-report-v2": {
"id": "sri-report-v2",
"title": "Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part One: Executive Summary",
"publisher": "Stanford Research Institute; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00787R000700050001-1",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Cover; I Objective; II Summary; Category I operational examples",
"note": "The cover dates the research period January 1974–February 1975; exact report issue and first public-release dates are not established.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive",
"supersedes": "sri-report",
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"researchPeriod": {
"start": "1974-01",
"end": "1975-02"
}
},
"air-final-v2": {
"id": "air-final-v2",
"title": "An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications",
"publisher": "American Institutes for Research; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180006-4",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "September 29, 1995 final report; Executive Summary E-1–E-5; Chapter 1; reviewer assessments in Chapter 3",
"note": "Final report, distinguished from the separately inspected September 22 draft. The AIR authors’ conclusions, Utts’s assessment and Hyman’s assessment are not interchangeable. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Michael D. Mumford, Andrew M. Rose and David A. Goslin",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive",
"supersedes": "air-final",
"documentDate": "1995-09-29",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"hyman-assessment-v2": {
"id": "hyman-assessment-v2",
"title": "Evaluation of program on anomalous mental phenomena",
"publisher": "Ray Hyman / University of California, Irvine mirror",
"url": "https://ics.uci.edu/~jutts/hyman.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "September 11, 1995 evaluation; response to Utts and concerns about independent replication",
"note": "Hyman accepts statistical departures in the reviewed work but disputes the inference that a paranormal mechanism is established. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Ray Hyman",
"custodian": "Jessica Utts’s university page",
"supersedes": "hyman-assessment",
"documentDate": "1995-09-11",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"center-lane-review-v2": {
"id": "center-lane-review-v2",
"title": "CENTER LANE Human Use Review",
"publisher": "U.S. Army INSCOM; archival copy",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001500160002-8",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-09-19",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "March 26, 1984 memorandum, pp. 1–3; background, program transition and recommended review",
"note": "The memorandum was read in the archival copy. It documents administrative history and a recommended review, not a demonstrated paranormal capability or a fresh legal opinion. Document creation and public publication are different; first public release is not established here.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"author": "Brian Buzby, CENTER LANE Project Manager",
"custodian": "CIA-released record mirrored by Internet Archive",
"supersedes": "center-lane-review",
"documentDate": "1984-03-26",
"publicReleasedAt": null
},
"washington-film-nara": {
"id": "washington-film-nara",
"title": "Project Blue Book: Looking to the Film Record",
"publisher": "National Archives",
"url": "https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2013/09/30/project-blue-book-looking-to-the-film-record/",
"publicationDate": "2013-09-30",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "July 31, 1952 film, local identifier 111-LC-30875; distinction from the earlier press conference",
"note": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review"
},
"robertson-panel": {
"id": "robertson-panel",
"title": "Durant report on the Robertson Panel",
"publisher": "CIA; text reproduced by NCAS",
"url": "https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/appndx-u.htm",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Appendix U; meeting dates, covering memorandum, conclusions and recommendations, printed pp. 1394–1421",
"note": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review This is a hosted copy of the named creator’s record; the host is not an independent confirming source.",
"documentDate": "1953-02-16"
},
"ozma-nrao": {
"id": "ozma-nrao",
"title": "NRAO historical timeline: Project Ozma",
"publisher": "National Radio Astronomy Observatory",
"url": "https://www.nrao.edu/archives/nrao-timeline",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "NRAO historical timeline, 1960/Project Ozma entry",
"note": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review"
},
"shag-harbour-mirror-pdf": {
"id": "shag-harbour-mirror-pdf",
"title": "Canadian Shag Harbour records: October 1967 messages and memorandum",
"publisher": "Canadian government; archival scan mirror",
"url": "https://realufo.org/api/file/CANADA-NRC-UAR-N-116-125",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "PDF pp. 10–11, October 5 message and October 6 memorandum; both visually read; RG 77, vol. 310",
"note": "PDF pp. 10–11 visually inspected; no full-dossier review This is a hosted copy of the named creator’s record; the host is not an independent confirming source."
},
"shag-harbour-primary": {
"id": "shag-harbour-primary",
"title": "Shag Harbour record catalogue",
"publisher": "Library and Archives Canada",
"url": "https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ufo/001057-119.02-e.php?isn_id_nbr=4725&page_id_nbr=3567",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "LAC legacy record index, item 4725, provenance only",
"note": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review"
},
"condon-conclusions": {
"id": "condon-conclusions",
"title": "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects: conclusions and recommendations",
"publisher": "University of Colorado; reproduced by NCAS",
"url": "https://files.ncas.org/condon/text/sec-i.htm",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Section I, Conclusions and Recommendations",
"note": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review This is a hosted copy of the named creator’s record; the host is not an independent confirming source."
},
"colorado-archive": {
"id": "colorado-archive",
"title": "Edward U. Condon and UFO studies",
"publisher": "University of Colorado Boulder Libraries",
"url": "https://libraries.colorado.edu/2018/04/02/archives-edward-u-condon-and-ufo-studies",
"publicationDate": "2018-04-02",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Paragraph describing the Condon papers and 1968 report",
"note": "Complete brief institutional archive article; identifies a 1968 report. Does not establish an exact 1969 public-release date."
},
"iran-routing-mirror": {
"id": "iran-routing-mirror",
"title": "Tehran UFO incident: Defense Attaché report and routing record",
"publisher": "US Defense Attaché Office; NICAP scan mirror",
"url": "https://nicap.org/reports/760919routing_slip_ufo_iran.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-10",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
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"title": "Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae",
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"title": "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem (Erste Mitteilung)",
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"title": "A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae",
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"note": "Supporting text and table headings inspected; individual measurements and fitted uncertainties not independently recomputed.",
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"title": "Radio Waves from Outside the Solar System",
"author": "Karl G. Jansky",
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"url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/132066a0",
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"title": "Finding Aid to the Papers of Karl G. Jansky, 1923–1998",
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"publisher": "National Radio Astronomy Observatory",
"custodian": "National Radio Astronomy Observatory",
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"title": "Sir Robert Watson-Watt",
"author": "National Physical Laboratory",
"publisher": "National Physical Laboratory",
"custodian": "National Physical Laboratory",
"url": "https://www.npl.co.uk/about-us/history/famous/sir-robert-watson-watt",
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"title": "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem",
"author": "Alan M. Turing",
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"custodian": "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society; transcription PDF hosted by University of Oxford",
"url": "https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-library/sources/tp2-ie.pdf",
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"locator": "Opening, §6 universal machine and introductory acknowledgment of Church; original pp. 230–231 and 241–242",
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"title": "Alan Turing’s Scientific Papers",
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"custodian": "Alan Turing: The Enigma website",
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"locator": "On Computable Numbers entry",
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"title": "Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction",
"author": "Lise Meitner; O. R. Frisch",
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"custodian": "Nature 143, 239–240; facsimile hosted by Texas A&M University",
"url": "https://people.tamu.edu/~f-narcowich/m641/m641_notes/Meitner-Frisch-1939.pdf",
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"title": "A Mathematical Theory of Communication",
"author": "Claude E. Shannon",
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"title": "A Mathematical Theory of Communication",
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"url": "https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/publications-and-media/publications/a-mathematical-theory-of-communication/",
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"id": "dna1953-model",
"title": "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid",
"author": "J. D. Watson; F. H. C. Crick",
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"url": "https://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom/classes/W03/watson-crick.html",
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"title": "Discovering the structure of DNA",
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"custodian": "King’s College London",
"url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/about/kings-and-dna",
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"locator": "Body paragraphs identifying the April 1953 sequence and naming Wilkins, Stokes and Wilson; retrieved lines 27–33",
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"title": "Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay",
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"publisher": "Physical Review 105, 1413–1415, American Physical Society",
"custodian": "Physical Review 105, 1413–1415, American Physical Society",
"url": "https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.105.1413",
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"locator": "Original pp. 1413–1414, introduction, apparatus checks and concluding call for further experiments",
"note": "Supporting original-paper passages read from publisher PDF; raw counts and statistical analysis not independently reproduced. Publication date checked on article page.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "The Reversal of Parity Law in Nuclear Physics",
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"url": "https://www.nist.gov/pml/fall-parity/reversal-parity-law-nuclear-physics",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
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"title": "The Principles of Psychology, Chapter IX: The Stream of Thought",
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"url": "https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin9.htm",
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"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Chapter opening and Five Characters in Thought, original pp. 224–227",
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"title": "Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves",
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"custodian": "Revista Trimestral de Histología Normal y Patológica 1; Universidad de Zaragoza, Repositorio Zaguán",
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"locator": "PDF/original pp. 1–2 and 5–6; issue date, method acknowledgment and free-ending description",
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"title": "Cajal, la Neurociencia y su escuela",
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"custodian": "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas",
"url": "https://www.mncn.csic.es/es/cajal-la-neurociencia-y-su-escuela",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Opening paragraphs on Golgi’s stain and the 1888–1892 work",
"note": "Supporting custodial text read; its broad retrospective synapse wording is not attributed to the 1888 report.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "sputnik-launius",
"title": "Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age",
"author": "Roger D. Launius",
"publisher": "NASA History",
"custodian": "NASA History",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/sputorig.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Introduction, paragraphs on the launch, spacecraft and reentry; American Response and Birth of NASA",
"note": "Launch/background passages read, not all linked archival documents.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "sputnik-harford",
"title": "Korolev’s Triple Play: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3",
"author": "James Harford",
"publisher": "NASA History",
"custodian": "NASA History",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/history/sputnik/harford.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Simplest Satellite and launch-preparation passages, especially Ivanovsky’s account",
"note": "Relevant design and preparation passages read; underlying interviews not independently audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "cocconi-morrison-reprint",
"title": "Searching for Interstellar Communications",
"author": "Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison",
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"custodian": "Nature; permissioned abridged reprint in Cosmic Search, hosted by NAAPO/Ohio State Radio Observatory",
"url": "https://www.bigear.org/CSMO/HTML/CS01/cs01p04.htm",
"publicationDate": "1979-01",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Editorial provenance, especially line 11 giving Nature volume 184, number 4690, pp. 844–846, September 19, 1959; proposal and closing uncertainty passages",
"note": "Provenance, exact original publication date, qualitative proposal and explicit uncertainty inspected. Full original Nature retrieval failed; omitted equations and complete original remain unread.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "gagarin-nasa-history",
"title": "Remembering Yuri Gagarin 50 Years Later",
"author": "John Uri",
"publisher": "NASA Johnson Space Center",
"custodian": "NASA Johnson Space Center",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/history/remembering-yuri-gagarin-50-years-later/",
"publicationDate": "2018-03-27",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Opening paragraph",
"note": "Opening historical passage inspected; later career details excluded.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "gagarin-nasa-resource",
"title": "Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA Science",
"custodian": "NASA Science",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/resource/yuri-gagarin-first-human-in-space/",
"publicationDate": "2018-04-09",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Resource caption",
"note": "Entire short historical caption inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "johnson-nasa-biography",
"title": "Katherine Johnson Biography",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA Langley Research Center",
"custodian": "NASA Langley Research Center",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/katherine-johnson-biography/",
"publicationDate": "2016-11-22",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Paragraphs beginning In 1962; The computers had been programmed; As a part of the preflight checklist",
"note": "Specific 1962 paragraphs and the adjacent 1960 coauthored-report context inspected; no claim to review mission calculation sheets.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "bell-1964-paper",
"title": "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox",
"author": "J. S. Bell",
"publisher": "Physics Physique Fizika / American Physical Society",
"custodian": "Physics Physique Fizika / American Physical Society",
"url": "https://journals.aps.org/ppf/pdf/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195",
"publicationDate": "1964",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "pp. 195–196 introduction and formulation; pp. 198–199 contradiction and conclusion; author footnote",
"note": "Supporting prose in introduction, formulation and conclusion inspected. OCR omits some equations; no independent proof verification.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "cmb-penzias-wilson-paper",
"title": "A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s",
"author": "A. A. Penzias and R. W. Wilson",
"publisher": "The Astrophysical Journal / American Astronomical Society; NASA ADS scan",
"custodian": "The Astrophysical Journal / American Astronomical Society; NASA ADS scan",
"url": "https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1965ApJ...142..419P",
"publicationDate": "1965-07",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed pp. 419–421, especially opening, instrument checks and final residual estimate",
"note": "All three pages of this short paper’s extracted text inspected, including calibration discussion; not independent data reanalysis.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"cmb-dicke-paper": {
"id": "cmb-dicke-paper",
"title": "Cosmic Black-Body Radiation",
"author": "R. H. Dicke, P. J. E. Peebles, P. G. Roll and D. T. Wilkinson",
"publisher": "The Astrophysical Journal / American Astronomical Society; NASA ADS scan",
"custodian": "The Astrophysical Journal / American Astronomical Society; NASA ADS scan",
"url": "https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1965ApJ...142..414D",
"publicationDate": "1965-07",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed pp. 415–416 on relic radiation, Princeton instrument, Bell measurement and needed spectrum; p. 419 byline",
"note": "Specified supporting passages inspected; detailed alternative cosmological calculations not independently evaluated.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"bell-burnell-pulsar-account": {
"id": "bell-burnell-pulsar-account",
"title": "Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars?",
"author": "S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell",
"publisher": "Cosmic Search; permissioned reprint hosted by NRAO",
"custodian": "Cosmic Search; permissioned reprint hosted by NRAO",
"url": "https://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/PSC/burnell.htme",
"publicationDate": "1979-01",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Paragraphs on survey operation, fast recordings, Scott/Collins, Pilkington and additional sources",
"note": "Discovery-sequence passages and reprint provenance inspected; account originated as a speech published December 1977.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "pulsar-csiro-history",
"title": "Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe",
"author": "George Hobbs, Dick Manchester and Simon Johnston",
"publisher": "CSIRO",
"custodian": "CSIRO",
"url": "https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2017/november/pulsar",
"publicationDate": "2017-11-28",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "The discovery",
"note": "The discovery section inspected, used for chronology rather than as an independent measurement.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"apollo11-mission-overview": {
"id": "apollo11-mission-overview",
"title": "Apollo 11 Mission Overview",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA",
"custodian": "NASA",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11-mission-overview/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Mission Highlights: crew, launch, lunar-orbit insertion and July 20 descent",
"note": "Selected mission-highlights passages inspected; not the complete mission report or flight journals.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
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"id": "apollo11-mission-page",
"title": "Apollo 11",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA",
"custodian": "NASA",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-11/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Mission objective, Launch/Splashdown fields and crew biographies",
"note": "Mission date fields and crew-role passages inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"viking-nasa-astrobiology": {
"id": "viking-nasa-astrobiology",
"title": "Viking Project and Astrobiology",
"author": "NASA Astrobiology",
"publisher": "NASA Science",
"custodian": "NASA Science",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/astrobiology/missions/viking-project/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Mission Overview; Relevance to Astrobiology; key figures list",
"note": "Those supporting sections inspected; unrelated image captions and first-landing wording are not relied upon. Page displays July 21, 2026 update.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"viking-spacecraft-science": {
"id": "viking-spacecraft-science",
"title": "Viking Spacecraft and Science",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA Science",
"custodian": "NASA Science",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viking/spacecraft-and-science/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Viking Landers; Science Highlights",
"note": "Selected biology-result passages inspected, not original instrument data or all later reinterpretations. Page displays July 20, 2026 update.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"neanderthal-green-paper": {
"id": "neanderthal-green-paper",
"title": "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome",
"author": "Richard E. Green and colleagues",
"publisher": "Science / AAAS; copy hosted by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology",
"custodian": "Science / AAAS; copy hosted by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology",
"url": "https://www.eva.mpg.de/presskit/neandertal/press/presskit-neandertal/pdf/Science_Green.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2010-05-07",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed pp. 710–713 byline, samples and contamination controls; pp. 720–722 gene-flow discussion",
"note": "Specified sampling, comparison and concluding gene-flow passages inspected; complete supplementary methods and raw sequences not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ligo-gw150914-paper": {
"id": "ligo-gw150914-paper",
"title": "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger",
"author": "B. P. Abbott and colleagues (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)",
"publisher": "Physical Review Letters / APS; LIGO Document Control Center copy",
"custodian": "Physical Review Letters / APS; LIGO Document Control Center copy",
"url": "https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0122/P150914/014/LIGO-P150914_Detection_of_GW150914.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2016-02-11",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed pp. 061102-1–3, introduction and Observation; p. 061102-8 conclusion",
"note": "Supporting observation, detector-status and conclusion passages inspected; no raw-data reanalysis or full companion-paper audit.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"hensen-bell-preprint": {
"id": "hensen-bell-preprint",
"title": "Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km",
"author": "B. Hensen and colleagues",
"publisher": "arXiv author preprint",
"custodian": "arXiv author preprint",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.05949",
"publicationDate": "2015-08-24",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "pp. 1–2, test assumptions and experimental scheme; reported test statistics",
"note": "Supporting introduction, assumptions, setup caption and reported statistics inspected; remaining methods not independently reanalyzed.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"hensen-bell-crossmark": {
"id": "hensen-bell-crossmark",
"title": "Crossmark record: Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres",
"author": "Springer Nature / Crossref",
"publisher": "Crossmark",
"custodian": "Crossmark",
"url": "https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1038/nature15759",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Published Online, Published Print, Article History and Document is current",
"note": "Short date/status record inspected and rechecked October 11, 2026; it displayed current status with no update entries. This does not survey later Bell-test literature.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"cogitate-2025-paper": {
"id": "cogitate-2025-paper",
"title": "Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness",
"author": "Cogitate Consortium, Oscar Ferrante and colleagues",
"publisher": "Nature; full article in PubMed Central",
"custodian": "Nature; full article in PubMed Central",
"url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12137136/",
"publicationDate": "2025-04-30",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Abstract; experimental-design paragraphs; Discussion and limitations; Author contributions",
"note": "Design, discussion, limitations and contributions inspected; October 11 follow-up checked the PMC article header and searched notice terms. Raw data and complete supplements not audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"rubin-ford-1970-paper": {
"id": "rubin-ford-1970-paper",
"title": "Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions",
"author": "Vera C. Rubin and W. Kent Ford Jr.",
"publisher": "The Astrophysical Journal; NASA ADS scan",
"custodian": "The Astrophysical Journal; NASA ADS scan",
"url": "https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1970ApJ...159..379R",
"publicationDate": "1970-02",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed p. 379 title/abstract; pp. 399–400 noncircular motions and conclusions",
"note": "Abstract, relevant assumptions and conclusion inspected; the entire 29-page observation tables were not independently audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"rubin-carnegie-context": {
"id": "rubin-carnegie-context",
"title": "1978: Vera Rubin and Kent Ford Confirm the Existence of Dark Matter",
"author": "Carnegie Observatories",
"publisher": "Carnegie Science",
"custodian": "Carnegie Science",
"url": "https://cosmology.carnegiescience.edu/timeline/1978.html",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Paragraphs on Ford’s spectrograph and later galaxy sample",
"note": "Context paragraphs inspected. The page’s broad headline is not used as a sole-discovery or particle-identification claim.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"crispr-jinek-manuscript": {
"id": "crispr-jinek-manuscript",
"title": "A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity",
"author": "Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, Ines Fonfara, Michael Hauer, Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier",
"publisher": "Science; author manuscript hosted by UC Berkeley eScholarship",
"custodian": "Science; author manuscript hosted by UC Berkeley eScholarship",
"url": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt5nw7q1m7/qt5nw7q1m7.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2012-08-17",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Manuscript pp. 1–2 byline/mechanism; pp. 5–6 chimeric-guide tests and conclusions",
"note": "Specific mechanism, engineered-guide, conclusion and byline passages inspected; supplementary experiments not comprehensively reviewed.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"crispr-pubmed-dates": {
"id": "crispr-pubmed-dates",
"title": "A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity — PubMed record",
"author": "National Library of Medicine",
"publisher": "PubMed",
"custodian": "PubMed",
"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22745249/?dopt=Abstract",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Citation immediately above title",
"note": "Citation dates and author list inspected. October 11 follow-up searches of the complete retrieved PubMed record found no Erratum or Correction match; that does not establish complete publisher update status.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"crispr-pmc-manuscript-record": {
"id": "crispr-pmc-manuscript-record",
"title": "A programmable dual RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity — PMC author manuscript and supplement link",
"author": "Martin Jinek and colleagues",
"publisher": "Science author manuscript deposited in PubMed Central",
"custodian": "Science author manuscript deposited in PubMed Central",
"url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6286148/",
"publicationDate": "2012-06-28",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Article notes and Supplementary Material section, especially lines 211–215",
"note": "Repository provenance and supplement link inspected during the October 11 correction check. The supplement itself was not read.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"webb-first-science-release": {
"id": "webb-first-science-release",
"title": "NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe",
"author": "NASA",
"publisher": "NASA",
"custodian": "NASA",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-reveals-webb-telescopes-first-images-of-unseen-universe/",
"publicationDate": "2022-07-12",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Opening release; target descriptions; science-operations, launch, commissioning and partnership paragraphs",
"note": "Selected release passages inspected; not the observing proposals, calibration archive or subsequent discovery literature.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"webb-first-deep-field": {
"id": "webb-first-deep-field",
"title": "NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet",
"author": "NASA Webb Mission Team",
"publisher": "NASA Science",
"custodian": "NASA Science",
"url": "https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet/",
"publicationDate": "2022-07-12",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Opening bullets, lines 314–317; displayed article date and page-update metadata",
"note": "Opening date-bearing bullets and surrounding release text inspected. The page displays July 12, 2022 publication and September 21, 2026 update; this check does not infer what changed in that update.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"socorro-fbi-memoranda": {
"id": "socorro-fbi-memoranda",
"title": "Unidentified Flying Object, Socorro, New Mexico, April 24, 1964 — FBI memoranda",
"author": "Federal Bureau of Investigation, Albuquerque; observations of Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes Jr.",
"publisher": "Federal Bureau of Investigation; scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"custodian": "Federal Bureau of Investigation; scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"url": "https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/paranormal/FBI-UFO-Socorro-fbi1.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PDF pp. 14–16 (zero-based pages 13–15), May 8 memoranda; witness account continues pp. 17–26.",
"note": "May 8 memoranda describe observations and interviews from April 24–25; the PDF contains additional correspondence. Read extracted text of Byrnes’s site observations, the interview provenance, and the opening witness account. Not a complete audit of every memorandum or original physical exhibit.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"documentDate": "1964-05-08"
},
"socorro-usaf-summary-cufos": {
"id": "socorro-usaf-summary-cufos",
"title": "Unidentified Flying Object Report: Socorro, New Mexico, 24 April 1964",
"author": "United States Air Force",
"publisher": "United States Air Force; historical case-file scan hosted by CUFOS",
"custodian": "United States Air Force; historical case-file scan hosted by CUFOS",
"url": "https://cufos.org/PDFs/1965_04_24_Socorro/1964_04_24_US_NM_Socorro_CUFOS_Zamora_Files1&4R.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PDF pp. 1–2, report headed 'UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT'; pp. 3–4, Zamora statement.",
"note": "The opening report concerns April 24, 1964; no publication day is visible on its two pages. Read the two-page Air Force summary and opening witness statement; later correspondence in the 78-page compilation was not comprehensively inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"quintanilla-investigation-ufos": {
"id": "quintanilla-investigation-ufos",
"title": "The Investigation of UFO’s",
"author": "Hector Quintanilla Jr.",
"publisher": "Studies in Intelligence / Central Intelligence Agency",
"custodian": "Studies in Intelligence / Central Intelligence Agency",
"url": "https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Investigation-of-UFOs.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1966",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "PDF pp. 15–19, sections 'Policeman’s Report' and 'Diagnosis: Unsolved'; p. 14 classification definition.",
"note": "Original 1966 attribution is corroborated by CUFOS’s case bibliography; digital text ends with a May 8, 2007 posting date. The original issue cover was not inspected. Read the Socorro discussion, classification, investigative results and conclusions. The article’s other historical examples were not fact-checked.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"westall-journal-crops": {
"id": "westall-journal-crops",
"title": "Flying Saucer Mystery: School Silent; Who Were 5 Pilots? — Dandenong Journal excerpts",
"author": null,
"publisher": "The Dandenong Journal; reproductions by State Library Victoria",
"custodian": "The Dandenong Journal; reproductions by State Library Victoria",
"url": "https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Westall-Dandy-Journal.png",
"publicationDate": "1966-04-14",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"locator": "April 14 front-page masthead, headline and opening paragraphs; April 21 front-page cropped item with student drawing.",
"note": "Downloaded and visually inspected both reproduced crops. The complete newspaper issues and the remainder of the April 14 article were not inspected.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"westall-state-library": {
"id": "westall-state-library",
"title": "Strange lights in the sky: The Westall UFO event, 1966",
"author": "Terri Berends",
"publisher": "State Library Victoria",
"custodian": "State Library Victoria",
"url": "https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/strange-lights-in-the-sky-the-westall-ufo-event-1966/",
"publicationDate": "2024-04-06",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Main article and references 2–6; newspaper-image captions.",
"note": "Read article and references, including the April 21 Greenwood account, the April 7 Age balloon suggestion and limits of the contemporary investigation. The linked books and full newspapers were not read.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"westall-kingston-ryan": {
"id": "westall-kingston-ryan",
"title": "An Ongoing Mystery: The Westall Flying Saucer Incident",
"author": "Shane L. J. Ryan",
"publisher": "Kingston Local History / City of Kingston",
"custodian": "Kingston Local History / City of Kingston",
"url": "https://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/articles/528",
"publicationDate": "2012-06-11",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Paragraphs on 1966 reporting, missing television film and research-society notes; 1967 McDonald interviews; 2011 reunion.",
"note": "Read as Ryan’s retrospective account, including its reliance on later memories. Its affirmative craft descriptions and cover-up implications were not adopted as established facts.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"magonia-bibliography-cinii": {
"id": "magonia-bibliography-cinii",
"title": "Passport to Magonia: on UFOs, folklore, and parallel worlds — NCID BB21909843",
"author": "National Institute of Informatics bibliographic record",
"publisher": "CiNii Books / National Institute of Informatics, Japan",
"custodian": "CiNii Books / National Institute of Informatics, Japan",
"url": "https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB21909843",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Bibliographic details and note 'Originally published: Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1969'.",
"note": "Read the catalogue record for the 1993 edition and its explicit original-publication note; no exact 1969 publication month or day is established.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"magonia-selected-text": {
"id": "magonia-selected-text",
"title": "Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers — digitized text",
"author": "Jacques Vallée",
"publisher": "H. Regnery Co. (original work); digitized copy hosted by Project Avalon",
"custodian": "H. Regnery Co. (original work); digitized copy hosted by Project Avalon",
"url": "https://projectavalon.net/lib/Jacques%20Vallee%20-%20Passport%20to%20Magonia.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Printed pp. 149 and 156–160, 'The Functioning Lie' and concluding discussion; appendix p. 179.",
"note": "Original work dates to 1969; this scan’s precise edition was not established from a title or copyright page. Read selected passages on narrative parallels, cultural variation, research methods and speculative alternatives. Did not independently authenticate the catalogue’s individual historical cases.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"cufos-history": {
"id": "cufos-history",
"title": "About Us — History",
"author": "Center for UFO Studies",
"publisher": "Center for UFO Studies",
"custodian": "Center for UFO Studies",
"url": "https://cufos.org/about-us/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "History paragraphs on Hynek, The UFO Experience (1972), CUFOS founding (1973), and stated activities.",
"note": "Read the institution’s account of its founding and purpose. This was not a review of its individual scientific claims or a check of incorporation records.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"jal-faa-interview-notes": {
"id": "jal-faa-interview-notes",
"title": "FAA Form 1600-32-1 — notes of interviews with the crew of JAL Flight 1628",
"author": "Ronald E. Mickle and James S. Derry",
"publisher": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-005 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"custodian": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-005 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/jal1628/733667-001-005.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PDF pp. 2–5, Mickle and Derry interview notes.",
"note": "The forms state interviews on November 17, 1986; public release date is not assigned to the forms. Read the two agents’ notes, including named crew, route, joint-interview setting and differing descriptions of what was visually seen. Drawings and later individual interviews were not comprehensively audited.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"jal-faa-public-affairs": {
"id": "jal-faa-public-affairs",
"title": "FAA releases documents on reported UFO sighting last November; Lack of 'Scientific' Investigation",
"author": "FAA Alaskan Region, Office of Public Affairs; contact Paul Steucke",
"publisher": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-024 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"custodian": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-024 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/jal1628/733667-001-024.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1987-03-05",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PDF p. 4, March 5 release no. 87-09; p. 7, 'Lack of Scientific Investigation'; pp. 2–3, December 30, 1986 crew-note release.",
"note": "Read the JAL-specific release and explicit inquiry limits. Separate Alaska Airlines and January 1987 sightings in the packet are not conflated with JAL 1628.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"jal-faa-split-return": {
"id": "jal-faa-split-return",
"title": "Explanation of split beacon target / Analysis of Uncorrelated Primary and Beacon Targets",
"author": "FAA Alaskan Region; David F. Morse and Dennis Simantel; public explanation by Paul Steucke",
"publisher": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-023 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"custodian": "Federal Aviation Administration; NARA file 733667-001-023 scan hosted by The Black Vault",
"url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/jal1628/733667-001-023.pdf",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PDF pp. 2–4, public explanation, diagram labels and February 27 memorandum.",
"note": "Packet includes February 27, 1987 memorandum and March 5, 1987 public explanation. Read the FAA’s explanation and memorandum provenance; no independent numerical reanalysis of the original radar dataset was performed.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"belgian-baf-summary-transcription": {
"id": "belgian-baf-summary-transcription",
"title": "Summary Report on Observations 30–31 March 1990",
"author": "W. De Brouwer, Belgian Air Force",
"publisher": "Belgian Air Force; English transcription hosted by Patrick Gross",
"custodian": "Belgian Air Force; English transcription hosted by Patrick Gross",
"url": "https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/belrap02.htm",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Background paragraphs 1–3; events 4–11, especially paragraph 8; conclusions 12.",
"note": "Host identifies this as the summary underlying De Brouwer’s July 11, 1990 briefing; the original signed sheet was not inspected. Read full short transcription. Used for the attributed scramble, radar locks and no pilot visual contact, not as independent validation of target speed or origin.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"documentDate": "1990-07-11"
},
"belgian-uk-archive-guide": {
"id": "belgian-uk-archive-guide",
"title": "Highlights guide — UFO files released August 2009",
"author": "The National Archives",
"publisher": "The National Archives, United Kingdom",
"custodian": "The National Archives, United Kingdom",
"url": "https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/aug-2009-highlights-guide.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2009-08",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "PDF p. 4, 'UFOs reported over Belgium — 1989–1990'; DEFE 24/1970 and DEFE 24/1960 references.",
"note": "Read guide’s Belgian section. Referenced underlying DEFE file pages were not downloaded or read.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"belgian-meessen-1991": {
"id": "belgian-meessen-1991",
"title": "The Belgian sightings",
"author": "Auguste Meessen; translated by Andrea Donderi, Mark Rodeghier and W. D. Milner",
"publisher": "International UFO Reporter, May/June 1991; CUFOS",
"custodian": "International UFO Reporter, May/June 1991; CUFOS",
"url": "https://cufos.org/PDFs/cases/BelgianSightings.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1991-05",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "PDF pp. 1–3 (printed IUR pp. 4–6): headnote, ground investigations, radar access and 'The fundamental results'.",
"note": "May/June 1991 issue; headnote says first published in Inforespace, November 1990. Read opening sections on November 29 reports, the author’s investigation and radar limitations. Later case narratives in the article were not comprehensively checked.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"petit-rechain-reuters-2011": {
"id": "petit-rechain-reuters-2011",
"title": "Hit UFO image was polystyrene, says forger",
"author": "Reuters",
"publisher": "Reuters via Emirates 24|7",
"custodian": "Reuters via Emirates 24|7",
"url": "https://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/hit-ufo-image-was-polystyrene-says-forger-2011-07-28-1.410128",
"publicationDate": "2011-07-28",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"locator": "Entire short article, especially the model account and identification of the Petit-Rechain photograph.",
"note": "Read complete short Reuters republication. The original RTL broadcast was not watched; use this as reporting of the photographer’s admission, not as analysis of every Belgian sighting.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ariel-hind-afrinews-11": {
"id": "ariel-hind-afrinews-11",
"title": "The Children of Ariel School; The Visit of John Mack, M.D. to Africa",
"author": "Cynthia Hind",
"publisher": "UFO Afrinews, no. 11, February 1995; scan held by Archives for the Unexplained",
"custodian": "UFO Afrinews, no. 11, February 1995; scan held by Archives for the Unexplained",
"url": "https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/Zimbabwe/Afrinews%20(Cynthia%20Hind)/UFO%20AFRINEWS%20-%20No%2011.pdf",
"publicationDate": "1995-02",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Cover and masthead; printed pp. 19–22 and 24–25 (PDF pages 12–15).",
"note": "Downloaded original issue; read extracted text and visually inspected printed pp. 19–21. Inspected narrative of the school incident, differences among drawings, named headmaster and later Mack/Callimanopulos visit; not the complete interview or drawing archive.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"ariel-callimanopulos-1995": {
"id": "ariel-callimanopulos-1995",
"title": "Exploring African and Other Alien Encounters",
"author": "Dominique Callimanopulos",
"publisher": "CenterPiece, Spring/Summer 1995, pp. 10–11; republished by the John E. Mack Institute",
"custodian": "CenterPiece, Spring/Summer 1995, pp. 10–11; republished by the John E. Mack Institute",
"url": "https://johnemackinstitute.org/1995/03/exploring-african-and-other-alien-encounters/",
"publicationDate": "1995",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"locator": "Opening Ariel School paragraphs and original-publication/copyright note.",
"note": "Article itself identifies Spring/Summer 1995 publication; the March web permalink is not used as an exact original publication date. Read the opening account of the two-day, twelve-child interview and the author’s interpretive framing. Did not inspect the linked audio or original video masters.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-nuforc-1997": {
"id": "phoenix-nuforc-1997",
"title": "Phoenix Lights: preliminary report",
"publisher": "National UFO Reporting Center",
"url": "https://nuforc.org/phoenix/",
"publicationDate": "1997-08-13",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"author": "Peter Davenport / NUFORC",
"custodian": "National UFO Reporting Center",
"locator": "Introductory caution and sequence of reports, approximately 8:15–8:45 p.m.; preliminary interpretation",
"note": "Preliminary compilation from reports before written submissions; records varying witness descriptions, not independently measured flight behavior.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-ortega-1997": {
"id": "phoenix-ortega-1997",
"title": "The Great UFO Cover-up",
"publisher": "Phoenix New Times",
"url": "https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-great-ufo-cover-up-6422930/",
"publicationDate": "1997-06-26",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"author": "Tony Ortega",
"custodian": "Phoenix New Times",
"locator": "Opening witness comparisons; Mitch and Linda Stanley interviews; radar discussion",
"note": "Contemporaneous reporting inspected in the original publisher HTML. Stanley’s telescope account is an attributed observation; his mother did not look through the telescope.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-ortega-1998": {
"id": "phoenix-ortega-1998",
"title": "The Hack and the Quack",
"publisher": "Phoenix New Times",
"url": "https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-hack-and-the-quack-6445593/",
"publicationDate": "1998-03-05",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"author": "Tony Ortega",
"custodian": "Phoenix New Times",
"locator": "Passages beginning About 8:30; Although hundreds; Within days; But questions remain",
"note": "1998 investigation read for the two sets of lights, military statements and video-analysis discussion. Raw videos and flight logs were not independently examined.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-mcgaha-nickell-2015": {
"id": "phoenix-mcgaha-nickell-2015",
"title": "Alien Lights? At Phoenix, Stephenville, and Elsewhere: A Postmortem",
"publisher": "Skeptical Inquirer",
"url": "https://skepticalinquirer.org/2015/03/alien-lights-at-phoenix-stephenville-and-elsewhere-a-postmortem/",
"publicationDate": "2015-03",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "original-reporting",
"author": "James McGaha and Joe Nickell",
"custodian": "Skeptical Inquirer",
"locator": "Phoenix Lightshow I and II; notes 1–2",
"note": "Later investigative assessment, including McGaha’s account of interviewing a flare-flight leader. It also relies on Ortega; those passages are not independent corroboration.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-film-history": {
"id": "phoenix-film-history",
"title": "The Phoenix Lights documentary: production history and editions",
"publisher": "Phoenix Lights Network",
"url": "https://thephoenixlights.net/documentary/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "participant-account",
"author": "Phoenix Lights Network / Lynne D. Kitei",
"custodian": "Phoenix Lights Network",
"locator": "Filmmakers, production history, March 13, 2005 premiere and expanded 2017 edition",
"note": "Producer’s written history inspected. The film and its transcript were not viewed or read; no selected video is added.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"phoenix-survey-2026": {
"id": "phoenix-survey-2026",
"title": "Prosocial Attitude Change in Response to an Anomalous Mass Sighting Event: The Phoenix Lights",
"publisher": "Journal of Scientific Exploration",
"url": "https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/3659",
"publicationDate": "2026-03-26",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "primary",
"author": "Russ Scalpone, Lynne D. Kitei and Brad Evans",
"custodian": "Journal of Scientific Exploration",
"locator": "Publisher abstract and publication metadata only",
"note": "Partial inspection: abstract describes an internet questionnaire of 117 respondents. Full methods, sampling and analyses were not reviewed; no causal effect or physical identification is inferred.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"nps-atomic-bomb-survivors": {
"id": "nps-atomic-bomb-survivors",
"title": "Atomic Bomb Survivors",
"author": "National Park Service",
"publisher": "Manhattan Project National Historical Park",
"custodian": "Manhattan Project National Historical Park",
"url": "https://www.nps.gov/mapr/learn/historyculture/atomic-bomb-survivors.htm",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "archival-history",
"locator": "Opening chronology and paragraphs on hibakusha and discrimination; page last updated April 17, 2025",
"note": "Opening historical passages read; linked survivor interviews were not listened to.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"luminet-lemaitre-editorial": {
"id": "luminet-lemaitre-editorial",
"title": "Editorial note on Lemaître’s 1927 expanding-universe paper",
"author": "Jean-Pierre Luminet",
"publisher": "Original Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles; General Relativity and Gravitation editorial note on arXiv",
"custodian": "Original Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles; General Relativity and Gravitation editorial note on arXiv",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.6470",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-11",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Editorial PDF pp. 2–3, antecedent observations and institutional background",
"note": "Scholarly editorial accompanying the translated primary paper. Same PDF and origin group: not an independent observation. The arXiv deposit is May 28, 2013; the displayed later PDF header is not treated as a verified new publication date.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": "2013-05-28"
},
"centers-aec-records-20261012": {
"id": "centers-aec-records-20261012",
"title": "Records of the Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/326.html/1000",
"publisher": "U.S. National Archives",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "326.1 and 326.2",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "U.S. National Archives"
},
"centers-aerospace-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-aerospace-history-20261012",
"title": "2020 Annual Report",
"url": "https://aerospace.org/annual-report/2020-annual-report",
"publisher": "The Aerospace Corporation",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2020",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "60th-anniversary history paragraph",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "The Aerospace Corporation"
},
"centers-argonne-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-argonne-history-20261012",
"title": "Those early days as we remember them",
"url": "https://www.ne.anl.gov/About/early-days/",
"publisher": "Argonne National Laboratory",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "From the Metallurgical Laboratory to Argonne National Laboratory",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "Argonne National Laboratory"
},
"centers-arlis-about-20261012": {
"id": "centers-arlis-about-20261012",
"title": "About",
"url": "https://www.arlis.umd.edu/about",
"publisher": "University of Maryland ARLIS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "The UARC for Intelligence & Security",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "University of Maryland ARLIS"
},
"centers-battelle-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-battelle-history-20261012",
"title": "If a year is measured in 525,600 minutes, then Battelle is at 47 million minutes and counting",
"url": "https://inside.battelle.org/blog-details/if-a-year-is-measured-in-525-600-minutes-then-battelle-is-at-47-million-minutes-and-counting",
"publisher": "Battelle",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Foundational Age; Industrial Atomic Age",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "Battelle"
},
"centers-brookhaven-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-brookhaven-history-20261012",
"title": "75th Anniversary: Timeline of Discovery",
"url": "https://www.bnl.gov/75/timeline.php",
"publisher": "Brookhaven National Laboratory",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "1947 Transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "Brookhaven National Laboratory"
},
"centers-cna-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-cna-history-20261012",
"title": "A Brief History of CNA",
"url": "https://www.cna.org/about-us/history",
"publisher": "CNA",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Antisubmarine Operations in World War II; The analytical lessons of war; Cold War section",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "CNA"
},
"centers-doe-corporate-2024-20261012": {
"id": "centers-doe-corporate-2024-20261012",
"title": "The State of the DOE National Laboratories: 2024 Corporate Overview",
"url": "https://www.energy.gov/documents/2024-corporate-overview",
"publisher": "U.S. Department of Energy",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2024",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "PDF p. 52 management model; p. 54 acronym definitions; lab profiles pp. 55–71",
"note": "Downloaded 15.8 MB PDF after web-reader size limit; text extraction inspected for management model and all 17 laboratory profile facts. No audit of all financial data.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "U.S. Department of Energy"
},
"centers-doe-history-20261012": {
"id": "centers-doe-history-20261012",
"title": "A Brief History of the Department of Energy",
"url": "https://www.energy.gov/lm/brief-history-department-energy",
"publisher": "U.S. Department of Energy",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "DOE’s Two Programmatic Traditions; Energy Crisis and DOE",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "U.S. Department of Energy"
},
"centers-erda-records-20261012": {
"id": "centers-erda-records-20261012",
"title": "Records of the Energy Research and Development Administration",
"url": "https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/430.html",
"publisher": "U.S. National Archives",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "430.1 Administrative History",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "U.S. National Archives"
},
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"id": "centers-far-35017-20261012",
"title": "FAR 35.017: Federally Funded Research and Development Centers",
"url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/35.017",
"publisher": "General Services Administration, Acquisition.gov",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "35.017(a)(1)–(4) and (b)",
"note": "Entire substantive section read. Page displays FAC 2026-01 effective March 13, 2026; that is the displayed FAR compilation version, not an inferred original effective date of every clause.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "General Services Administration, Acquisition.gov"
},
"centers-far-establishing-20261012": {
"id": "centers-far-establishing-20261012",
"title": "FAR 35.017-2: Establishing or changing an FFRDC",
"url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/35.017-2",
"publisher": "General Services Administration, Acquisition.gov",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "35.017-2(a)–(j)",
"note": "Supporting passages named in locator inspected; not a complete audit of linked records.",
"author": null,
"provenance": "General Services Administration, Acquisition.gov"
},
"centers-far-master-list-20261012": {
"id": "centers-far-master-list-20261012",
"title": "FAR 35.017-6: Master list of FFRDCs",
"url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/35.017-6",
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"documentDate": "1961-09-06",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Original letter, paragraphs 1–10; editorial footnote 2",
"note": "Full letter and the co-directorship caveat read.",
"author": "Roswell Gilpatric; concurrence by C. P. Cabell",
"provenance": "U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian"
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"id": "space-nro-1992-20261012",
"title": "Memorandum for Correspondents No. 264-M",
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"publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense; scan preserved by National Security Archive",
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"documentDate": "1992-09-18",
"publicReleasedAt": "1992-09-18",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Single-page original memorandum",
"note": "Downloaded and visually inspected entire scanned page.",
"author": "Department of Defense",
"provenance": "U.S. Department of Defense; scan preserved by National Security Archive"
},
"space-nro-almanac-20261012": {
"id": "space-nro-almanac-20261012",
"title": "National Reconnaissance Office Almanac, second edition",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo213508/pdf/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo213508.pdf",
"publisher": "NRO, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2016-01",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed pp. 5–8, 11–12 and 31–34; organizational/program chronology",
"note": "Relevant introductory program and organizational passages and dated chronology inspected. Final review also inspected printed pp. 31–34 for imagery declassification and program-material release distinctions.",
"author": "Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance",
"provenance": "NRO, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance"
},
"space-nro-history-20261012": {
"id": "space-nro-history-20261012",
"title": "The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years: A Brief History, second edition",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo247811/pdf/GOVPUB-D-PURL-gpo247811.pdf",
"publisher": "NRO, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2018-07",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed pp. 9, 13–14, 18–19; chronology pp. 41, 46–47",
"note": "Targeted text passages and chronology inspected, not entire volume.",
"author": "Bruce Berkowitz with Michael Suk",
"provenance": "NRO, Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance"
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"id": "space-nro-public-1971-20261012",
"title": "History of NRO Security Breaches",
"url": "https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19740107.pdf",
"publisher": "Central Intelligence Agency; scan preserved by National Security Archive",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "1974-01-07",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Pages 1–2, paragraph 2(a) and 2(b)",
"note": "Downloaded and visually inspected pages 1–2 of five-page redacted memorandum.",
"author": "Chief, Special Security Center",
"provenance": "Central Intelligence Agency; scan preserved by National Security Archive"
},
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"id": "space-nro-query-1973-20261012",
"title": "News Release Regarding the NRO",
"url": "https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/19731212.pdf",
"publisher": "Intelligence cable; scan preserved by National Security Archive",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "1973-12-12",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Two-page cable, paragraphs 1–2; date-time group 121936 Z DEC 73",
"note": "Downloaded and visually inspected both pages.",
"author": "Originator redacted",
"provenance": "Intelligence cable; scan preserved by National Security Archive"
},
"space-parcae-speech-20261012": {
"id": "space-parcae-speech-20261012",
"title": "Naval Research Lab Centennial: prepared remarks of Dr. Troy Meink, reproduced in S. Hrg. 119-321",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-119shrg63037/pdf/CHRG-119shrg63037.pdf",
"publisher": "National Reconnaissance Office; U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services/GPO reproduction",
"publicationDate": "2026",
"documentDate": "2023-09-28",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed hearing pp. 116–118 (PDF pp. 120–122); embedded speech pp. 1–3",
"note": "Downloaded PDF and visually inspected all three embedded prepared-speech pages; HTML omits the scanned material.",
"author": "Troy Meink, principal deputy director of NRO",
"provenance": "National Reconnaissance Office; U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services/GPO reproduction"
},
"space-parcs-20261012": {
"id": "space-parcs-20261012",
"title": "Cavalier AFS renamed as Space Force installation",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/402363/cavalier-afs-renamed-space-force-installation",
"publisher": "Space Base Delta1 via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2021-07-30",
"publicReleasedAt": "2021-08-03",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Radar/operator paragraphs, lines 89–99",
"note": "Relevant radar/operator and renaming text read.",
"author": "Dakota Carter",
"provenance": "Space Base Delta1 via DVIDS"
},
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"id": "space-pave-paws-20261012",
"title": "The 6 th Space Warning Squadron: Ever Aware",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/391866/6th-space-warning-squadron-ever-aware",
"publisher": "Space Base Delta2 via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2021-03-19",
"publicReleasedAt": "2021-03-19",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Mission paragraphs, lines 109–116",
"note": "Relevant mission and radar paragraphs inspected.",
"author": "Airman1st Class Joshua Crossman",
"provenance": "Space Base Delta2 via DVIDS"
},
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"id": "space-poppy-release-20261012",
"title": "POPPY Satellite Reconnaissance Program Recognized",
"url": "https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/documents/news/press/2005/2005-06.pdf",
"publisher": "National Reconnaissance Office",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2005-09-12",
"publicReleasedAt": "2005-09-12",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Press release, first page of five-page PDF",
"note": "Release text on first page inspected; attached photographs not required for claims.",
"author": "NRO public affairs",
"provenance": "National Reconnaissance Office"
},
"space-radar-context-20261012": {
"id": "space-radar-context-20261012",
"title": "Bringing innovation to the mission",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/printable/272064",
"publisher": "21st Space Wing via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2018-04-06",
"publicReleasedAt": "2018-04-06",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Full article, especially opening seven paragraphs",
"note": "Full article inspected.",
"author": "Robert Lingley",
"provenance": "21st Space Wing via DVIDS"
},
"space-samso-1979-henderson-20261012": {
"id": "space-samso-1979-henderson-20261012",
"title": "Major General Donald W. Henderson: official biography",
"url": "https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106796/donald-w-henderson/",
"publisher": "U.S. Air Force",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "1985-07",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Career paragraph beginning with July 1975; biography marked current as of July 1985",
"note": "Opened and read the relevant career paragraph and as-of statement.",
"author": "U.S. Air Force",
"provenance": "U.S. Air Force"
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"id": "space-samso-1979-hendricks-20261012",
"title": "Major General Gerald K. Hendricks: official biography",
"url": "https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106797/major-general-gerald-k-hendricks/",
"publisher": "U.S. Air Force",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "1980-11",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Opening mission paragraph and career paragraph beginning with July 1978; marked current as of November 1980",
"note": "Opened and read the mission, redesignation and as-of paragraphs.",
"author": "U.S. Air Force",
"provenance": "U.S. Air Force"
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"id": "space-sda-about-20261012",
"title": "About the Space Development Agency",
"url": "https://www.sda.mil/home/about-us/",
"publisher": "Space Development Agency",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": null,
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "About section, establishment and mission paragraphs",
"note": "Relevant establishment and architecture-mission text inspected as of the review date.",
"author": "Space Development Agency",
"provenance": "Space Development Agency"
},
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"id": "space-sda-transfer-20261012",
"title": "Space Development Agency Transfers to USSF",
"url": "https://www.sda.mil/space-development-agency-transfers-to-ussf/",
"publisher": "Space Development Agency / Secretary of Air Force public affairs",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2022-10-01",
"publicReleasedAt": "2022-10-01",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Opening announcement paragraphs",
"note": "Transfer date and organizational rationale inspected.",
"author": "Secretary of Air Force public affairs",
"provenance": "Space Development Agency / Secretary of Air Force public affairs"
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"id": "space-spacecom-1985-20261012",
"title": "Remarks at Activation of U.S. Space Command, in Selected Works of General John W. Vessey Jr.",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5-PURL-gpo59553/pdf/GOVPUB-D5-PURL-gpo59553.pdf",
"publisher": "Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff",
"publicationDate": "2008",
"documentDate": "1985-09-23",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed pp. 241–242, speech heading and opening",
"note": "Speech heading and relevant paragraphs read; not full collected volume.",
"author": "John W. Vessey Jr.; compilation published 2008",
"provenance": "Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff"
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"id": "space-spacecom-2002-20261012",
"title": "Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces hearing, 12 March 2003",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-108shrg87329/html/CHRG-108shrg87329.htm",
"publisher": "U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services/GPO",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2003-03-12",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "participant-account",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed p. 62, Ellis reply to Senator Sessions",
"note": "Relevant original testimony and hearing date inspected.",
"author": "Admiral James O. Ellis Jr., testimony",
"provenance": "U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services/GPO"
},
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"id": "space-spacecom-2019-20261012",
"title": "107 th hosts state partner Brazil for space development workshop",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/460237/107th-hosts-state-partner-brazil-space-development-workshop",
"publisher": "107th Attack Wing via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2023-12-18",
"publicReleasedAt": "2023-12-18",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Official image caption preceding main article",
"note": "Caption and relevant surrounding article inspected.",
"author": "1st Lt. Jason Carr",
"provenance": "107th Attack Wing via DVIDS"
},
"space-ssc-2021-20261012": {
"id": "space-ssc-2021-20261012",
"title": "SSC stands up, Guetlein takes command",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/403075/ssc-stands-up-guetlein-takes-command",
"publisher": "Space Systems Command via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2021-08-13",
"publicReleasedAt": "2021-08-13",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Opening and mission paragraphs",
"note": "Relevant stand-up and organizational paragraphs inspected.",
"author": "Chip Pons",
"provenance": "Space Systems Command via DVIDS"
},
"space-ssn-2023-20261012": {
"id": "space-ssn-2023-20261012",
"title": "Space Delta 2 supports VICTUS NOX mission",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/454559/space-delta-2-supports-victus-nox-mission",
"publisher": "Space Base Delta1 via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2023-09-28",
"publicReleasedAt": "2023-09-28",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Paragraphs describing 18 SDS, 20 SPSS, 19 SDS and the SSN",
"note": "Mission and network paragraphs inspected.",
"author": "Courtesy story",
"provenance": "Space Base Delta1 via DVIDS"
},
"space-usaf-space-history-20261012": {
"id": "space-usaf-space-history-20261012",
"title": "High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program",
"url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D301-PURL-gpo111285/pdf/GOVPUB-D301-PURL-gpo111285.pdf",
"publisher": "Air Force History and Museums Program",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "1997",
"publicReleasedAt": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "archival-history",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Printed pp. 71–74 (PDF pp. 77–80); title page",
"note": "Downloaded scan; title and pages 71–74 visually inspected.",
"author": "Curtis Peebles",
"provenance": "Air Force History and Museums Program"
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"space-ussf-2019-20261012": {
"id": "space-ussf-2019-20261012",
"title": "U.S. Space Force Fact Sheet",
"url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/356875/us-space-force-fact-sheet",
"publisher": "U.S. Space Force via DVIDS",
"publicationDate": null,
"documentDate": "2019-12-20",
"publicReleasedAt": "2019-12-20",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Establishment, mission and history sections",
"note": "Full relevant fact-sheet text inspected.",
"author": "U.S. Space Force public affairs",
"provenance": "U.S. Space Force via DVIDS"
},
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"id": "people-wiggins-statement-2025",
"title": "Statement of Alexandro C. Wiggins",
"publisher": "U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform",
"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Wiggins-Written-Statement.pdf",
"publicationDate": "2025-09-09",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "PDF pp. 1–4",
"note": "Freshly read PDF title, identity, duties and encounter narrative, pp. 1–4. This is personal testimony; no underlying sensor data were reanalyzed.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-dna-wilkins-stokes-wilson-catalogue": {
"id": "people-dna-wilkins-stokes-wilson-catalogue",
"title": "Molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids",
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"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13054693/",
"publicationDate": "1953-04-25",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "PubMed PMID 13054693; citation and authors",
"note": "Freshly read bibliographic record: author list, publication date, pages and DOI. No abstract is supplied; the full article was not freshly inspected.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"people-hensen-qutech-identity": {
"id": "people-hensen-qutech-identity",
"title": "Loophole-free Bell test – 2015",
"publisher": "QuTech, Hanson Lab",
"url": "https://qutech.nl/lab/hanson-lab/research-highlights/hanson-lab-loophole-free-bell-test/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Scientific article listing and caption naming Bas Hensen",
"note": "Freshly read laboratory publication listing and photograph caption. These connect the abbreviated author B. Hensen to the named first author Bas Hensen. The laboratory page prints a stray dot in the DOI; the correct DOI is taken from the arXiv record.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-abbott-gw150914-catalogue": {
"id": "people-abbott-gw150914-catalogue",
"title": "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger",
"publisher": "Missouri University of Science and Technology, Scholars’ Mine",
"url": "https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/phys_facwork/1838/",
"publicationDate": "2016",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Author list, abstract and recommended citation",
"note": "Freshly read institution-held author record and abstract. It explicitly connects Benjamin P. Abbott with B. P. Abbott in the citation for the same discovery paper. The catalog’s generic February 1 date is not used to override the original February 11 publication date.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"people-abbott-pennstate-identity": {
"id": "people-abbott-pennstate-identity",
"title": "Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger",
"publisher": "Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos",
"url": "https://igc.psu.edu/publications/abbott2016observation/",
"publicationDate": "2016",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Author line and journal citation",
"note": "Freshly read institutional publication record naming Benjamin P Abbott as the first-listed author of the exact 2016 discovery paper. Used to corroborate identity only.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"people-steele-2022-ntrs": {
"id": "people-steele-2022-ntrs",
"title": "Organic synthesis associated with serpentinization and carbonation on early Mars",
"publisher": "Science / AAAS; NASA Technical Reports Server",
"url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240003863",
"publicationDate": "2022",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Abstract, author list, publication fields and available download",
"note": "Freshly read original abstract, complete author list and citation in NTRS. The downloadable accepted manuscript was not read. The repository’s January 22 field differs from other journal indexing; only the unambiguous year is used.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-thomas-1959-catalogue": {
"id": "people-thomas-1959-catalogue",
"title": "The Gospel according to Thomas",
"publisher": "OCLC WorldCat; E.J. Brill / Harper & Brothers edition",
"url": "https://search.worldcat.org/fr/title/The-Gospel-according-to-Thomas/oclc/787635",
"publicationDate": "1959",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "OCLC 787635; authors, summary and imprint",
"note": "Freshly read catalog title, five editor identities, language, year and imprint. The original volume was not inspected.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"people-galileo-overview-2022": {
"id": "people-galileo-overview-2022",
"title": "Overview of the Galileo Project",
"publisher": "Abraham Loeb; arXiv / Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02479",
"publicationDate": "2022-08-02",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "arXiv abstract, author line, submission history and journal reference",
"note": "Freshly read author abstract and version metadata. Full paper not read. The abstract presents a proposed search program; it is not a report establishing extraterrestrial artifacts.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-riemann-geometry-translation": {
"id": "people-riemann-geometry-translation",
"title": "On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry",
"publisher": "Bernhard Riemann; W. K. Clifford translation; Trinity College Dublin",
"url": "https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Geom/WKCGeom.html",
"publicationDate": "1873",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary-mirror",
"locator": "Plan of the Investigation; sections I–III",
"note": "Freshly read the plan, manifold and metric discussion, and application-to-space conclusion in the English transcription. Formula derivations were not independently checked.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-riemann-geometry-editions": {
"id": "people-riemann-geometry-editions",
"title": "Ueber die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen",
"publisher": "Trinity College Dublin, History of Mathematics",
"url": "https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Geom/",
"publicationDate": null,
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Opening edition note",
"note": "Freshly read custodial edition note identifying Dedekind’s posthumous publication in 1867 and Clifford’s later translation.",
"verification": "metadata-and-preview-read"
},
"people-apollo11-debrief-1969": {
"id": "people-apollo11-debrief-1969",
"title": "Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing",
"publisher": "NASA Mission Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division",
"url": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/a11/a11tcdb.html",
"publicationDate": "1969-07-31",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Title, contents and section 1.0",
"note": "Freshly read title, date, contents and opening crew exchanges about suiting and equipment. This is a selected-passage inspection, not a reading of all two volumes.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-lee-yang-parity-1956": {
"id": "people-lee-yang-parity-1956",
"title": "Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions",
"publisher": "Physical Review / American Physical Society",
"url": "https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.104.254",
"publicationDate": "1956-10-01",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Abstract, byline, DOI and erratum notice",
"note": "Freshly read author abstract, byline, publication date and linked erratum notice. The original article and 1957 erratum text were not freshly read.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
},
"people-hilbert-ackermann-catalogue": {
"id": "people-hilbert-ackermann-catalogue",
"title": "Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik",
"publisher": "Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie; Julius Springer edition",
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"title": "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory",
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"title": "The Flying Saucers are Real",
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"title": "UChicago professor Hannes Bernien wins International Quantum Technology Young Scientist Award",
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"title": "Howard Percy Robertson",
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"title": "The Fall of Parity Photo Gallery with Short Biographies",
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"url": "https://www.nist.gov/pml/fall-parity/fall-parity-photo-gallery-short-biographies",
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"title": "The Viking biological investigation - General aspects",
"publisher": "NASA Technical Reports Server; Journal of Geophysical Research",
"url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19780027542",
"publicationDate": "1977-09-30",
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"note": "Complete NTRS catalogue record and abstract read; authorship H. P. Klein, 1977 publication and review of experiment assumptions. No downloadable full text at this record.",
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"title": "Viking labeled release biology experiment - Interim results",
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"url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770033065",
"publicationDate": "1976-12-17",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Complete NTRS catalogue record and abstract read; Levin/Straat authorship, 1976 date and stated inability to conclude whether life existed. No downloadable full text at this record.",
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},
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"title": "Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "primary",
"locator": "Faculty biography read for training, sleep/consciousness research and development of integrated information theory. The institution’s advocacy for its theory is not independent validation.",
"note": "Faculty biography read for training, sleep/consciousness research and development of integrated information theory. The institution’s advocacy for its theory is not independent validation.",
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},
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"title": "Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory",
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"note": "First two reprint pages read: byline, original/reprint dates, synopsis and scope. The mathematical derivations and all engineering cases were not audited.",
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"title": "New York Times, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean",
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"note": "Complete short article listing read for online headline, three-author byline and December 16, 2017 date; underlying NYT link failed in web retrieval.",
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"title": "Real U.F.O.s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know",
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"title": "On a Diffuse Reflection of the α-Particles",
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"locator": "Four-page transcription read for byline, measurement method, backward scattering, material/thickness comparisons and acknowledgment of Rutherford. Raw counts and transcription against original facsimile not independently checked.",
"note": "Four-page transcription read for byline, measurement method, backward scattering, material/thickness comparisons and acknowledgment of Rutherford. Raw counts and transcription against original facsimile not independently checked.",
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"id": "people-weyl-ias-20261012",
"title": "Hermann Weyl",
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"note": "Scholar biography and faculty/emeritus date fields; no survey of his complete research output.",
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"title": "The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers",
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"id": "people-hynek-books-20261012",
"title": "Recommended Books",
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"locator": "Entries for Hynek’s 1972 and 1977 books, including the descriptions of scope; recommendations are the institution’s judgments.",
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"id": "people-nuccetelli-testimony-2025",
"title": "Written testimony of Jeffrey Nuccetelli",
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"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nuccetelli-Written-Testimony.pdf",
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"title": "Testimony of Joe Spielberger, Senior Policy Counsel, Project On Government Oversight",
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"url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Spielberger-Written-Testimony.pdf",
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"note": "Title, dated heading and first three pages on whistleblower protection, national-security disclosure, retaliation and enforcement read; five-page statement not exhaustively audited.",
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"title": "John C Mather",
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"title": "Nobel Lecture: From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and beyond",
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"note": "Author, date, DOI, complete abstract and free-to-read indicator inspected; article body and underlying COBE data not independently audited.",
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"note": "Book descriptions, Mack’s own statement about Abduction, publisher information and edition-history passages for Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos read; complete books not read.",
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"title": "Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing",
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"url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Mind_Trek.html?id=PEvuAAAAMAAJ",
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"title": "McMoneagle, Joseph | Mind Trek",
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"title": "Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position",
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"url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980227091/downloads/19980227091.pdf",
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"note": "Cover, byline, September 1960 date, summary and introduction (PDF pages 1 and 3–4) read; equations and computed examples were not independently reproduced.",
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"title": "The search for organic substances and inorganic volatile compounds in the surface of Mars",
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"url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19780027538",
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"title": "What does it mean to be human?",
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"id": "people-russell-sun-1929-catalog",
"title": "On the Composition of the Sun’s Atmosphere",
"publisher": "National Diet Library / CiNii / Crossref catalogue",
"url": "https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/books/R100000136-I1361137044197714048",
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"locator": "Catalogue author, exact title, journal, July 1929 date and DOI fields inspected; no full article or abstract was available in this record.",
"note": "Catalogue author, exact title, journal, July 1929 date and DOI fields inspected; no full article or abstract was available in this record.",
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"id": "people-robinson-nag-hammadi-1977-catalog",
"title": "The Nag Hammadi Library in English",
"publisher": "Google Books; Harper & Row edition",
"url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Nag_Hammadi_Library_in_English.html?id=EgwNRQAACAAJ",
"publicationDate": "1977",
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"note": "French supporting passages read, despite English-path URL. No claim that one stone or one person alone recovered every reading.",
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"author": "Jean-François Champollion",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "Publisher note: March 13, 2013 discovery, collaboration with Mark Lehner, book metadata and Tallet’s role",
"note": "Publisher description, not full book; some promotional phrasing is not adopted.",
"author": "Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner",
"custodian": "Sorbonne Université"
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"locator": "Selected transcript sections: workers’ settlement, orientation hypotheses, Merer’s deliveries and void interpretations",
"note": "Transcript passages inspected; episode not watched. Video marked unavailable during retrieval. Proposed alignment methods are hypotheses, not proven construction records.",
"author": null,
"custodian": "PBS / NOVA"
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"title": "Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons",
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"locator": "Abstract, submission history and related DOI 10.1038/nature24647",
"note": "Accessible author preprint abstract inspected; complete paper and raw detector data not reanalyzed. arXiv v1 submitted November 5, 2017.",
"author": "Kunihiro Morishima and collaborators",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read",
"locator": "1832 Counting section: dot/bar notation and a zero sign; 1952 and 1973 milestone sections",
"note": "Explanatory chronology inspected. Its 1958 heading for Proskouriakoff differs from the 1960 publication in scholarly history; scholarly publication dating takes precedence.",
"author": "Rima Chaddha",
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"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "1831: Faraday describes electro-magnetic induction",
"publisher": "Computer History Museum",
"url": "https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/faraday-describes-electro-magnetic-induction/",
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"kind": "scholarship",
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"title": "Nuclear science helps prove earliest Aboriginal occupation",
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"url": "https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/nuclear-science-helps-prove-earliest-aboriginal-occupation",
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"locator": "Opening paragraphs and dating-method discussion",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies",
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"kind": "scholarship",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Humans Change the World",
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"url": "https://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/humans-change-world",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "The Turning Point; Benefits and Costs of Our Success",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/es/essays/the-origins-of-writing",
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"kind": "scholarship",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Central Themes for a Unit on South Asia",
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"url": "https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/ct_south.htm",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "The Era of Emergent Polities: Mauryan Empire and Ashoka paragraphs",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Traditional Views of Confucius: Analects compilation, excavated manuscripts and fixing in the second century BCE",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"url": "https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/songdynasty-module/confucian-neo.html",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
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"locator": "Four Books; Zhu Xi; Neo-Confucianism paragraphs",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Muhammad: The Messenger of God",
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"url": "https://pluralism.org/muhammad-the-messenger-of-god",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "The Birth of Islam",
"publisher": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Into Remote Oceania: Lapita people",
"publisher": "Te Ara — The Encyclopedia of New Zealand; Geoff Irwin",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
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"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"title": "Western and Central Sudan, 1000–1400 A.D.",
"publisher": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
"url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/ru/toah/ht/07/afu.html",
"publicationDate": "2001-10",
"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Overview; Timbuktu c.1100; Mansa Musa 1312/1324–25 paragraphs",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"essential-met-sahel": {
"id": "essential-met-sahel",
"title": "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara — Inside the Exhibition",
"publisher": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
"url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/fr/exhibitions/sahel-art-empire-sahara/inside-the-exhibition",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
"kind": "scholarship",
"locator": "Religion; Ancient Mali; Archaeology sections",
"note": "Supports only the claims listed here; no comprehensive source or literature audit is implied.",
"verification": "supporting-text-read"
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"essential-campop-black-death": {
"id": "essential-campop-black-death",
"title": "When we don’t have a cure or a vaccine, what works?",
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"accessedDate": "2026-10-12",
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"union-banking-vesting"
],
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]
}
],
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"culture"
],
"relevance": "He appears in wartime business history, not as a documented UFO investigator or program participant.",
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{
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]
}
],
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"relation": "primary-record"
}
],
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"attribution": "Unknown photographer. Public domain (Commons file-specific copyright declaration). Via Wikimedia Commons.",
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}
}
},
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"BBH"
],
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],
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]
}
]
},
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"UBC"
],
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"union-banking-vesting"
],
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{
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"New York corporation whose capital stock was covered by Vesting Order 248."
]
}
]
},
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"Alien Property Custodian",
"OAP",
"APC"
],
"type": "organization",
"description": "Wartime property authority that issued the Union Banking vesting order. “Alien” here concerns nationality, not extraterrestrial origin.",
"eventIds": [
"union-banking-vesting",
"tesla-papers-review"
],
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{
"sourceId": "ubc-order",
"supports": [
"Wartime property authority that issued the Union Banking vesting order. “Alien” here concerns nationality, not extraterrestrial origin."
]
}
]
},
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"id": "donovan",
"name": "William J. Donovan",
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"William Donovan",
"Wild Bill Donovan",
"General Donovan"
],
"type": "person",
"description": "William J. Donovan is associated with the wartime leadership of the Office of Strategic Services. He also appears in a 1952 State Department memorandum that identifies his law firm as representing the World Commerce Corporation in a proposed transaction. These are two documented institutional connections; the legal representation does not itself establish ownership or a covert operational assignment.",
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"oss-established",
"wcc-donovan-memo"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "wcc-memo-v2",
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"Associated with OSS leadership; a 1952 State memo identifies his law firm as WCC’s representative."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "oss-history",
"supports": [
"OSS leadership context"
]
}
],
"role": "OSS leader and lawyer",
"personProfile": {
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"roleGroups": [
"government"
],
"relevance": "He connects the history of the U.S. intelligence system with a specific later commercial representation record.",
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{
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"oss-history"
]
},
{
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"wcc-memo-v2"
]
}
],
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{
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"relation": "primary-record"
}
],
"verifiedOn": "2026-10-12",
"verificationScope": "Reused prior inspected source evidence, limited to the recorded review scopes. No fresh full-source reread in this person-profile pass.",
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"width": 320,
"height": 400,
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}
}
},
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"WCC"
],
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"wcc-donovan-memo"
],
"sources": [
{
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"Business identified in the April 1952 State memorandum; exact incorporation date remains unverified here."
]
}
]
},
{
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"OSS"
],
"type": "organization",
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"oss-established",
"oss-abolition-ordered"
],
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{
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"Wartime intelligence organization established in 1942 and abolished in 1945."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
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"Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
],
"locator": "Documents 1–5; especially orders of July 11, 1941, June 13, 1942, September 20, 1945, January 22, 1946",
"inspectionScope": "Transcribed orders and accompanying publication context"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": [
"CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
],
"locator": "263.1; administrative history in 263.2",
"inspectionScope": "Administrative history, not the underlying archival record series"
}
],
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"mission": "Strategic intelligence and special services under the Joint Chiefs.",
"relevance": "Existing profile; clarify division of functions at abolition.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
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"questions": [],
"entityType": "Military office",
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"int-nara-rg263-20261012"
],
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"oss-established",
"oss-abolition-ordered"
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}
},
{
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"name": "SHAEF",
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"Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force",
"EW-Pa 128",
"Maison Rouge",
"Red House",
"Rotes Haus"
],
"type": "organization",
"description": "Headquarters whose economic intelligence section produced the Maison Rouge report.",
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"maison-rouge-report"
],
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{
"sourceId": "red-house-original-v2",
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"Headquarters whose economic intelligence section produced the Maison Rouge report."
]
}
]
},
{
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"name": "Manhattan Engineer District",
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"MED",
"Manhattan Project"
],
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"manhattan-district",
"trinity-test"
],
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{
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"Army administrative district for the wartime atomic-bomb project."
]
},
{
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"1946 AEC statute, MED order/effective dates and subsequent administrative lineage."
],
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}
],
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"uapStatus": "context-only",
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"centers-aec-records-20261012"
],
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"manhattan-district"
],
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}
},
{
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"AEC"
],
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"aec-established",
"aec-assumes-operations-1947"
],
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{
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"Civilian atomic agency established by the 1946 Atomic Energy Act."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "centers-aec-records-20261012",
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"1946 AEC statute, MED order/effective dates and subsequent administrative lineage."
],
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},
{
"sourceId": "centers-doe-history-20261012",
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"October 1, 1977 activation and separate NRC regulatory role after AEC split."
],
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}
],
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"relevance": "Institutional context for evaluating who performed or sponsored research; no UAP role follows from institutional category.",
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"centers-aec-records-20261012",
"centers-doe-history-20261012"
],
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],
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}
},
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"DOE"
],
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"description": "Department established effective October 1, 1977, incorporating multiple predecessor functions.",
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"doe-established",
"doe-authorized-1977"
],
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{
"sourceId": "doe-history",
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"Department established effective October 1, 1977, incorporating multiple predecessor functions."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "centers-doe-history-20261012",
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"October 1, 1977 activation and separate NRC regulatory role after AEC split."
],
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}
],
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"centers-doe-history-20261012"
],
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],
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}
},
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"ERDA"
],
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"erda-operational-1975"
],
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{
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"A predecessor whose functions were consolidated into DOE in 1977."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "centers-erda-records-20261012",
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"October 11, 1974 establishment law; January 19, 1975 operational date; 1977 DOE succession."
],
"locator": "430.1 Administrative History",
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},
{
"sourceId": "centers-doe-history-20261012",
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"October 1, 1977 activation and separate NRC regulatory role after AEC split."
],
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}
],
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"relevance": "Institutional context for evaluating who performed or sponsored research; no UAP role follows from institutional category.",
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"centers-erda-records-20261012",
"centers-doe-history-20261012"
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],
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},
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"id": "cia",
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"CIA"
],
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"national-security-act",
"cia-established",
"nro-agreement",
"cia-remote-viewing",
"air-remote-viewing-review",
"area51-history-release",
"robertson-panel-1953"
],
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{
"sourceId": "cia-history",
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"Agency established effective September 18, 1947; author, sponsor and custodian roles must be distinguished by document."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
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"CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
],
"locator": "263.1; administrative history in 263.2",
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},
{
"sourceId": "robertson-panel",
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"Appendix U; meeting dates, covering memorandum, conclusions and recommendations, printed pp. 1394–1421"
],
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}
],
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"entityType": "Intelligence component",
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"int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"robertson-panel"
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}
},
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"NSC"
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],
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{
"sourceId": "nsc-history",
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]
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg273-20261012",
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"NSC statutory establishment July 26, 1947; transfer to EOP effective August 20, 1949."
],
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}
],
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"mission": "Coordinate domestic, foreign and military security policies.",
"relevance": "Separates policy supervision from collection organizations.",
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"entityType": "Oversight body",
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}
},
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"USAF",
"U.S. Air Force",
"Air Force",
"US Air Force"
],
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"rendlesham-reports-1980",
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{
"sourceId": "bluebook-history",
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]
}
]
},
{
"id": "nsa",
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"NSA"
],
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"tehran-intercept-report-1976"
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{
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]
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nsa-early-history-20261012",
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"NSA name became effective November 4, 1952; authority shifted from JCS arrangement to Secretary of Defense."
],
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"inspectionScope": "Opening account and final organizational discussion"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
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"AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
],
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}
],
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}
},
{
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"DIA"
],
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{
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"Defense intelligence agency established by directive in August 1961."
]
},
{
"sourceId": "int-dia-background-20261012",
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"Secretary directive August 1, 1961 made DIA effective October 1, 1961."
],
"locator": "Document 298, establishment and mission paragraphs",
"inspectionScope": "DIA charter dates and consolidation rationale"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aawsap-contract-20261012",
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"Award/effective date September 22, 2008 and BAASS contractor; contractual research periods are not agency formation dates."
],
"locator": "PDF p. 5 SF1449 blocks 2–5, 17 and 31; pp. 7–9 schedules",
"inspectionScope": "Released cover letter, contract face and schedule"
}
],
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"int-aawsap-contract-20261012"
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"dia-operational-start"
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}
},
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"NRO"
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"space-nro-agency-1963",
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"space-nro-query-authorized",
"space-nro-public-acknowledgment",
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{
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},
{
"sourceId": "space-nro-1961-20261012",
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"Original document describes a covert NRO and its management of the National Reconnaissance Program. The editorial note states that the proposed co-directorship never went into effect."
],
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},
{
"sourceId": "space-nro-1992-20261012",
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"Deputy Secretary Don Atwood announces existence, historical mission and reporting arrangements; expressly says no other NRO information has been declassified."
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"inspectionScope": "Downloaded and visually inspected entire scanned page."
},
{
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],
"locator": "Printed pp. 9, 13–14, 18–19; chronology pp. 41, 46–47",
"inspectionScope": "Targeted text passages and chronology inspected, not entire volume."
}
],
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"questions": [
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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},
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],
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}
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"space-corona-release"
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}
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"GAMBIT1",
"GAMBIT3",
"KH-7",
"KH-8"
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"KH-9"
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}
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"space-quill-public-announcement"
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}
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}
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"space-smc",
"space-ssc-created"
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"inspectionScope": "Relevant stand-up and organizational paragraphs inspected."
},
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"The official biography explicitly says SAMSO was redesignated Space Division in October 1979. It supports month precision, not an exact day."
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"inspectionScope": "Opened and read the relevant career paragraph and as-of statement."
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"space-afspc-launch"
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}
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"space-spacecom-reestablished"
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"Contemporary activation remarks establish 23 September 1985 as the original command activation date and explain the unified military-space support mission."
],
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"Ellis testifies that UCP Change 1 combined functions of the former U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command on 1 October 2002."
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"inspectionScope": "Relevant original testimony and hearing date inspected."
},
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"inspectionScope": "Caption and relevant surrounding article inspected."
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}
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}
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"inspectionScope": "Relevant establishment and architecture-mission text inspected as of the review date."
},
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"inspectionScope": "Transfer date and organizational rationale inspected."
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"entityType": "Federal agency",
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}
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],
"locator": "Paragraphs describing 18 SDS, 20 SPSS, 19 SDS and the SSN",
"inspectionScope": "Mission and network paragraphs inspected."
},
{
"sourceId": "space-delta2-2021-20261012",
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"Delta 2 activated on 24 July 2020. Radar/optical sensors and missile-warning contributors provide orbital-awareness data. Identifies Eglin AN/FPS-85 and the Kwajalein Space Fence."
],
"locator": "Activation and sensor paragraphs, lines 89–108",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant body, lines 89–108 inspected."
}
],
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"relevance": "A network, not an intelligence agency or an assertion that every aerial phenomenon is observable.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
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}
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],
"locator": "Activation and sensor paragraphs, lines 89–108",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant body, lines 89–108 inspected."
},
{
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}
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"relevance": "Provides dated operator context for SSN; separate from the network itself.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
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"space-delta2-2021-20261012",
"space-ssn-2023-20261012"
],
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"space-delta2-created"
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}
},
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"id": "eglin-fps85",
"name": "Eglin AN/FPS-85 radar",
"type": "program",
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"Eglin Phased Array Radar",
"AN/FPS-85"
],
"description": "Track orbital objects as part of space domain awareness work.",
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{
"sourceId": "space-delta2-2021-20261012",
"supports": [
"Delta 2 activated on 24 July 2020. Radar/optical sensors and missile-warning contributors provide orbital-awareness data. Identifies Eglin AN/FPS-85 and the Kwajalein Space Fence."
],
"locator": "Activation and sensor paragraphs, lines 89–108",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant body, lines 89–108 inspected."
},
{
"sourceId": "space-ssn-2023-20261012",
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"Describes SSN as a worldwide radar/optical network tracking artificial orbital objects. The dated account identifies 18 SDS as its tasking unit, and 20 SPSS as operator of Eglin radar and Space Fence."
],
"locator": "Paragraphs describing 18 SDS, 20 SPSS, 19 SDS and the SSN",
"inspectionScope": "Mission and network paragraphs inspected."
}
],
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"domain": "space",
"mission": "Track orbital objects as part of space domain awareness work.",
"relevance": "Concrete sensor supporting the orbital network.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Sensor system",
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"space-delta2-2021-20261012",
"space-ssn-2023-20261012"
],
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}
},
{
"id": "space-fence",
"name": "Space Fence",
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"description": "Orbital-object tracking from Kwajalein Atoll.",
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{
"sourceId": "space-delta2-2021-20261012",
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"Delta 2 activated on 24 July 2020. Radar/optical sensors and missile-warning contributors provide orbital-awareness data. Identifies Eglin AN/FPS-85 and the Kwajalein Space Fence."
],
"locator": "Activation and sensor paragraphs, lines 89–108",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant body, lines 89–108 inspected."
},
{
"sourceId": "space-ssn-2023-20261012",
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"Describes SSN as a worldwide radar/optical network tracking artificial orbital objects. The dated account identifies 18 SDS as its tasking unit, and 20 SPSS as operator of Eglin radar and Space Fence."
],
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"inspectionScope": "Mission and network paragraphs inspected."
}
],
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"acronym": "",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Orbital-object tracking from Kwajalein Atoll.",
"relevance": "Modern radar at Kwajalein, distinct from the earlier NAVSPASUR/Air Force surveillance fence.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
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"entityType": "Sensor system",
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"space-delta2-2021-20261012",
"space-ssn-2023-20261012"
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}
},
{
"id": "parcs",
"name": "Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System",
"type": "program",
"aliases": [
"PARCS"
],
"description": "Provide missile-warning, attack-characterization and orbital-surveillance data from Cavalier.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-parcs-20261012",
"supports": [
"Identifies 10 SWS, a Delta 4 unit, as PARCS operator. Describes warning and surveillance data supplied to NORAD and USSPACECOM; the installation rename did not change the radar mission."
],
"locator": "Radar/operator paragraphs, lines 89–99",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant radar/operator and renaming text read."
}
],
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"acronym": "PARCS",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Provide missile-warning, attack-characterization and orbital-surveillance data from Cavalier.",
"relevance": "The 2021 account identifies 10 SWS/Delta 4 as operator and NORAD/USSPACECOM among recipients.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Sensor system",
"classificationNote": "Phased-array missile-warning and space-surveillance radar",
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"space-parcs-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
"id": "pave-paws",
"name": "PAVE PAWS",
"type": "program",
"aliases": [],
"description": "Missile warning/defense support and orbital tracking; Cape Cod operations described in 2021 record.",
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"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-pave-paws-20261012",
"supports": [
"Cape Cod PAVE PAWS/UEWR detects ICBM s/SLBM s and contributes orbital tracking/collision-avoidance data;6 SWS is a Delta 4 unit in this 2021 record."
],
"locator": "Mission paragraphs, lines 109–116",
"inspectionScope": "Relevant mission and radar paragraphs inspected."
},
{
"sourceId": "space-radar-context-20261012",
"supports": [
"A dated 2018 description identifies PARCS, PAVE PAWS, upgraded early-warning radars and COBRA DANE, with missile-warning, defense and situational-awareness roles."
],
"locator": "Full article, especially opening seven paragraphs",
"inspectionScope": "Full article inspected."
}
],
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"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Missile warning/defense support and orbital tracking; Cape Cod operations described in 2021 record.",
"relevance": "Missile-warning and orbital-catalog capabilities do not independently prove UAP tasking.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Sensor system",
"classificationNote": "Phased-array early-warning radar system",
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"space-pave-paws-20261012",
"space-radar-context-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
"id": "bmews",
"name": "Ballistic Missile Early Warning System",
"type": "program",
"aliases": [
"BMEWS"
],
"description": "Early-warning radar system; its Thule Site 1 successor is UEWR in the 2022 source.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-bmews-uewr-20261012",
"supports": [
"Identifies Thule UEWR as former BMEWS Site 1. Describes 12 SWS missile-warning, missile-defense and secondary orbital-surveillance duties."
],
"locator": "Written video description, lines 98–101",
"inspectionScope": "Written description only; video not watched."
}
],
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"acronym": "BMEWS",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Early-warning radar system; its Thule Site 1 successor is UEWR in the 2022 source.",
"relevance": "Historical warning-system name, distinct from its operating squadron and later upgraded radar.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [
"Complete original BMEWS site-activation chronology was not established in this pass."
],
"entityType": "Sensor system",
"classificationNote": "Ballistic-missile warning radar system",
"sourceIds": [
"space-bmews-uewr-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
"id": "uewr",
"name": "Upgraded Early Warning Radar",
"type": "program",
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"UEWR"
],
"description": "Missile warning, missile-defense data and secondary orbital-surveillance support.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-bmews-uewr-20261012",
"supports": [
"Identifies Thule UEWR as former BMEWS Site 1. Describes 12 SWS missile-warning, missile-defense and secondary orbital-surveillance duties."
],
"locator": "Written video description, lines 98–101",
"inspectionScope": "Written description only; video not watched."
},
{
"sourceId": "space-radar-context-20261012",
"supports": [
"A dated 2018 description identifies PARCS, PAVE PAWS, upgraded early-warning radars and COBRA DANE, with missile-warning, defense and situational-awareness roles."
],
"locator": "Full article, especially opening seven paragraphs",
"inspectionScope": "Full article inspected."
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "UEWR",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Missile warning, missile-defense data and secondary orbital-surveillance support.",
"relevance": "The dated source identifies former BMEWS Site 1 at Thule; the 2018 network account names other warning sites.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
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"space-bmews-uewr-20261012",
"space-radar-context-20261012"
],
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}
},
{
"id": "cobra-dane",
"name": "COBRA DANE",
"type": "program",
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"description": "Provide missile-tracking data from Eareckson Air Station to Ground-Based Midcourse Defense fire control.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-radar-context-20261012",
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"A dated 2018 description identifies PARCS, PAVE PAWS, upgraded early-warning radars and COBRA DANE, with missile-warning, defense and situational-awareness roles."
],
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"inspectionScope": "Full article inspected."
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Provide missile-tracking data from Eareckson Air Station to Ground-Based Midcourse Defense fire control.",
"relevance": "Specific radar capability documented in 2018 network description.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Sensor system",
"classificationNote": "Missile-defense tracking radar",
"sourceIds": [
"space-radar-context-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
"id": "defense-support-program",
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"aliases": [
"DSP"
],
"description": "Provide satellite missile-launch warning; supported tactical Scud warning in 1991.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "space-usaf-space-history-20261012",
"supports": [
"WDD July 1954, AFBMD June 1957, 1961 split, 1967 SAMSO, AFSPC 1982 and subsequent sensor/launch transfers, later acquisition names, and DSP missile-warning use in Desert Storm."
],
"locator": "Printed pp. 71–74 (PDF pp. 77–80); title page",
"inspectionScope": "Downloaded scan; title and pages 71–74 visually inspected."
}
],
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"acronym": "DSP",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "space",
"mission": "Provide satellite missile-launch warning; supported tactical Scud warning in 1991.",
"relevance": "Space-based warning differs from imaging/ELINT reconnaissance and ground-based radar.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "The inspected institutional sources do not establish a UAP investigation, retrieval, or exploitation role. Sensor capability or secrecy alone does not establish such a role.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Program",
"classificationNote": "Missile-warning satellite program",
"sourceIds": [
"space-usaf-space-history-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
"id": "coi",
"name": "Coordinator of Information",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"COI"
],
"description": "Collect and analyze national-security information for the president.",
"eventIds": [
"coi-established"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"supports": [
"Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
],
"locator": "Documents 1–5; especially orders of July 11, 1941, June 13, 1942, September 20, 1945, January 22, 1946",
"inspectionScope": "Transcribed orders and accompanying publication context"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "COI",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Collect and analyze national-security information for the president.",
"relevance": "Predecessor to OSS, with foreign-information functions taking a separate path.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Federal office",
"classificationNote": "Presidential intelligence-coordination office",
"sourceIds": [
"int-coi-cig-orders-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": [
"coi-established"
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}
},
{
"id": "ssu",
"name": "Strategic Services Unit",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"SSU"
],
"description": "Held residual OSS intelligence functions during postwar reorganization.",
"eventIds": [
"ssu-established",
"ssu-abolished"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": [
"CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
],
"locator": "263.1; administrative history in 263.2",
"inspectionScope": "Administrative history, not the underlying archival record series"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "SSU",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Held residual OSS intelligence functions during postwar reorganization.",
"relevance": "Connects OSS functions to CIG without suggesting an unchanged agency.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Military office",
"classificationNote": "War Department transitional intelligence unit",
"sourceIds": [
"int-nara-rg263-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": [
"ssu-established",
"ssu-abolished"
]
}
},
{
"id": "cig",
"name": "Central Intelligence Group",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"CIG"
],
"description": "Coordinated national intelligence under the DCI.",
"eventIds": [
"cig-established"
],
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{
"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"supports": [
"Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
],
"locator": "Documents 1–5; especially orders of July 11, 1941, June 13, 1942, September 20, 1945, January 22, 1946",
"inspectionScope": "Transcribed orders and accompanying publication context"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": [
"CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
],
"locator": "263.1; administrative history in 263.2",
"inspectionScope": "Administrative history, not the underlying archival record series"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "CIG",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Coordinated national intelligence under the DCI.",
"relevance": "Immediate pre-CIA organization.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Interagency arrangement",
"classificationNote": "National Intelligence Authority-directed intelligence group",
"sourceIds": [
"int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"int-nara-rg263-20261012"
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"cig-established"
]
}
},
{
"id": "afsa",
"name": "Armed Forces Security Agency",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"AFSA"
],
"description": "Coordinated armed-service cryptologic activity.",
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"afsa-authorized",
"afsa-established"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"supports": [
"AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
],
"locator": "457.1–457.2 administrative history",
"inspectionScope": "Administrative history only"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nsa-early-history-20261012",
"supports": [
"NSA name became effective November 4, 1952; authority shifted from JCS arrangement to Secretary of Defense."
],
"locator": "PDF pp. 1 and 7",
"inspectionScope": "Opening account and final organizational discussion"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "AFSA",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Coordinated armed-service cryptologic activity.",
"relevance": "Institutional predecessor to NSA.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Intelligence component",
"classificationNote": "Joint military cryptologic agency",
"sourceIds": [
"int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"int-nsa-early-history-20261012"
],
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"afsa-authorized",
"afsa-established"
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}
},
{
"id": "css",
"name": "Central Security Service",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"CSS"
],
"description": "Integrate military cryptology with NSA and service elements.",
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"css-authorized-1971",
"css-established-1972"
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"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-css-about-20261012",
"supports": [
"Agency page dates establishment to 1972 without a day and describes military cryptologic integration and dual leadership."
],
"locator": "Entire short page",
"inspectionScope": "Establishment statement and mission"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"supports": [
"AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
],
"locator": "457.1–457.2 administrative history",
"inspectionScope": "Administrative history only"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-css-plan-1972-20261012",
"supports": [
"CSS plan submitted February 1 and JCS concurrence received March 15; Secretary approval was still anticipated on March 16."
],
"locator": "Document 267, March 16, 1972",
"inspectionScope": "Full memorandum and provenance note"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "CSS",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Integrate military cryptology with NSA and service elements.",
"relevance": "Separate CSS authority from NSA founding and operating-plan dates.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Interagency arrangement",
"classificationNote": "Military cryptologic coordination structure",
"sourceIds": [
"int-css-about-20261012",
"int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"int-css-plan-1972-20261012"
],
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"css-authorized-1971",
"css-established-1972"
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}
},
{
"id": "npic",
"name": "National Photographic Interpretation Center",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"NPIC"
],
"description": "Photographic interpretation and common intelligence services.",
"eventIds": [
"npic-established"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012",
"supports": [
"NPIC cites NSCID 8 of January 18, 1961. Dated regulations identify technical offices and their responsibilities."
],
"locator": "PDF pp. 3–16; NPIC authority p. 10; OSA p. 14; OTS p. 16",
"inspectionScope": "Downloaded scans; OCR inspected pp. 3–16; original DDR is a separate source"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nga-about-20261012",
"supports": [
"NIMA began October 1, 1996, absorbing DMA, NPIC, CIO and DDPO plus imagery elements of other agencies."
],
"locator": "Our Heritage paragraphs",
"inspectionScope": "Mission and heritage sections"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "NPIC",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Photographic interpretation and common intelligence services.",
"relevance": "Imagery exploitation lineage to NIMA.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Interagency arrangement",
"classificationNote": "Interdepartmental photographic-intelligence center",
"sourceIds": [
"int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012",
"int-nga-about-20261012"
],
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"npic-established"
]
}
},
{
"id": "dma",
"name": "Defense Mapping Agency",
"type": "organization",
"aliases": [
"DMA"
],
"description": "Consolidate defense mapping, charting and geodesy.",
"eventIds": [
"dma-established",
"dma-operational"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg456-20261012",
"supports": [
"Directive January 1, 1972 created DMA; consolidation became operational July 1, 1972."
],
"locator": "456.1–456.2 administrative history",
"inspectionScope": "Establishment and operational consolidation"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
"acronym": "DMA",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Consolidate defense mapping, charting and geodesy.",
"relevance": "Separate 1972 establishment and operational consolidation.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Federal agency",
"classificationNote": "Defense mapping agency",
"sourceIds": [
"int-nara-rg456-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": [
"dma-established",
"dma-operational"
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}
},
{
"id": "nga",
"name": "National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency",
"type": "organization",
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"National Imagery and Mapping Agency",
"NIMA",
"NGA"
],
"description": "Provide geospatial intelligence for national security.",
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"nima-established",
"nga-renamed"
],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nga-about-20261012",
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"NIMA began October 1, 1996, absorbing DMA, NPIC, CIO and DDPO plus imagery elements of other agencies."
],
"locator": "Our Heritage paragraphs",
"inspectionScope": "Mission and heritage sections"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nga-redesignation-law-20261012",
"supports": [
"NIMA redesignated NGA by law approved November 24, 2003."
],
"locator": "Section 921, 117 Stat. 1568; approval line",
"inspectionScope": "Rename provision and approval date"
}
],
"institutionalProfile": {
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"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Provide geospatial intelligence for national security.",
"relevance": "Successor name of NIMA under the 2003 law.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Intelligence component",
"classificationNote": "Geospatial-intelligence agency",
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"int-nga-about-20261012",
"int-nga-redesignation-law-20261012"
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"nima-established",
"nga-renamed"
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}
},
{
"id": "atic",
"name": "Air Technical Intelligence Center",
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"aliases": [
"Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center",
"ATIC"
],
"description": "Air Force technical-intelligence work; exact mission charter remains to be retrieved.",
"eventIds": [],
"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nasia-lineage-20261012",
"supports": [
"Private association lists name changes and separately says formal NASIC lineage begins July 1961; it is not part of DoD."
],
"locator": "Chronology lines 234–267; formal-lineage footnote at line 218; independence disclaimer at line 385",
"inspectionScope": "Chronology and publisher-status disclosure"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": [
"Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
],
"locator": "Printed pp. 14–16 and 22–24",
"inspectionScope": "Selected program summaries on printed pp. 14–16, 18–20 and 22–24; not full report or all underlying citations"
}
],
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"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Air Force technical-intelligence work; exact mission charter remains to be retrieved.",
"relevance": "Historical Blue Book setting; lineage should not retroactively call 1948 activities ATIC.",
"uapStatus": "documented-role",
"uapNote": "Air Force historical UFO-program connection; inspected lineage support here is a private association chronology pending original orders.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Military office",
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"int-nasia-lineage-20261012",
"int-aaro-history-2024-20261012"
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"Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center",
"Foreign Technology Division",
"FTD",
"NASIC",
"National Air Intelligence Center",
"NAIC"
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{
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"Private association lists name changes and separately says formal NASIC lineage begins July 1961; it is not part of DoD."
],
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}
],
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"relevance": "NAIC/NASIC names distinguish later lineage from ATIC-era history.",
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"Retrieve AFHRA/DAF original lineage page or organizing orders; official pages returned 403 in this session."
],
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"int-nasia-lineage-20261012"
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}
},
{
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"ITAC"
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{
"sourceId": "int-inscom-history-20261012",
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"INSCOM formed January 1, 1977; Army Intelligence Agency HQ integrated October 1; ITAC created January 1, 1978."
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},
{
"sourceId": "int-ngic-history-20261012",
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"FSTC and ITAC combined into provisional NGIC July 8, 1994; fully operational July 9."
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],
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"mission": "Army intelligence and threat analysis.",
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"int-inscom-history-20261012",
"int-ngic-history-20261012"
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}
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"FSTC"
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{
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"FSTC and ITAC combined into provisional NGIC July 8, 1994; fully operational July 9."
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}
],
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"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Foreign science and technology intelligence.",
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"questions": [],
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"int-ngic-history-20261012"
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"milestoneIds": []
}
},
{
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"NGIC"
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"ngic-provisional-activation",
"ngic-operational"
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"FSTC and ITAC combined into provisional NGIC July 8, 1994; fully operational July 9."
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"domain": "intelligence",
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"uapStatus": "context-only",
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"questions": [],
"entityType": "Military office",
"classificationNote": "INSCOM subordinate intelligence center",
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"int-ngic-history-20261012"
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"ngic-provisional-activation",
"ngic-operational"
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}
},
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"MSIC"
],
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"msic-dia-transfer"
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{
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"MSIC lineage traces Army Ballistic Missile Agency in 1956, Army Intelligence Agency in 1985, and DIA in 1992."
],
"locator": "Slides 4, 6 and 7",
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}
],
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"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Analyze foreign missile and related weapon systems.",
"relevance": "Technical exploitation context; source dates precursor lineage and DIA transfer by year.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
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"questions": [
"Inspect founding orders and 1992 transfer instrument before assigning an exact day or using the MSIC name for its 1956 precursor."
],
"entityType": "Military office",
"classificationNote": "DIA technical-intelligence center",
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"int-msic-briefing-20261012"
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"milestoneIds": [
"msic-dia-transfer"
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}
},
{
"id": "cia-osi",
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"Office of Scientific Intelligence",
"OSI"
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"cia-osi-established"
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{
"sourceId": "int-osi-responsibilities-20261012",
"supports": [
"Memo describes scientific division elevated to Office of Scientific Intelligence in January 1949."
],
"locator": "November 29, 1951 memorandum, page 1 paragraphs 1–3",
"inspectionScope": "Page 1 scan visually read"
}
],
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"acronym": "OSI",
"attributes": [],
"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Scientific-intelligence production and coordination.",
"relevance": "Distinguish CIA OSI from Air Force OSI; relevant scientific-analysis lineage.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Federal office",
"classificationNote": "CIA scientific-intelligence office",
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"int-osi-responsibilities-20261012"
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"cia-osi-established"
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}
},
{
"id": "cia-ddr",
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"Deputy Director for Research",
"Directorate of Research",
"DD/R"
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"description": "Centralize selected technical and scientific activities.",
"eventIds": [
"cia-ddr-authorized",
"cia-ddr-effective"
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"sources": [
{
"sourceId": "int-ddr-establishment-20261012",
"supports": [
"Notice signed February 16, 1962 establishes Deputy Director for Research effective February 19."
],
"locator": "One-page signed HN 1-9",
"inspectionScope": "Entire scan visually inspected"
}
],
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"acronym": "DD/R",
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"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Centralize selected technical and scientific activities.",
"relevance": "1962 predecessor to DS&T.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Directorate",
"classificationNote": "CIA technical research directorate",
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"int-ddr-establishment-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": [
"cia-ddr-authorized",
"cia-ddr-effective"
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}
},
{
"id": "cia-dst",
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"DDS&T",
"Directorate for Science and Technology",
"DS&T"
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"cia-dst-established"
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{
"sourceId": "int-dst-origins-20261012",
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"CIA dates DS&T creation August 6, 1963 under Albert Wheelon."
],
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"inspectionScope": "DDR and DS&T establishment discussion; unrelated anecdotes not relied on"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012",
"supports": [
"NPIC cites NSCID 8 of January 18, 1961. Dated regulations identify technical offices and their responsibilities."
],
"locator": "PDF pp. 3–16; NPIC authority p. 10; OSA p. 14; OTS p. 16",
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}
],
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"domain": "intelligence",
"mission": "Research, technical collection and scientific intelligence.",
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"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Directorate",
"classificationNote": "CIA technical-intelligence directorate",
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"int-dst-origins-20261012",
"int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012"
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"cia-dst-established"
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}
},
{
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"OSA"
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"description": "Develop and operate sensitive technical collection projects.",
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{
"sourceId": "int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012",
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"NPIC cites NSCID 8 of January 18, 1961. Dated regulations identify technical offices and their responsibilities."
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}
],
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"questions": [],
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"milestoneIds": []
}
},
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"id": "cia-ots",
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"Office of Technical Services",
"OTS"
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}
],
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"domain": "intelligence",
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"relevance": "1975 charter includes foreign-find evaluation; this wording does not identify extraterrestrial materials.",
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"questions": [],
"entityType": "Federal office",
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"int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012"
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"milestoneIds": []
}
},
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"id": "special-group-5412",
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"special-group-303-rename"
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{
"sourceId": "int-nsc5412-2-20261012",
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"President approved December 28, 1955; CIA covert-operation responsibility and senior interdepartmental review mechanism."
],
"locator": "Document 250, especially paragraphs 2, 7–8 and note 1",
"inspectionScope": "Directive and approval provenance"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nsam303-20261012",
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"Special Group 5412 renamed 303 Committee June 2, 1964 without changing composition or responsibilities."
],
"locator": "Document 204, paragraphs 1–2",
"inspectionScope": "Full directive"
}
],
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"mission": "Senior policy review of covert operations.",
"relevance": "Documented oversight mechanism; do not conflate it with MJ-12.",
"uapStatus": "context-only",
"uapNote": "No operational UAP role is established by the inspected institutional sources.",
"questions": [],
"entityType": "Oversight body",
"classificationNote": "Interdepartmental covert-operation review committee",
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"int-nsc5412-2-20261012",
"int-nsam303-20261012"
],
"milestoneIds": [
"nsc5412-2-approved",
"special-group-303-rename"
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}
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"AAWSAP"
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"aawsap-contract-award",
"aawsap-end-2012"
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{
"sourceId": "int-aawsap-contract-20261012",
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"Award/effective date September 22, 2008 and BAASS contractor; contractual research periods are not agency formation dates."
],
"locator": "PDF p. 5 SF1449 blocks 2–5, 17 and 31; pp. 7–9 schedules",
"inspectionScope": "Released cover letter, contract face and schedule"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aawsap-brief-2008-20261012",
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"December 16, 2008 briefing describes twelve research areas, submitted management plans and payments underway."
],
"locator": "Dated cover and slides 2–9",
"inspectionScope": "Ten-page file including mirror insert"
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
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"Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
],
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}
],
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}
},
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"AATIP"
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{
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}
],
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}
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{
"sourceId": "int-aoimsg-briefing-card-20261012",
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}
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"sourceId": "int-aaro-announcement-20261012",
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"July 15 direction expanded and renamed AOIMSG; July 20 public announcement. AAROEXEC under USD(I&S) supplied oversight."
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],
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}
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}
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{
"sourceId": "int-kona-records-20261012",
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],
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}
},
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{
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"inspectionScope": "OGA and DS&T career paragraphs"
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"sourceId": "int-oga-vt-biography-20261012",
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],
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"sourceId": "int-oga-ford-statement-20261012",
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"Ford describes reporting alleging a CIA OGA recovery role; congressional custody does not verify the allegation."
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],
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],
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"int-oga-vt-biography-20261012",
"int-oga-ford-statement-20261012"
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}
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"NNSA formally established March 1, 2000 as semi-autonomous DOE administration under FY2000 NDAA."
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]
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{
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{
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"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"accessStatus": "Direct HTTP access failed; full text recovered through web retrieval",
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"note": "Reuters body read through web retrieval after direct HTTP 401. Pair with the original-report mirror; article metadata March 9 and reported March 8 release differ."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
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"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
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"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"accessStatus": "Direct HTTP access failed; full text recovered through web retrieval",
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Same PURSUE waiver announcement; republication is not independent corroboration.",
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"mode": "supporting-text",
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Same PURSUE waiver announcement; republication is not independent corroboration.",
"note": "Republication of the same announcement; not independent corroboration of legal effects."
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
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},
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"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
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"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"doe-history": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"doe-chronology": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "August 6 and August 9, 1945 chronology entries",
"basis": "Fresh reading for the atomic-bombings entry; earlier chronology uses retain their prior inspection provenance.",
"originGroup": "DOE institutional chronology",
"accessStatus": "Original official text accessible",
"note": "Current page reading is not a complete archival audit."
},
"leonardo-flight": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"bbh-timeline": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "BBH organizational self-history",
"note": "Dedicated chronology uses 1931; linked Prescott self-history uses 1930 merger wording. Preserve unresolved discrepancy."
},
"bbh-prescott": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "BBH organizational self-history",
"note": "Interested organizational history. Supports attributed role but conflicts with the dedicated chronology on merger year."
},
"ubc-order": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant Federal Register scan page visually read",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Government scan, Federal Register p. 9097, PDF p. 31 visually inspected. Execution October 20, filing November 6, publication November 7."
},
"tesla-papers": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "PBS historical account inspected; original technical review not read. Do not upgrade to original-document verification."
},
"red-house-original": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "All four reproduced original scan pages visually read",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "EW-Pa 128 informant report",
"note": "Four scan pages visually read. November 7 is report creation, not demonstrated public publication; November 27 is transmission."
},
"red-house-audit": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Analysis of EW-Pa 128, not an independent meeting witness",
"note": "Use for provenance critique, not as a second witness to the alleged meeting."
},
"wcc-memo": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "April 4, 1952 is document creation; later FRUS edition/publication is a different date."
},
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"airforce-ufo-facts": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"gao-roswell": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"darpa-history": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"nro-agreement": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "September 6, 1961 is letter creation; preserve the FRUS editorial qualification about organizational implementation."
},
"monroe-history": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"gateway-report": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Internet Archive OCR of the original inspected. Army/INSCOM authored; CIA custody does not prove CIA validation. June 9, 1983 is internal document date."
},
"sri-report": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Archival OCR cover specifies January 1974–February 1975 research period. Exact publication date is not established."
},
"air-final": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "1995 synthesis using the same commissioned review and applications record",
"note": "Final report September 29, 1995 inspected in archival OCR; distinguish draft, release stamps and operational-termination decisions."
},
"utts-assessment": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Reviews of substantially the same remote-viewing research, not independent replications.",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"hyman-assessment": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "1995 commissioned review of substantially shared SRI/SAIC evidence",
"note": "September 11 dates the assessment itself; public release of both reviewers’ work is not established by that header."
},
"monroe-mcmoneagle": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"voyager-record": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"voyager-overview": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"area51-release": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"vallee-finding-aid": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Collection-level accession and restriction notes read; underlying restricted files not inspected."
},
"magenta-report": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "A 2017 account of alleged 1933 events; does not authenticate original 1933 provenance."
},
"center-lane-review": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "March 26, 1984 internal recommendation; full memo text read via archival OCR. Not completed human-use approval."
},
"lazar-klas-retrospective": {
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"mode": "automatic-transcript",
"scope": "Full automatic English transcript, approximately 0:00–4:57; original interview excerpt 0:36–1:17. Audiovisual recording not watched.",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Complete automatic-caption transcript inspected, not audiovisual playback. Use 0:36–1:17 for original interview excerpt; later narration makes unsupported corroboration inferences."
},
"emmel-nag-hammadi": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Scholarly article text obtained from the hosting archive’s CONTENTdm API and read",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Claremont shell required CONTENTdm item/API text. Scholarly encyclopedia article read; uncertain discovery and codex-specific dating retained."
},
"janssens-thomas": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Scholarly article text obtained from the hosting archive’s CONTENTdm API and read",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Claremont shell required CONTENTdm item/API text. Edition/date and textual distinctions read; do not make its 1991 classifications timeless consensus."
},
"goodacre-nag-hammadi": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"athanasius-letter39": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"pearse-nag-hammadi": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-book-guide": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-directory": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-participant-introductions": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-1": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-16": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-27": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-54": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-76": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"ra-session-106": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Ra participant archive / later editions, not independent confirmations",
"note": "Inspected supporting passages support the limited role assigned in linked event rows; no new factual defect identified in that scope."
},
"red-house-original-v2": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "All four reproduced original scan pages visually read",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "EW-Pa 128 informant report",
"note": "Four scan pages visually read. November 7 is report creation, not demonstrated public publication; November 27 is transmission."
},
"wcc-memo-v2": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "April 4, 1952 is document creation; later FRUS edition/publication is a different date."
},
"nro-agreement-v2": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "September 6, 1961 is letter creation; preserve the FRUS editorial qualification about organizational implementation."
},
"gateway-report-v2": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Internet Archive OCR of the original inspected. Army/INSCOM authored; CIA custody does not prove CIA validation. June 9, 1983 is internal document date."
},
"sri-report-v2": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "Archival OCR cover specifies January 1974–February 1975 research period. Exact publication date is not established."
},
"air-final-v2": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Reviews of substantially the same remote-viewing research, not independent replications.",
"note": "Final report September 29, 1995 inspected in archival OCR; distinguish draft, release stamps and operational-termination decisions."
},
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "Reviews of substantially the same remote-viewing research, not independent replications.",
"note": "September 11 dates the assessment itself; public release of both reviewers’ work is not established by that header."
},
"center-lane-review-v2": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone",
"basis": "Documented October 10 audit inspection; not a new retrieval of every source.",
"accessStatus": "Reachable during this audit; HTTP success alone is not factual verification",
"originGroup": "No additional independence claimed; see event-level scope",
"note": "March 26, 1984 internal recommendation; full memo text read via archival OCR. Not completed human-use approval."
},
"washington-film-nara": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "washington-film-nara",
"note": ""
},
"robertson-panel": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "robertson-panel",
"note": ""
},
"ozma-nrao": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "ozma-nrao",
"note": ""
},
"shag-harbour-mirror-pdf": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "PDF pp. 10–11 visually inspected; no full-dossier review Relevant scan pages also visually inspected in the audit-downloaded copy during implementation.",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "shag-harbour-mirror-pdf",
"note": ""
},
"shag-harbour-primary": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Metadata, abstract or catalog entry inspected; full original content not read here",
"originGroup": "shag-harbour-primary",
"note": "Catalogues establish custody; original reports establish what their authors recorded, not every underlying allegation."
},
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "condon-conclusions",
"note": ""
},
"colorado-archive": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Complete brief institutional archive article; identifies a 1968 report. Does not establish an exact 1969 public-release date.",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "colorado-archive",
"note": ""
},
"iran-routing-mirror": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Message/source-note OCR read; incident-date page visually checked; poor OCR limits exact quotation Relevant scan pages also visually inspected in the audit-downloaded copy during implementation.",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "iran-routing-mirror",
"note": ""
},
"iran-original-page": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Metadata, abstract or catalog entry inspected; full original content not read here",
"originGroup": "iran-original-page",
"note": "Catalogues establish custody; original reports establish what their authors recorded, not every underlying allegation."
},
"cnes-geipan": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "cnes-geipan",
"note": ""
},
"brazil-archival-history": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "brazil-archival-history",
"note": ""
},
"nz-archives-kaikoura": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "nz-archives-kaikoura",
"note": ""
},
"uk-ufo-guide": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "uk-ufo-guide",
"note": ""
},
"hessdalen-1984": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting passages inspected",
"originGroup": "hessdalen-1984",
"note": ""
},
"brazil-ufo-series": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-10",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Relevant supporting passages inspected; not a blanket claim of cover-to-cover review",
"basis": "October 10 audit inspection, with supporting passages in the downloaded copy revisited during editorial implementation. No blanket new retrieval is claimed.",
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"note": "An archival copy or summary does not supply independent corroboration of its underlying record."
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"accessStatus": "accessed",
"note": "An archival copy or summary does not supply independent corroboration of its underlying record."
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"note": "An archival copy or summary does not supply independent corroboration of its underlying record."
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. ",
"originGroup": "QuTech",
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},
"people-fowler-trinity": {
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. ",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Publisher metadata only; the PDF was not read.",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Scan and OCR download options were present; OCR retrieval failed. The content summary also relies on the already inspected introduction to Shannon’s paper.",
"originGroup": "Bell System Technical Journal; Internet Archive journal collection",
"accessStatus": "Catalogue retrieved; OCR retrieval failed"
},
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Only publisher description and catalogue information were inspected; the book was not read.",
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"accessStatus": "Publisher description and metadata retrieved"
},
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},
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"scope": "Institutional account of Green’s computational role, project coordination and team authorship.",
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"originGroup": "University of California, Santa Cruz",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. ",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Publisher description retrieved in search. Direct opens failed; no book text was inspected and no exact date is assigned to the currently linked edition.",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Used only for original edition date and publisher.",
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},
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"scope": "Prepared statement opening and W-72 experience section, PDF pages 1–2.",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. His statements about a removed email and a compartmented program are attributed recollection and interpretation; the original email was not inspected.",
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"accessStatus": "Supporting text retrieved"
},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. ",
"originGroup": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology",
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},
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"scope": "Institutional biography and research areas, including technosignatures and radio astronomy.",
"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. ",
"originGroup": "SETI Institute",
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},
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"scope": "Biography opening and career fields.",
"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. The institution labels its English page an automatic translation. No claim here depends on a delicate translated quotation.",
"originGroup": "Collège de France",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text retrieved"
},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Publisher description and metadata only; the book was not read.",
"originGroup": "Penguin Books / Penguin Random House",
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},
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"mode": "catalogue",
"scope": "Publisher abstract, authorship, bibliographic details and linked 1957 erratum.",
"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Publisher search extraction supplied abstract and metadata; direct DOI open failed. The erratum’s existence was verified, but its full text was not inspected.",
"originGroup": "Physical Review / American Physical Society",
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},
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"mode": "catalogue",
"scope": "NASA catalogue abstract, author, NASA Ames affiliation and DOI.",
"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Indexed catalogue abstract inspected; direct page returned 403. The record states that no download is available.",
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},
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"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Abstract and bibliographic record only. No full-text download is supplied.",
"originGroup": "Journal of Geophysical Research; NASA Technical Reports Server",
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},
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},
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"scope": "Indexed excerpt identifies Captain Uyrangê Hollanda as leader of the military team investigating light reports.",
"basis": "Fresh retrieval for the people-directory revision. Direct page is security-blocked. The role is limited to the institutional indexed excerpt; underlying operation records and later interviews were not freshly inspected.",
"originGroup": "Arquivo Nacional",
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
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"scope": "Introduction; Venus tables pp. 24, 46–50; eclipse tables pp. 51–58",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Dresden Codex: content",
"note": "Curatorial explanation and page references read; no independent recalculation of the tables."
},
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "The Maya Calendar System",
"note": "This educational account includes contemporary Maya practice. Mythic calendar origins are not dated historical occurrences."
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Overview and resource contents, including Maya Opinions on 2012",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Living Maya Time / Viviendo el Tiempo Maya",
"note": "Portal overview inspected; linked interviews not viewed. Some maya.nmai.si.edu HTML pages blocked retrieval."
},
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Opening paragraphs: cycle completion and modern apocalypse claims",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "The World Won’t End in 2012",
"note": "Period explanatory reporting; quoted earlier journalism is not independent evidence of every Maya view."
},
"regional-chichen-20261012": {
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"scope": "Description, Outstanding Universal Value and criteria (ii)–(iii)",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza",
"note": "The older “Maya-Toltec” label is a heritage description; it does not settle mechanisms of political contact or conquest."
},
"regional-palenque-20261012": {
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"scope": "PDF pp. 2–3: city, water management, Pakal’s crypt and Ruz’s 1952 discovery; p. 5: living Ch’ol and Tzeltal communities",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Palenque, Chiapas: site guide",
"note": "Accessible official guide used because the anniversary HTML release was blocked. Only year precision is asserted for the discovery."
},
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"scope": "Opening publication-history paragraph and “The Palenque Sarcophagus Lid: Maya Ruler or Ancient Astronaut?”",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
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},
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "History of Decipherment",
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Cracking the Maya Code: transcript",
"note": "Selected transcript passages read, not a viewing of the April 8, 2008 episode. Compare the scholarly chronology for publication dates."
},
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"scope": "Publisher description, editors, publication date and contents overview",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing",
"note": "Publisher metadata only; the 572-page anthology was not read."
},
"regional-popol-vuh-20261012": {
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"scope": "“What is the Popol Vuh?” and manuscript/digital-access sections",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Popol Vuh: research guide",
"note": "Guide and manuscript transmission read, not the entire manuscript or every translation. Ximénez’s copy is dated 1700–1715; a sixteenth-century predecessor is inferred."
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"regional-maya-lidar-20261012": {
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala",
"note": "Abstract inspected; complete paper, survey outputs and field validation not reanalyzed."
},
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Overview, chronology, monumental architecture and apartment compounds",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Teotihuacan",
"note": "City and building phases span centuries. Population figures are archaeological estimates; specific builders’ language and political arrangements remain debated."
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Feathered serpent head (00.5.111)",
"note": "Curatorial attribution, not evidence that every serpent image across cultures means the same thing."
},
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Feathered serpent pendant (2020.386.1)",
"note": "Object-specific period and religious interpretation; not the origin date of the deity or tradition."
},
"regional-tenochtitlan-20261012": {
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Tenochtitlan",
"note": "The selected span follows the major construction phase, not a verified founding day."
},
"regional-florentine-20261012": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Bilingual and Bicultural Manuscript; named Nahua collaborators; Book 12 and differing Spanish/Nahuatl narratives",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Competing Narratives on the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire",
"note": "Article initially published March 26, 2020 and updated October 30, 2023. Digital manuscript viewer timed out; no full-codex reading claimed."
},
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"scope": "Book titles and descriptions: gods, ceremonies, astrology, Sun/Moon/stars and binding the years",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Florentine Codex: CONA 700009561",
"note": "Catalogue-only contents support. This older authority record dates the manuscript ca. 1578–1580; the newer project uses completion in 1577 and takes precedence here."
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests",
"note": "Acre, Brazil case studies; conclusions cannot be extended uniformly to all Amazonia."
},
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"scope": "Abstract and main: Casarabe chronology, Llanos de Mojos, platforms, causeways and water management; DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon",
"note": "Study is in Bolivia, not Brazil. Selected text inspected; no independent survey or excavation."
},
"regional-amazon-lidar-20261012": {
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"scope": "Abstract and bibliographic record obtained from Europe PMC REST, EXT_ID 37797008; DOI 10.1126/science.ade2541",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
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"note": "24 detected earthworks and basin-wide prediction are different results. Europe PMC article page/PubMed showed limited text; abstract read through the public metadata API."
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Peripato et al. 2023 study",
"note": "Research-team explanation of the same study, not independent corroboration."
},
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"scope": "Fundo OVNI authorship/custody, types of reports and consultation instructions",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Conheça o fundo sobre OVNIs do Arquivo Nacional",
"note": "Archival description explains provenance and access, not authentication of non-human causes."
},
"regional-prato-access-20261012": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "PDF pp. 1–4: applicant’s alleged missing Prato material, COMAER responses and administrative disposition",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Decisão CMRI nº 205/2023: NUP 60110.000472/2023-41",
"note": "Records the dispute and official responses; it does not audit completeness, establish destruction or validate footage or injury claims."
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"regional-brazil-1986-20261012": {
"inspectedOn": "2026-10-12",
"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "May 19, 1986 narrative and reproduced pilot-report reference BR_DFANBSB_ARX_256_p0005_0005",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Série Relatos Extraterrestres: Noite Oficial dos OVNIs",
"note": "Publication stamp August 15, 2017; body also retains July 26, 2017 attribution. Incident date is distinct. Raw radar and audio not analyzed."
},
"regional-trindade-20261012": {
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"mode": "supporting-text",
"scope": "Scan PDF p. 2: January 16, 1958 case card and skeptical photographic assessment; selected later OCR clippings",
"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Project Blue Book: Trindade Island case file (archival scan)",
"note": "PDF downloaded; case-card image visually inspected and selected OCR passages read. Mixed-origin compilation, not original negatives or a complete Navy investigation."
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "Inquérito Policial Militar n. 18/1997",
"note": "Finding aid inspected. Its description dates alleged capture January 20, 1996; it does not corroborate that allegation."
},
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"basis": "Named supporting passages and metadata inspected in this manual regional pass. No full film viewing, full-book reading, raw-data analysis or exhaustive archive review.",
"accessStatus": "Supporting text accessible during review; linked media may have separate restrictions.",
"originGroup": "“ET de Varginha” foi revelado em inquérito de militares; veja as alegações",
"note": "Reporting about the 1997 inquiry was inspected; the complete underlying two-volume process was not reviewed. Official response is attributed."
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"grusch-icig-complaint": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The publication reported the complaint’s existence and timing. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "A complaint’s procedural treatment is not a finding that alleged non-human craft exist. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "grusch23",
"supports": "The publication reported the complaint’s existence and timing. Source passage: Grusch interview; account of complaints and documents"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"house-hearing-2022": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "An open hearing created a public oversight record; a forum for testimony is not proof of every statement made there.",
"limitations": "A hearing is a forum for scrutiny, not a certification of every statement made. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hearing22",
"supports": "The official transcript documents the hearing and officials’ testimony. Source passage: PDF opening, witness list and opening statements"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nasa-study-announced": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "NASA publicly defined a bounded study of data and methods, rather than launching a confirmed discovery program.",
"limitations": "The announcement was not a conclusion about any reported object. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nasa-study",
"supports": "NASA’s public chronology documents the study announcement. Source passage: Study announcement, public meeting and report milestones"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"aaro-created": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A standing cross-domain office consolidated a defense investigation remit; institutional establishment is distinct from its results.",
"limitations": "An office’s mandate is not evidence for a particular origin hypothesis. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "odni22",
"supports": "The July 20 announcement describes the July 15 direction and AARO’s expanded remit. Source passage: PDF p. 4, Scope and Assumptions"
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-announcement-mirror",
"supports": "July 20 public announcement describing July 15 direction and AOIMSG succession."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"grusch-public": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The article records his allegations and others’ supporting statements. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "It does not publicly authenticate recovered non-human technology. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "grusch23",
"supports": "The article records his allegations and others’ supporting statements. Source passage: Grusch interview; account of complaints and documents"
},
{
"sourceId": "hearing2023-full",
"supports": "Grusch’s later testimony records substantially the same attributed allegations, not independent physical corroboration."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"disclosure-proposal": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The proposal exposed a possible disclosure mechanism to debate; the proposed regime was not enacted in this form.",
"limitations": "Introduction does not establish chamber passage or enactment; later law must be read separately. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "schumer23",
"supports": "The sponsors’ release documents what they introduced. Source passage: Release dated July 14; proposal summary"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"house-hearing-2023": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Public testimony made different kinds of firsthand and relayed claims available for comparison under congressional oversight.",
"limitations": "Sworn testimony is evidence of an account, not independent verification of its explanation or of alleged recovered material. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hearing23",
"supports": "Grusch’s prepared statement attributes recovery-program information to others; Fravor described his own encounter. Source passage: Hearing date, witness list and linked statements"
},
{
"sourceId": "grusch-statement",
"supports": "Grusch’s prepared statement attributes recovery-program information to others; Fravor described his own encounter. Source passage: PDF pp. 1–3"
},
{
"sourceId": "fravor",
"supports": "Grusch’s prepared statement attributes recovery-program information to others; Fravor described his own encounter. Source passage: PDF pp. 1–3"
},
{
"sourceId": "hearing2023-full",
"supports": "Witness roles, opening statements and questions; Grusch attributes biological-recovery claims to others."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nasa-report": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The report offered a public, reproducible research agenda and identified missing data; it did not confirm an extraterrestrial explanation.",
"limitations": "This was not a comprehensive resolution of military case files. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nasa-study",
"supports": "The report emphasizes better observations and reproducible analysis; it found no conclusive extraterrestrial evidence in the peer-reviewed literature considered. Source passage: Study announcement, public meeting and report milestones"
},
{
"sourceId": "nasa-report",
"supports": "The report emphasizes better observations and reproducible analysis; it found no conclusive extraterrestrial evidence in the peer-reviewed literature considered. Source passage: Recommendations and printed p. 25 (PDF p. 26)"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"archives-law": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Enacted law created a UAP records collection and disclosure procedures, a bounded but real change in archival access.",
"limitations": "The law does not certify the truth of allegations in records or guarantee immediate, complete disclosure. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ndaa24",
"supports": "Public Law 118-31, sections 1841–1843, provides collection and disclosure procedures, including grounds for postponement. Source passage: Public Law 118-31, UAP records collection provisions"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"aaro-history-report": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A public retrospective records one office's historical findings; agency conclusions remain bounded by the sources and scope reviewed.",
"limitations": "It does not identify every unresolved object. The official report host was inaccessible; selected passages of a primary-document mirror were inspected. This is not a comprehensive audit of the report or its underlying cases. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aaro-history",
"supports": "The reported finding is an institutional conclusion. Source passage: Report release and AARO findings"
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-history-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "Original report’s stated scope and conclusions; an agency assessment, not authentication of every allegation reviewed."
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": "Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"house-hearing-2024": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "A further public hearing extended the oversight record, with less additional introductory value than the 2023 testimony anchor.",
"limitations": "The hearing’s title and the witnesses’ participation do not validate every underlying allegation. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hearing24",
"supports": "The committee’s hearing page establishes the date and witnesses. Source passage: Date and witness list"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"annual-report-2024": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Published intake partitions help distinguish reporting volume from a census of anomalous craft.",
"limitations": "The executive summary gives 118 resolved plus 174 pending finalization; the body gives 49 resolved plus 243 recommended for closure. Both sum to 292, but the partitions differ. No unsupported reconciliation is imposed. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "annual24",
"supports": "The original report’s executive summary and detailed results describe different partitions of a 292-report group. Source passage: Annual report and director’s briefing"
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-fy24-doe",
"supports": "757 = 485 current-period + 272 older reports; executive p. 2 and detailed pp. 4–5 have different 292-report partitions."
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-fy24-odni-page",
"supports": "November 14, 2024 publication date."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"senate-hearing-2024": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "A director's Senate statement made the institutional position accessible but substantially overlaps the report sequence.",
"limitations": "An institutional assessment is not a case-by-case demonstration that every observation has been explained. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "senate24",
"supports": "His statement says AARO had found no verifiable extraterrestrial evidence while some cases still required investigation. Source passage: Hearing date and witness"
},
{
"sourceId": "kosloski",
"supports": "His statement says AARO had found no verifiable extraterrestrial evidence while some cases still required investigation. Source passage: PDF pp. 1–3"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nara-first-release": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The first collection transfer implemented a statutory access process; release and the truth of underlying reports remain separate.",
"limitations": "Collection membership does not authenticate every account or establish that all responsive records have arrived. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nara-first",
"supports": "The release notice identifies the initial contributing agencies and continuing transfers. Source passage: Release date and contributing agencies"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"house-hearing-2025": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "Another hearing expanded publicly inspectable oversight testimony without establishing the recovery allegations.",
"limitations": "Witness testimony remains attributed; holding a hearing does not adjudicate its claims. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hearing25",
"supports": "The official page lists the hearing and witnesses, including Dylan Borland and Jeffrey Nuccetelli. Source passage: Date and witness list"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"presidential-announcement": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The report records the announcement, rather than an inspected executive order. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "It is not evidence that all records were immediately declassified or that alleged non-human origins were confirmed. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "trump26",
"supports": "The report records the announcement, rather than an inspected executive order. Source passage: February 19 statement as reported February 20 UTC"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pursue-first-release": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The initial file release broadened access to a particular corpus, not to authenticated evidence of an extraordinary origin.",
"limitations": "Raw files can lack decisive context. The official portal was inaccessible to this audit; no independent analysis of every file is claimed. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "pursue-first",
"supports": "The publication describes the released material and interviews researchers and officials about its limits. Source passage: May 8 release and limits of the files"
},
{
"sourceId": "pursue-first-ap",
"supports": "Contemporaneous account of the May 8 public release and limits of the disclosed material."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"annual-report-2026": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A report's corrected intake arithmetic clarifies the reporting system but supports no forecast of long-term consequence.",
"limitations": "The listed dispositions total 317. Two merger actions are consistent with the difference from 319, but that numerical reconciliation is an inference, not an explicit report statement. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "annual26",
"supports": "The original report gives 284 + 35 = 319; the accompanying news article’s 25 older reports is erroneous. The earlier timeline did not repeat that component error. Source passage: FY2025 report, reporting window and aggregate count"
},
{
"sourceId": "fy25-original-mirror",
"supports": "Executive summary and report pp. 4–5: 319 intake, 35 older reports, disposition totals and two merger actions."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"historical-archive-plan": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The article describes an intended base year with four optional years. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "This is not evidence of a contract award. The notice’s exact date was not verified from readable procurement text. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "archive26",
"supports": "The article describes an intended base year with four optional years. Source passage: Proposed archive access and contract options"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pursue-waiver": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The reproduced announcement describes civil and administrative relief under specified secrecy agreements for this channel. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The operative signed waiver was not inspected. Do not infer blanket public-disclosure permission, criminal immunity or confirmation of any allegation. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "waiver26",
"supports": "The reproduced announcement describes civil and administrative relief under specified secrecy agreements for this channel. Source passage: Announcement and reporting-channel restrictions"
},
{
"sourceId": "waiver-reprint",
"supports": "The reproduced announcement describes civil and administrative relief under specified secrecy agreements for this channel. Source passage: Reproduced September 14 announcement"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pursue-sixth-release": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 1,
"rationale": "A sixth release adds material within the same disclosure sequence; the initial release is the clearer introductory anchor.",
"limitations": "The inaccessible original manifest prevents an independently verified file count here. Releasing a record does not validate its explanation. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "pursue-sixth",
"supports": "The dated coverage documents the release announcement. Source passage: Dated report and release description"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nasa-public-meeting-2023": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "Public study deliberation added procedural transparency, largely supporting the later final report.",
"limitations": "This establishes a public scientific meeting, not an identified origin for UAP. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nasa-study",
"supports": "NASA’s meeting notice and retrospective caption document the meeting. Source passage: Study announcement, public meeting and report milestones"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"leonardo-flight-notebook": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The notebook preserves observation-led analysis of flight, a bounded contribution to the history of technical investigation.",
"limitations": "This source supplies no connection to UFO technology, NHI or later classified programs. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "leonardo-flight",
"supports": "compilation range and subject of the codex"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"bbh-formation": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "The combination establishes a specific banking institution's lineage, useful context for distinguishing later financial claims.",
"limitations": "An interested institutional history is not an incorporation filing. BBH and Union Banking Corporation must not be treated as the same legal entity. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "bbh-timeline",
"supports": "1931 formation chronology"
},
{
"sourceId": "bbh-prescott",
"supports": "Prescott Bush role and retrospective date qualification"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"einstein-szilard-letter": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A specific advocacy letter urged state attention to nuclear research; it explains a documented policy intervention without making Einstein a bomb designer.",
"limitations": "Signing this letter does not establish that Einstein worked on the Manhattan Project or supplied an exotic propulsion theory. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "doe-chronology",
"supports": "letter date and scientific-policy context"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"oss-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A wartime military order organized intelligence work under the Joint Chiefs; later succession cannot be reduced to a simple rename.",
"limitations": "The OSS did not simply become the CIA under a new name; intermediate organizations and transfers intervened. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "oss-history",
"supports": "establishment, supervision and abolition"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"manhattan-district": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The district administered an actual atomic-weapons program; this administrative anchor has less teaching value than the test and its human consequences.",
"limitations": "This administrative record establishes no link to recovered craft. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "doe-chronology",
"supports": "August 13 order"
},
{
"sourceId": "aec-history",
"supports": "August 16 effective date and later transfer"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"union-banking-vesting": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A vesting order changed control of identified shares and debt; it does not establish the larger alleged banking network.",
"limitations": "Registered and beneficial ownership are different. The order concerns UBC, not a seizure of BBH itself; it does not demonstrate a UFO program or establish every director’s knowledge or intent. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ubc-order",
"supports": "scope, execution date, registered shares and attributed beneficial-ownership finding"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"tesla-papers-review": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The reported papers review helps separate a document examination from a working technology; its underlying file was not freshly inspected here.",
"limitations": "The underlying file was not directly inspected in this audit. A review of papers does not establish a functioning device, a transfer to UFO research or access to every Tesla record. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "tesla-papers",
"supports": "1943 examination and attributed assessment"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"maison-rouge-report": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The report preserved an informant's meeting account, an instructive example of attribution without verified implementation.",
"limitations": "It is not a meeting transcript or independent verification of implementation. It does not establish a gathering of “14 bankers,” or a chain connecting the meeting to UFO programs. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "red-house-original-v2",
"supports": "report date, attributed meeting date and reported participants"
},
{
"sourceId": "red-house-audit",
"supports": "provenance and cautions about interpretation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"trinity-test": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 8,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "The first atomic test demonstrated a destructive physical capability that the subsequent bombings made materially consequential; the test is distinct from deployment.",
"limitations": "Proximity in time or geography is not evidence that nuclear testing caused UFO activity. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "doe-chronology",
"supports": "Trinity date and place"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"aec-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The law assigned atomic administration to a civilian commission; creation and operational transfer are different dated changes.",
"limitations": "Creation by law and transfer of operations are separate; neither establishes possession of non-human technology. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aec-history",
"supports": "statutory establishment"
},
{
"sourceId": "doe-chronology",
"supports": "January 1, 1947 transfer"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"arnold-report": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A widely discussed pilot report anchors postwar flying-saucer reporting; source coverage supports an account and public response, not a measured speed or origin.",
"limitations": "Estimated speed and the objects’ origin are not calibrated measurements established by this historical summary. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "bluebook-history",
"supports": "date and Arnold report"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"roswell-press-release": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A contradictory official announcement and explanation became a durable case-history anchor; neither announcement authenticates a non-human craft.",
"limitations": "The announcement does not authenticate an extraterrestrial craft. This date is the announcement date, not a proven crash date. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "gao-roswell",
"supports": "July 8 announcement, subsequent explanation and surviving records"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"national-security-act": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "The act reorganized U.S. defense and foreign-policy coordination through the NSC, CIA and a separate Air Force, with enduring institutional reach.",
"limitations": "The law’s existence provides no evidence for a hidden UFO mandate. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nsc-history",
"supports": "NSC establishment under the act"
},
{
"sourceId": "cia-history",
"supports": "CIA statutory and effective dates"
},
{
"sourceId": "usaf-history",
"supports": "Department of the Air Force establishment"
},
{
"sourceId": "editorial-national-security-reorganization",
"supports": "The act reorganized U.S. military and foreign-policy institutions and established the coordination framework."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"cia-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The new agency began within the act's framework; for a short introduction the law explains more than the separate effective date.",
"limitations": "A document’s presence in CIA files does not establish CIA authorship, endorsement or a successful operation. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "cia-history",
"supports": "effective date and predecessor"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"project-sign": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "A military order began a named UFO study effort; the administrative beginning says nothing about exotic origin.",
"limitations": "The order date is not a finding that the reported objects had an exotic origin. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "bluebook-history",
"supports": "Sign order and later assessment"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"blue-book-created": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The successor program organized a substantial official UFO case record, distinguishable from the claims it investigated.",
"limitations": "An investigation establishes official attention, not the explanation for every case. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "bluebook-history",
"supports": "March 1952 order and program succession"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"wcc-donovan-memo": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The contemporaneous memo identifies WCC president Frank Ryan and the representation in this matter. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "It neither establishes WCC’s exact formation date nor proves OSS ownership, an intelligence mission or a UFO connection. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "wcc-memo-v2",
"supports": "WCC proposal, named president and Donovan law-firm representation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nsa-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A presidential memorandum established a signals-intelligence institution; this consequence is institutional rather than a claim about every intercepted report.",
"limitations": "Its existence does not authenticate every intercepted or filed account. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nsa-history",
"supports": "authorization and effective dates"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"arpa-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "An advanced defense-research agency created a durable organizational vehicle for technical projects, without validating speculative technologies attributed to it.",
"limitations": "An agency’s research remit is not evidence that a particular speculative technology worked. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "darpa-history",
"supports": "formation date, official and context"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nasa-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "NASA's creation established a civilian space institution; inspected NASA history links its origin to the Sputnik response and subsequent missions.",
"limitations": "Space exploration is relevant context; its existence is not evidence of contact. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nasa-history",
"supports": "statutory date and October 1 transfer"
},
{
"sourceId": "editorial-sputnik-response",
"supports": "The NASA history documents the institutional response to Sputnik and links it to NASA creation."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"dia-directive": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A directive assigned defense intelligence to a named agency; the authorization does not independently date every subsequent operation.",
"limitations": "This date is the directive, not an independently verified start date for every DIA operation. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "dia-history",
"supports": "directive and establishment"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"nro-agreement": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The agreement organized satellite reconnaissance under a covert office, a bounded institutional change with distinct later acknowledgments.",
"limitations": "The documentary edition warns that the co-directorship did not take effect as written. The record does not establish an exotic vehicle program. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nro-agreement-v2",
"supports": "dated letter, office remit and editorial qualification"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"blue-book-closure": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Ending the program changed the official case-handling route; closure was not a solution to every recorded observation.",
"limitations": "That institutional assessment is not a case-by-case resolution of every unidentified report. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "airforce-ufo-facts",
"supports": "termination date and attributed Air Force conclusions"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"monroe-1971": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The 1983 Army assessment cites the book; the institute describes its own development. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "An autobiographical account is not a controlled demonstration. The institution’s historical labels do not establish an exact incorporation date. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "gateway-report-v2",
"supports": "bibliographic publication year"
},
{
"sourceId": "monroe-history",
"supports": "institution’s own historical account"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"cia-remote-viewing": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Agency-sponsored remote-viewing research created a testable research record; funding did not establish operational success.",
"limitations": "Funding and classified handling do not validate paranormal mechanisms. This entry is a retrospective program date, not a contemporaneous public disclosure. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "air-final-v2",
"supports": "Chapter 1 program history"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"sri-perceptual-research": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "A perceptual-research report documents experiments within the same program sequence; it is supporting detail for the later review.",
"limitations": "These are the investigators’ claims. The excerpt is not an independent replication, and its anonymous subject codes are not converted into named participants here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "sri-report-v2",
"supports": "authors, research period, goals and favorable interpretation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"inscom-established": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: NARA dates consolidation to January 1, 1977. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The command’s formation is not the start date of every later consciousness or remote-viewing project. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nsa-history",
"supports": "Army intelligence consolidation history in 457.2"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"voyager-golden-record": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The mission's curated message makes representation and communication across distance discussable; no recipient or reply is established.",
"limitations": "Sending a message does not establish that it was received, or that extraterrestrial life has been detected. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "voyager-record",
"supports": "Sagan committee role"
},
{
"sourceId": "voyager-overview",
"supports": "1977 launches and record purpose"
},
{
"sourceId": "voyager-1-mission",
"supports": "Voyager 1 launch on 1977-09-05."
},
{
"sourceId": "voyager-2-mission",
"supports": "Voyager 2 launch on 1977-08-20."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"doe-established": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Operational consolidation under DOE changed U.S. energy and atomic administration; the record does not support a non-human technology mandate.",
"limitations": "DOE is not simply the AEC renamed; intermediate reorganizations matter. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "doe-history",
"supports": "law, effective date and predecessor functions"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"gateway-assessment": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: It is an Army-authored assessment preserved among CIA-released records. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "Its speculative physical models and proposed experiments do not establish out-of-body perception, a new physics theory or NHI contact. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "gateway-report-v2",
"supports": "author, date, Army provenance, stated task and conclusions"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"roswell-airforce-assessment": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "The agency's Roswell explanation supplied an inspectable institutional assessment, distinct from independent authentication of every claim.",
"limitations": "An official assessment should be evaluated against its supporting records; the institutional conclusion alone does not answer every later claim. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "airforce-ufo-facts",
"supports": "September 8 announcement and balloon-project assessment"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"roswell-gao-search": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A records search established what the search found and did not find; absence in that search is not universal absence.",
"limitations": "The destruction forms did not establish who destroyed the files or under what authority. That gap does not itself establish concealment of extraterrestrial evidence. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "gao-roswell",
"supports": "report date, search findings and destruction-record limitation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"remote-viewing-review-disagreement": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A documented disagreement about statistics exposes the difference between a result, its interpretation and practical usefulness.",
"limitations": "Statistical significance, causal mechanism and intelligence usefulness are separate claims. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "utts-assessment",
"supports": "Utts’s assessment and replication discussion"
},
{
"sourceId": "hyman-assessment-v2",
"supports": "dated evaluation and methodological disagreement"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"air-remote-viewing-review": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The final review recommended ending intelligence use, a bounded operational judgment rather than a resolution of all consciousness questions.",
"limitations": "This is the reviewers’ conclusion about the reviewed program, not a proof that all conceivable consciousness effects are impossible. It is not itself a termination order. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "air-final-v2",
"supports": "final-report date, scope, executive conclusions and recommendation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "area51-release",
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "vallee-finding-aid",
"supports": "acquisition month, collection scope and access restrictions"
}
],
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The inspected article establishes that this account was publicly reported by March 2017. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "No authenticated 1933 incident record, cabinet record or custody chain was inspected. Repeated stories drawing on Pinotti are not independent corroboration. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "magenta-report",
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}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "It was written by his spouse, Nancy McMoneagle. It does not independently establish claimed operational successes, near-death experiences or paranormal mechanisms. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "monroe-mcmoneagle",
"supports": "date, author, described roles and collaboration"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"limitations": "The memorandum’s administrative classifications and approvals do not establish that remote viewing worked. It is not an independent legal assessment of the entire program. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "center-lane-review-v2",
"supports": "date, author, recommendation and stated program transitions"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The broadcaster’s retrospective dates the interview and preserves excerpts of the claims, with reporting by George Knapp. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "Broadcasting the claim does not establish Lazar’s claimed employment, a recovered craft or the described propulsion. Later Navy footage is not independent authentication of this story. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "lazar-klas-retrospective",
"supports": "original interview date, pseudonym, allegation and broadcaster attribution"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
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"limitations": "This broad range is not a date for every work. Individual compositions, revisions and classifications require text-specific study. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "emmel-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "Greek composition and later Coptic transmission"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
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"limitations": "Neither an exact burial date nor the owners’ reason for depositing the books is established. A later-fourth-century copying range does not date their concealment. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "emmel-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "codex manufacture, cartonnage dating and unknown ownership or burial motive"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
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"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
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"limitations": "The letter does not identify a Nag Hammadi burial. It cannot establish who hid the codices, when, or whether this letter motivated them. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "athanasius-letter39",
"supports": "letter year and distinctions in sections 2–7"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The modern manuscript discovery expanded the accessible evidence for early religious diversity; it did not create the ancient beliefs it reveals.",
"limitations": "The exact find circumstances remain disputed. “December 1945” is a traditional dating, not a verified day; neither persecution nor deliberate doctrinal suppression is established as the burial motive. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "goodacre-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "conventional discovery dating and limitations of retrospective accounts"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"learningValue": 2,
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"limitations": "A critical edition does not settle authorship, composition date, relationship to the canonical gospels or the authenticity of sayings attributed to Jesus. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "janssens-thomas",
"supports": "1959 critical edition, sayings numbering and distinction between Thomas texts"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "emmel-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "series bibliography and Egyptian/UNESCO auspices"
},
{
"sourceId": "pearse-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "1972–1984 facsimile publication range"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "assessed",
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"limitations": "Publication is not a moment when the texts were finally or unanimously understood. The complete 1977 volume was not inspected for this entry; no individual translation is authenticated here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "goodacre-nag-hammadi",
"supports": "1977 English collection and 1988 third revised edition, bibliography pp. 321–322"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: Original Book I: sessions 1–26. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The transcripts establish what was recorded and attributed to “Ra”; they do not independently identify a non-human speaker or validate the cosmology. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-1",
"supports": "opening date; unity and attributed Egyptian connection"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-16",
"supports": "service orientations and the text’s density concept"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-directory",
"supports": "session-date range"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
"supports": "original book membership"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-participant-introductions",
"supports": "Elkins as questioner, Rueckert as channel and McCarty’s recording/transcription role"
}
],
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},
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: Original Book II: 27–43 and 46–50. Sessions 44–45 were withheld until Book V. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The transcripts establish what was recorded and attributed to “Ra”; they do not independently identify a non-human speaker or validate the cosmology. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-27",
"supports": "stated Book II transition and selected cosmological concepts"
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{
"sourceId": "ra-session-directory",
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},
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
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}
],
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
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"rationale": "The available passage establishes: Original Book III: sessions 51–75. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The transcripts establish what was recorded and attributed to “Ra”; they do not independently identify a non-human speaker or validate the cosmology. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-54",
"supports": "selected discussion of balancing, energy centers and catalyst"
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{
"sourceId": "ra-session-directory",
"supports": "session-date range"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
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}
],
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},
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: Original Book IV: 76–97, 99–100 and 103. Other late sessions appeared in Book V. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The transcripts establish what was recorded and attributed to “Ra”; they do not independently identify a non-human speaker or validate the cosmology. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-76",
"supports": "archetypal study and attributed account of tarot origins"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-directory",
"supports": "session-date range"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
"supports": "original book membership"
}
],
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The initial four-book set is an edited publication of the session material. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The inspected guide gives a collective publication range, not verified release days for each volume. Publication does not corroborate the claimed source of the teachings. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
"supports": "publication range and omissions"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The directory contains 106 numbered sessions, beginning January 15, 1981. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "The archive’s endpoint is not evidence that an external intelligence arrived or departed. Personal and health-related claims in the transcript are not medical findings. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-directory",
"supports": "first and last session dates and numbering"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-session-106",
"supports": "final session date and subjects discussed"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: McCarty’s introduction explains the earlier withholding of predominantly personal material and the later decision to publish it. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "Retrospective commentary is participant testimony, not independent corroboration. This is a 1998 publication of older material, not new Ra sessions in 1998. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
"supports": "1998 release and restored material"
},
{
"sourceId": "ra-participant-introductions",
"supports": "Book V’s stated purpose and personal commentary"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: This is a new edition of earlier material, not a new channeling series. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "Editorial completeness does not establish the claimed speaker’s identity or the truth of the content. The linked L/L Research legacy downloads could not be inspected; the edition mapping comes from the editor’s guide. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ra-book-guide",
"supports": "2018 edition, transcript basis and volume boundaries"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"historicalImpact": 3,
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"rationale": "An Air Force response placed capital-area sightings in an official public record; radar and visual accounts remain distinct from explanations.",
"limitations": "The archived-film description was read; the entire recording and original radar plots were not inspected. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "washington-film-nara",
"supports": "July 31, 1952 film, local identifier 111-LC-30875; distinction from the earlier press conference"
},
{
"sourceId": "bluebook-history",
"supports": "Blue Book chronology and Washington exhibit material"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A panel made specific recommendations about reports and public education, not proof that every case had one explanation.",
"limitations": "The inspected text is an NCAS reproduction of the original report, not the government-hosted scan. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "robertson-panel",
"supports": "Appendix U; meeting dates, covering memorandum, conclusions and recommendations, printed pp. 1394–1421"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A targeted radio experiment turned a question about other intelligence into an observational search with explicit limits.",
"limitations": "The date remains April 1960: NRAO’s chronology gives April 11, while the introduction to Drake’s retrospective gives April 8. No exact-day resolution is imposed. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ozma-nrao",
"supports": "NRAO historical timeline, 1960/Project Ozma entry"
},
{
"sourceId": "ozma-drake-account",
"supports": "Drake’s Green Bank observing account identifies the two targets and describes identifying a promising signal as terrestrial interference."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A reported water entry prompted a search; rescue activity establishes a response, not the object's extraordinary origin.",
"limitations": "The two records share an official reporting chain and are not two independent confirmations of a craft. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "shag-harbour-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "PDF pp. 10–11, October 5 message and October 6 memorandum; both visually read; RG 77, vol. 310"
},
{
"sourceId": "shag-harbour-primary",
"supports": "LAC legacy record index, item 4725, provenance only"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A commissioned scientific review produced inspectable conclusions and methods, a bounded policy and inquiry milestone.",
"limitations": "Completion, institutional issue and the 1969 public book editions should not be collapsed into one exact day. January 9, 1969 was not independently established here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "condon-conclusions",
"supports": "Section I, Conclusions and Recommendations"
},
{
"sourceId": "colorado-archive",
"supports": "Paragraph describing the Condon papers and 1968 report"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
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"rationale": "An official report preserved interception accounts; it demonstrates recorded testimony rather than complete calibrated data.",
"limitations": "The original government-hosted PDF returned 403; an archival reproduction was inspected, including visual checking of the incident-date page. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "iran-routing-mirror",
"supports": "PDF pp. 3–6, message and source note; p. 4 visually inspected"
},
{
"sourceId": "iran-original-page",
"supports": "NSA catalog entry identifying Routing Slip UFO Iran"
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A civilian space agency established a public investigation channel within France, providing a useful institutional comparison.",
"limitations": "Present-day percentages are a changing database snapshot, not the unexplained fraction of everything seen in the sky. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "cnes-geipan",
"supports": "History and Methodology/classification sections; institutional page updated July 7, 2025"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"operation-prato-1977": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "An investigation produced a geographically specific case corpus; reports and medical claims require separate scrutiny.",
"limitations": "The earlier historical webpage now blocks retrieval; its prior inspection is preserved. Raw imagery, medical records and the full field archive were not reviewed here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "brazil-archival-history",
"supports": "Operation Prato/Colares paragraphs and notes"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-brazil-archive-20261012",
"supports": "Fundo OVNI authorship/custody, types of reports and consultation instructions"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-prato-access-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 1–4: applicant’s alleged missing Prato material, COMAER responses and administrative disposition"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Filmed lights became an inspectable media and encounter record, with identification still dependent on competing accounts.",
"limitations": "The official archive caption was read; the complete flight film, radar data and investigation file were not reviewed. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "nz-archives-kaikoura",
"supports": "official Archives New Zealand caption and archival reference"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Military personnel's reported experiences entered a document trail; documentation is distinct from explaining the observations.",
"limitations": "Use month precision until the differing night-by-night chronologies are checked against original documents. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "uk-ufo-guide",
"supports": "Rendlesham Forest section and associated file/release references"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Instrumented fieldwork supplied measurements to a local anomaly question, teaching how methods can improve a report sequence.",
"limitations": "This is an investigator’s report, not independent replication or a peer-reviewed demonstration of a novel mechanism. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hessdalen-1984",
"supports": "introduction; §§4.3–4.7; discussion/conclusion; January 5, 1985 signature"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "An air-defense response documented a national encounter episode, with incomplete public sensor evidence limiting interpretation.",
"limitations": "Raw radar, instrument calibration and complete radio recordings were not analyzed here. Described performance should not be treated as independently measured. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "brazil-ufo-series",
"supports": "May 19, 1986 incident and pilot-report reference"
},
{
"sourceId": "brazil-1986-recordings",
"supports": "archive-hosted press clipping, attribution and later audio-release description"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-brazil-1986-20261012",
"supports": "May 19, 1986 narrative and reproduced pilot-report reference BR_DFANBSB_ARX_256_p0005_0005"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-brazil-archive-20261012",
"supports": "Fundo OVNI authorship/custody, types of reports and consultation instructions"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A mathematical metric clarified a theoretical possibility and its constraints; no practical faster-than-light device followed from the paper alone.",
"limitations": "No laboratory vehicle, power source, control system or practical deployment is demonstrated. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "alcubierre-paper",
"supports": "Classical and Quantum Gravity 11, L73–L77; energy-density discussion and conclusions; arXiv gr-qc/0009013"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The paper established an observational planet claim around a Sun-like star and a method to test it; earlier pulsar planets retain priority in a different domain.",
"limitations": "This is not the first exoplanet of every type; earlier pulsar planets must not be erased. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "51peg-paper",
"supports": "original Nature 378, 355–359 PDF; first page and printed issue footer, November 23, 1995"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A contested biosignature interpretation stimulated testable alternatives; the reported possibility is distinct from life detection.",
"limitations": "The 1996 full scan was retrieved but not comprehensively read; this proposed summary rests on the authors’ abstract. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "alh1996-ntrs",
"supports": "author abstract and publication metadata, NTRS 20040173162"
},
{
"sourceId": "alh84001-nasa-update",
"supports": "January 18, 2022 research account of abiotic synthesis"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A national archival release expanded access to a UFO corpus, not the truth of all documents within it.",
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "uk-ufo-guide",
"supports": "introduction and public-release chronology"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
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"status": "assessed",
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"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A workshop organized possible observational search methods; recommendations are not implemented discoveries.",
"limitations": "The report’s introductory and scope passages were reviewed, not every contributed method or referenced dataset. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "technosignature-report",
"supports": "introduction, workshop dates and four goals; report opening sections"
}
],
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},
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"learningValue": 4,
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "emdrive-paper",
"supports": "abstract, experimental discussion and online-publication metadata"
},
{
"sourceId": "emdrive-dnb-pdf",
"supports": "full-paper copy, experimental controls and conclusion"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Interference analysis resolved one promising candidate and demonstrated how additional tests can overturn an initial interpretation.",
"limitations": "Companion papers from the same campaign are not independent detections or replications. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "blc1-nature",
"supports": "abstract, interference/intermodulation analysis and publication history"
}
],
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "An announced coordination successor fills a procedural sequence; the released briefing card does not substitute for the operative memorandum.",
"limitations": "The inspected primary record is a released public-affairs briefing card, not the operative memorandum itself. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aoimsg-briefing",
"supports": "OSD(PA) briefing card, November 23, 2021, printed pp. 1–3; FOIA 22-F-0381"
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-announcement-mirror",
"supports": "July 20, 2022 government release reproduction describing the earlier direction"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A statement distinguished separate objects and described detection changes, illuminating how surveillance affects apparent report volume.",
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "biden-objects2023",
"supports": "DCPD-202300116, February 16 remarks, passages on three objects and radar scrutiny"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Materials testing constrained a specific extraordinary specimen claim; commissioned analysis and sponsor interpretation are not independent replications.",
"limitations": "ORNL and AARO are a commissioned analysis and its sponsor’s interpretation, not two independent laboratory replications. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ornl-lab-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "synopsis, methods, isotope plots and conclusion, printed pp. 1–8"
},
{
"sourceId": "ornl-supplement-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "July 2024 overview and conclusions, pp. 1–3"
},
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"sourceId": "tts-ornl-analysis-correct",
"supports": "publisher response, paragraph acknowledging no proof of exotic origin"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A geometric assessment explained apparent speed in one recording while leaving object identification unresolved.",
"limitations": "The inspected copy is a mirror; the government-hosted document returned 403. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "gofast-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "Case Resolution, February 6, 2025; executive assessment and methodology"
},
{
"sourceId": "nasa-report",
"supports": "earlier GOFAST/parallax example"
}
],
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},
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"rationale": "A proposed case explanation and request for reproducibility clarify the distinction between assessment confidence and open data.",
"limitations": "The recording dates to April 26, 2013; neither 2025 date is the encounter date. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "puertorico-mirror-pdf",
"supports": "Case Resolution, March 20, 2025; confidence statements and reconstruction"
},
{
"sourceId": "scu-aguadilla-response",
"supports": "April 28, 2025, five technical questions"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
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"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A recent potential biosignature finding establishes a bounded research question, not confirmed Martian life or predicted future importance.",
"limitations": "A potential biosignature is not a confirmed biological detection. Abiotic alternatives require further testing. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "mars2025-paper",
"supports": "abstract, abiotic alternatives, discussion and conclusion; DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-09413-0"
},
{
"sourceId": "nasa-mars2025",
"supports": "NASA release 25-061, September 10, 2025"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The available passage establishes: The June 17 article includes separate accounts from Loeb and an ODNI official. For this record, the inspected evidence does not sufficiently establish enduring consequences or comparative introductory value to assign scores.",
"limitations": "No founding charter, appointment instrument, complete membership record or original meeting minutes were inspected. This is an evidence-coverage limit, not a finding of low significance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "science-council-report",
"supports": "June 17, 2026 article; ODNI official on board formation and Loeb on council remit"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"navy-bray-records-release-2026": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "A FOIA response made a specified correspondence corpus accessible; only the release letter and publication account received bounded review.",
"limitations": "Only the release letter and publisher’s account were reviewed in depth; the 1,019 released correspondence pages were not audited. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-bray-foia",
"supports": "PDF pp. 1–3, September 23, 2026 response letter"
},
{
"sourceId": "navy-bray-release",
"supports": "September 24 publication and description of collection"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"aaro-workshop-records-published-2026": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 2,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "Publication exposed a workshop agenda and planned exchanges, not a proven international scientific result.",
"limitations": "September 25 dates the requester’s publication; it is not the workshop date or agency response date. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aaro-workshop-foia",
"supports": "cover response; working agenda last updated August 5, 2025; email chain headed July 29 and pages numbered 2–6"
},
{
"sourceId": "aaro-workshop-release",
"supports": "September 25, 2026 publication"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Associated fossils and dating expanded evidence for early Homo sapiens across Africa; this score concerns what the evidence reveals, not an invention of humanity at this site.",
"limitations": "The dated material is associated heated flint; the estimate is not a direct calendar date for every fossil. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "richter-jebel-2017",
"supports": "The dating paper reports layer 7's central estimate, 1σ uncertainty and nominal 95% limits, and identifies dating and excavation responsibilities."
},
{
"sourceId": "hublin-jebel-2017-abstract",
"supports": "The abstract reports contrasting facial, dental and braincase characteristics and frames the fossils within a geographically broad African evolutionary process."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"blombos-drawing": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A surviving intentional drawing reveals early graphic practice; its unknown meaning and lack of demonstrated downstream influence constrain impact.",
"limitations": "Context dating estimates the archaeological phase, not the exact moment of drawing. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "henshilwood-blombos-2018",
"supports": "The abstract attributes the lines to ochre application; the figure dates M1 and the adjoining text locates flake L13 in layer CCC."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"aristotle-cosmos": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The text made a systematic argument about bodies and one cosmos inspectable; its premises are not an observational proof of cosmic uniqueness.",
"limitations": "The surviving argument is historical natural philosophy, not evidence that only one planetary system exists. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aristotle-heavens-book1",
"supports": "The translated text sets out motion categories and argues that a cosmos containing all matter cannot have additional material worlds beyond it."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"epicurus-worlds": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "The letter preserved a reasoned plurality-of-worlds argument, an instructive alternative to later observations rather than an ancient detection.",
"limitations": "Ancient ‘worlds’ cannot be equated without qualification with modern exoplanets. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "epicurus-herodotus-hicks",
"supports": "The passage derives an unlimited number of worlds, both similar and dissimilar, from its preceding atomist premises."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
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"limitations": "The following stanza has a conflicting-looking account; the inspected translation discusses this textual difficulty. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "aryabhatiya-clark-1930",
"supports": "The dated verse and editor's chronological explanation were inspected alongside the boat analogy and explicit discussion of conflicting adjacent wording."
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{
"sourceId": "ibn-optics-sabra-1989",
"supports": "The opening sets out rival vision theories and a critical method; chapter 6 argues that visible forms of light and colour produce effects in the eye."
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},
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{
"sourceId": "shen-mengxi-24",
"supports": "The Chinese passage lists needle supports, a slight eastward deviation and the author's uncertainty about its cause."
},
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"sourceId": "ieee-shen-primary-excerpt",
"supports": "The translated excerpt corroborates the needle passage and supplies the conventional 1088 work date."
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},
"al-tusi-astronomy": {
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"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A mathematical construction altered astronomical model building; surviving manuscript diagrams do not establish every proposed later transmission.",
"limitations": "The Arabic treatise was not fully translated or mathematically reconstructed in this review; the diagram's identification follows its custodial catalog. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
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{
"sourceId": "tusi-qdl-or11209",
"supports": "The record distinguishes composition after 1256, the 1289 Hama copy and a diagram identified as the Tusi couple."
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"historicalImpact": 6,
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{
"sourceId": "loc-gutenberg-guide",
"supports": "The guide identifies Mainz production and Fust's partnership, then describes how rubricators and other artisans finished printed copies."
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},
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"rationale": "The book made a calculable Sun-centered arrangement available for criticism; publication did not immediately establish every claim or replace every older model.",
"limitations": "The book's historical planetary model should not be equated in every detail with current astronomy. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "copernicus-book1-rosen",
"supports": "The primary chapter arranges the planets around the Sun, includes Earth's annual orbit and describes the associated apparent planetary motions."
},
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"sourceId": "rochester-copernicus-collection",
"supports": "The collection history distinguishes Copernicus's authorship, Rheticus's mediation, Petreius's press and Osiander's anonymous intervention."
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Observations of Mars supported revision from a circle to an ellipse, a major bounded model change rather than a sudden universal answer.",
"limitations": "The third planetary law belongs to Kepler's later work, not this 1609 publication. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
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{
"sourceId": "kepler-primary-diagram",
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"sourceId": "lindahall-kepler-2023",
"supports": "The collection account identifies the 1609 work, Brahe's observations, the Mars ellipse, the first two laws and the later date of the third law."
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"sourceId": "eth-kepler-1609-catalog",
"supports": "The first-edition catalog identifies the author, work and 1609 imprint."
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},
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"status": "assessed",
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{
"sourceId": "galileo-sidereal-carlos",
"supports": "The original narrative explains telescope construction after receiving news from elsewhere and describes successive observations of the objects near Jupiter."
}
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},
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{
"sourceId": "descartes-discourse-veitch",
"supports": "Descartes introduces the route of his own thinking and sets out four procedures for accepting, dividing, ordering and reviewing problems."
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"sourceId": "utrecht-descartes-1637",
"supports": "The catalog records Descartes, Jan Maire, Leiden and 1637."
}
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},
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{
"sourceId": "newton-principia-1687-text",
"supports": "The original-edition transcription states the three laws and presents the gravitational proposition using quantity of matter."
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"sourceId": "editorial-newton-reception",
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}
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},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 8,
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"rationale": "Induction demonstrated a repeatable interaction later fundamental to electric machines and magnetic recording; apparatus development involved other investigators too.",
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"sourceId": "faraday-first-series",
"supports": "Faraday reports transient induced effects and reversals when experimental magnetic conditions change."
},
{
"sourceId": "ri-faraday-ring",
"supports": "The custodian dates the apparatus experiment and describes the short-lived response in the second coil when the first circuit changed."
},
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"sourceId": "editorial-faraday-applications",
"supports": "Induction has continuing roles in electrical machines and magnetic recording; the demonstration is distinct from later device development."
}
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},
"darwin-wallace-1858": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
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"rationale": "Joint presentation introduced a mechanism of natural selection that remains central to multiple biological fields; the 1858 papers were one step in a longer development.",
"limitations": "These writings do not supply the later genetic account of inheritance. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "darwin-wallace-f350",
"supports": "The covering letter explains independent authorship and presentation; the separate texts argue that differential survival and reproduction preserve variants."
},
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"sourceId": "editorial-darwin-selection",
"supports": "Natural selection remains central across biological research; the 1858 presentation is a dated anchor within that longer development."
}
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},
"maxwell-1865": {
"status": "assessed",
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"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A mathematical theory unified electromagnetic phenomena and light, a major explanatory connection rather than the creation of every later application.",
"limitations": "The paper's mechanical-medium assumptions belong to its historical formulation and should not be silently presented as current requirements. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
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{
"sourceId": "maxwell-dynamical-part1",
"supports": "Maxwell introduces the field account, discusses a mechanical medium and explicitly refers to Faraday and induction."
},
{
"sourceId": "maxwell-dynamical-part6",
"supports": "The paper develops transverse-wave equations, compares electrical and optical measurements and concludes that light is an electromagnetic disturbance."
},
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"sourceId": "maxwell-1865-publication-record",
"supports": "The record verifies the 1865 journal publication and original pagination."
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},
"tesla-1888": {
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"historicalImpact": 6,
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"rationale": "Patented alternating-current motor arrangements gave a practical electrical-machine contribution; industrial electrification cannot be attributed to this patent alone.",
"limitations": "A patent documents this claimed invention; it does not establish that Tesla alone invented alternating current technology. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
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{
"sourceId": "tesla1888-patent",
"supports": "Identifies Tesla, Peck, New York, grant date and the motor mechanism."
}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
"curie-1898": {
"status": "assessed",
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"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Evidence for radium extended knowledge of radioactive matter; the announcement did not itself establish all later medical uses or their risks.",
"limitations": "The sample still contained much barium; this paper did not report isolated pure radium metal. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "curie1898-radium",
"supports": "The report names the authors, contrasts radium with earlier polonium work, and states its evidential basis and remaining barium."
}
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},
"planck-1900": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
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"rationale": "Finite energy elements supplied a crucial step in radiation theory and quantum development; later quantum mechanics was a separate achievement.",
"limitations": "This was a radiation calculation, not the completed quantum mechanics of the 1920s. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "planck1900-translation",
"supports": "Shows Planck’s counting construction, proportionality to frequency and reliance on measured radiation data."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
"wright-1903": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Controlled powered flights demonstrated a technical capability through recorded tests; aircraft diffusion depended on later collective work.",
"limitations": "These were short experimental flights with significant control difficulties, not a mature transport system. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "wright1903-diary",
"supports": "Records the pilots, distances, durations, witness assistance and control and wind problems."
},
{
"sourceId": "wright1903-nps",
"supports": "Corroborates four flights and the first-flight division between Orville as pilot and Wilbur beside the wing."
}
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"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"einstein-1905": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Special relativity reformulated space, time and motion for a specified physical domain, changing rather than abolishing older useful approximations.",
"limitations": "This entry concerns special relativity, not every paper Einstein published in 1905. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "einstein1905-moving-bodies",
"supports": "States the postulates, relativity of measurement and acknowledgment of Besso; edition note identifies the translation."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"rutherford-1911": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Scattering analysis replaced a diffuse atomic model with a concentrated center, a substantial experimentally bounded structural inference.",
"limitations": "Rutherford explicitly states that these deductions did not determine whether the central charge was positive or negative. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "rutherford1911-scattering",
"supports": "Reports the experimental motivation, concentrated-charge inference, Nagaoka reference and explicit uncertainty about sign."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"leavitt-1912": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A relation between variable-star periods and brightness supplied an astronomical distance tool, with calibration and later uses distinct from this initial work.",
"limitations": "The circular calls for determining an absolute distance scale; it did not already supply a calibrated cosmic distance ladder. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "leavitt1912-circular",
"supports": "Establishes Leavitt’s authorship of the analysis, shared-distance assumption, relation and need for an absolute scale."
}
],
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},
"einstein-gr-1915": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
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"rationale": "Field equations changed gravitation into a geometrical theory with testable consequences; later confirmations do not belong to the submission date.",
"limitations": "November 25 is the submission milestone; it should not automatically be treated as the paper’s publication date. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "einstein1915-equations",
"supports": "The original argument relates a curvature tensor to matter’s energy tensor and retains the vacuum equations used for Mercury."
},
{
"sourceId": "einstein1915-caltech",
"supports": "Distinguishes November 25 submission of the field equations from publication that day of the preceding Mercury paper."
}
],
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"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"payne-1925": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Atomic analysis of stellar atmospheres changed the interpretation of stellar composition; collaboration and the broader spectral program remain part of the story.",
"limitations": "The thesis’s qualified wording must not be rewritten as an unqualified announcement of today’s accepted stellar composition. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "payne1925-thesis",
"supports": "Dates the monograph, credits ionization-theory antecedents and preserves the author’s qualified abundance conclusion."
},
{
"sourceId": "payne1925-harvard",
"supports": "Identifies the 1925 publication and Russell’s role in encouraging caution."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"hubble-1925": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Cepheid distances placed spiral nebulae beyond the Milky Way, transforming the demonstrated scale of the astronomical world.",
"limitations": "The 1925 distance scale was preliminary and should not be presented as today’s accepted numerical distances. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hubble1925-cepheids",
"supports": "Reports the variables, applies Shapley’s calibration and states the extragalactic distance conclusion."
},
{
"sourceId": "hubble1925-carnegie",
"supports": "Supports January 1925 announcement and acknowledges Leavitt’s prior period–luminosity contribution."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"lemaitre-1927": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A model connected expansion with measured redshifts; cosmological inference remained dependent on later measurements and alternatives.",
"limitations": "Its distances and estimated expansion rate were preliminary; the 1927 model is not the complete modern cosmological model. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "lemaitre1927-translation",
"supports": "The translated original develops an expanding model and compares it with published velocity/distance data."
},
{
"sourceId": "luminet-lemaitre-editorial",
"supports": "Scholarly account of antecedent observations and the original 1927 paper’s context."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
"quantum-1926": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A wave equation supplied a predictive mathematical framework for atomic energy levels, within a wider collective quantum-mechanics development.",
"limitations": "This first paper does not represent every formulation or interpretation of quantum mechanics. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "schrodinger1926-first-paper",
"supports": "Specifies the hydrogen problem, eigenvalue approach, named antecedents and receipt date."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"hubble-1929": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A velocity-distance relation provided observational evidence to confront expansion models; it neither originated every expansion idea nor settled cosmology alone.",
"limitations": "The inferred distance scale and proportionality constant were preliminary; the paper warns that the range and sample were limited. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "hubble1929-relation",
"supports": "Reports the sample, approximate linear relation, Humason and Strömberg contributions, and explicit scope limits."
},
{
"sourceId": "hubble1925-carnegie",
"supports": "The custodial account credits Slipher’s earlier redshift observations and distinguishes Lemaître’s earlier expansion interpretation."
}
],
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"status": "assessed",
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{
"sourceId": "radar1935-npl",
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
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"rationale": "Formalizing computation exposed what specified machines can calculate and where limits arise; this paper did not itself build modern computers.",
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{
"sourceId": "turing1936-computable",
"supports": "Defines the mathematical object, states the undecidability result and identifies Church’s equivalent formulation."
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"sourceId": "turing1936-bibliography",
"supports": "Explains that the volume bears 1937 but the two publication parts appeared November 23 and December 23, 1936."
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"rationale": "Explaining uranium splitting clarified a mechanism essential to nuclear energy and weapons, without collapsing discovery, reactor operation and weapon deployment.",
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{
"sourceId": "fission1939-meitner-frisch",
"supports": "Documents the authors’ explanation of Hahn–Strassmann findings and distinguishes it from new experiments still under way."
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"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 5,
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"sourceId": "shannon1948-theory",
"supports": "States publication months, predecessors, engineering scope and the existence of reliable coding under channel limits."
},
{
"sourceId": "shannon1948-bell-record",
"supports": "Corroborates the July 1948 publication and reproduces the introduction."
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],
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{
"sourceId": "dna1953-model",
"supports": "States the two-chain model, complementary pairing, tentative copying implication and acknowledgment of King’s researchers and Donohue."
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{
"sourceId": "dna1953-kings",
"supports": "Identifies Franklin–Gosling’s 1952 image and the three-paper April 25, 1953 publication sequence."
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"sourceId": "dna1953-nature-record",
"supports": "Establishes the April 25 publication date and Cambridge authorship."
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{
"sourceId": "dna1953-kings-authorship",
"supports": "Identifies the authors of the three accompanying DNA papers, including Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson as co-authors with Wilkins."
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A controlled beta-decay experiment contradicted assumed parity symmetry in one interaction, a field-specific correction rather than evidence for metaphysical claims.",
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{
"sourceId": "wu1957-parity-paper",
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{
"sourceId": "wu1957-nist-history",
"supports": "Dates the experiments to late 1956 and identifies the NBS collaborators and their roles in nuclear polarization measurements."
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"supports": "States the descriptive framework and James’s methodological opposition to beginning with isolated sensations."
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"sourceId": "cajal1888-birds",
"supports": "The scan’s extracted Spanish text records the exact issue date, Golgi methods and qualified observation of endings around Purkinje cells."
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"supports": "The history dates the Tyuratam launch, describes the radio-equipped satellite and identifies the policy response to the Soviet accomplishment."
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{
"sourceId": "sputnik-harford",
"supports": "The account separates Korolev’s direction from Khomyakov’s design responsibility and Ivanovsky’s coordination of production and launch work."
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"sourceId": "editorial-sputnik-response",
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"rationale": "A paper specified a feasible observational radio-search question, without recording a detection of another intelligence.",
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{
"sourceId": "cocconi-morrison-reprint",
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{
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"sourceId": "gagarin-nasa-resource",
"supports": "The caption identifies the April 12 Vostok orbital flight and gives a duration of 108 minutes."
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"historicalImpact": 3,
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"sourceId": "bell-1964-paper",
"supports": "The paper specifies locality, derives its incompatibility with certain quantum correlations, and identifies a changing-settings experiment as crucial."
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"rationale": "Microwave measurements with a hot-universe interpretation supplied strong observational constraints on cosmology, with further spectral tests still needed.",
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"sourceId": "cmb-penzias-wilson-paper",
"supports": "The authors report the excess after subtracting atmospheric and instrumental contributions and point to the companion interpretation."
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"sourceId": "cmb-dicke-paper",
"supports": "The team discusses radiation cooling through expansion, identifies Roll and Wilkinson’s instrument, and treats the cosmological conclusion as conditional on further spectral evidence."
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"sourceId": "pulsar-csiro-history",
"supports": "The institutional account gives November 28 for the fast recording and February 24, 1968 for publication."
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"status": "assessed",
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"rationale": "Landed laboratories performed direct soil-life tests on Mars; ambiguous chemistry did not establish living organisms.",
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"supports": "The page gives the landing dates, bounds the biology result to sampled soils, and assigns responsibilities for the experimental program."
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"rationale": "Direct gravitational-wave observation added a measurement channel for astronomy; the recorded signal and later public interpretation have different dates.",
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},
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"sourceId": "hensen-bell-crossmark",
"supports": "The record gives online publication October 21, 2015 and print publication October 2015; it displays current status."
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"rationale": "A preregistered comparison made rival consciousness predictions testable; its recent result has no demonstrated civilization-wide consequences.",
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"rationale": "Galaxy rotation measurements strengthened a mass-distribution problem with instrument-enabled evidence, leaving the physical explanation open.",
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"sourceId": "rubin-ford-1970-paper",
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"sourceId": "rubin-carnegie-context",
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"supports": "The record distinguishes June 28 electronic publication from the August 17 journal issue."
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"sourceId": "editorial-crispr-applications",
"supports": "The 2012 guide-RNA result was followed by cellular editing and research applications; future medical possibilities are not scored as established consequences."
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"rationale": "A police officer's landing report became a bounded investigated case; its records do not verify a non-human vehicle.",
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{
"sourceId": "socorro-fbi-memoranda",
"supports": "Incident date and location Zamora as reporting police officer Byrnes observed indentations and burned vegetation after the reported departure"
},
{
"sourceId": "socorro-usaf-summary-cufos",
"supports": "Attributed oval-object and figure report Air Force investigation Reported negative soil, radiation and propellant analyses No additional object witness located in that investigation"
},
{
"sourceId": "quintanilla-investigation-ufos",
"supports": "Socorro among Blue Book’s unidentified cases Quintanilla’s stated investigation and unresolved conclusion Negative findings for extraterrestrial origin"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"westall-1966": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "School witness accounts preserved a local encounter history; witness agreement does not replace calibrated physical evidence.",
"limitations": "The inspected newspaper items are cropped reproductions, not complete issues or the original interview files. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "westall-journal-crops",
"supports": "Contemporary reporting of an April 6 Westall report Newspaper’s statement that school access to witnesses was restricted Contemporary student drawing and reference to a science teacher’s account"
},
{
"sourceId": "westall-state-library",
"supports": "April 6, 1966 incident chronology and geography Andrew Greenwood’s teaching role and reported description Contemporary balloon suggestion Distinction between early sources and later accounts"
},
{
"sourceId": "westall-kingston-ryan",
"supports": "Later oral-history layer Author’s report that some original film, photographs and investigation notes could not be located"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"vallee-magonia-1969": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A published comparison broadened UFO interpretation toward folklore, an intellectual contribution rather than proof of a shared supernatural source.",
"limitations": "Resemblance between narratives does not demonstrate a shared physical event, intelligence or mechanism. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "magonia-bibliography-cinii",
"supports": "Jacques Vallée authorship Original 1969 Regnery publication Chicago as original publication location"
},
{
"sourceId": "magonia-selected-text",
"supports": "Comparison of folklore and encounter narratives Cultural interpretation Author’s own caution about speculative explanations"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"hynek-cufos-1973": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A research center organized civilian case investigation, without converting its catalog into authenticated extraordinary events.",
"limitations": "An organizational history supports chronology and stated aims; it is not an independent evaluation of research results. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "cufos-history",
"supports": "1973 founding Hynek’s astronomical-consultant role and scientific directorship 1972 book and classification context Research and archival aims"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"jal-1628-1986": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Flight reports and agency response made an aviation anomaly publicly inspectable, with unresolved sensor and interpretation limits.",
"limitations": "The initial interviews were joint crew accounts, not three independently collected confirmations of a large craft. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "jal-faa-interview-notes",
"supports": "November 17, 1986 reported incident Crew names and roles Joint interview provenance Lights reported; Derry notes no visible craft"
},
{
"sourceId": "jal-faa-public-affairs",
"supports": "FAA split-return explanation Other airliner’s lack of additional visual sighting FAA safety remit and explicit limit of visual investigation Kenjyu spelling and crew roles"
},
{
"sourceId": "jal-faa-split-return",
"supports": "Distinction between a controller’s real-time interpretation and later radar review FAA’s attributed explanation of the paired targets"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"belgian-wave-1989": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A national reporting episode prompted an air-force response; failed identification does not establish a specific extraordinary cause.",
"limitations": "Radar locks alone do not identify a craft or validate inferred extraordinary acceleration; original radar data were not independently reanalysed here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "belgian-baf-summary-transcription",
"supports": "Air Force response March 30–31, 1990 interception No visual contact by either F-16 pilot De Brouwer’s role"
},
{
"sourceId": "belgian-uk-archive-guide",
"supports": "Archival corroboration of Belgian Air Force statement F-16 radar lock-ons UK records preserve Belgian response"
},
{
"sourceId": "belgian-meessen-1991",
"supports": "November 29, 1989 cluster near Eupen Meessen’s role and research access No reliable matching ground-radar traces in the material he examined"
},
{
"sourceId": "petit-rechain-reuters-2011",
"supports": "Reported staged-model admission Photo’s 1990 date and association with the wave Separation of this image from other reports"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"ariel-1994": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Children's reported experience entered interview and media records; the claim's authenticity and cause remain different questions.",
"limitations": "Hind and Callimanopulos participated in the investigations and favored an extraordinary interpretation; their publications are not independent confirmations of the reported beings. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "ariel-hind-afrinews-11",
"supports": "September 16, 1994 date and Ruwa location Children’s attributed reports Differences in drawings Hind’s and later interviewers’ roles"
},
{
"sourceId": "ariel-callimanopulos-1995",
"supports": "Mack and Callimanopulos’s interview participation Twelve children interviewed over two days Published 1995 interpretive account"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"phoenix-lights-1997": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Separating moving formations from a later flare display makes a prominent public episode useful for learning occurrence-level distinctions.",
"limitations": "Neither the later flare explanation nor the aircraft account establishes the identity of every reported light. No calibrated raw imagery, complete flight logs or independent reconstruction was inspected here. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-nuforc-1997",
"supports": "Records the moving-light reports and its own preliminary scope."
},
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-ortega-1997",
"supports": "Reports Stanley’s telescope account and differing witness descriptions."
},
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-ortega-1998",
"supports": "Separates the earlier formation from the later military flare display."
},
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-mcgaha-nickell-2015",
"supports": "Gives a later aircraft-and-flare assessment, including an attributed pilot interview."
},
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-film-history",
"supports": "Dates the original premiere and identifies a later edition; cultural history only."
},
{
"sourceId": "phoenix-survey-2026",
"supports": "Abstract records a later questionnaire study; no technical case resolution."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"hiroshima-nagasaki-1945": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Atomic attacks destroyed cities and inflicted immediate and lasting human harm, establishing the lived consequences of the nuclear capability demonstrated at Trinity.",
"limitations": "This compact entry does not adjudicate every competing explanation of Japan’s surrender or the historical debate over alternatives. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "doe-chronology",
"supports": "Dates the two bombings and identifies the weapons used."
},
{
"sourceId": "nps-atomic-bomb-survivors",
"supports": "Survivor experience and social consequences."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pakal-palenque-tomb": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Pakal's tomb combines dynastic inscriptions and religious imagery in a documented Maya setting; it is not evidence of an astronaut.",
"limitations": "Details of the symbolism are interpreted through comparative scholarship. A resemblance to modern machinery does not establish machinery. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-palenque-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 2–3: city, water management, Pakal’s crypt and Ruz’s 1952 discovery; p. 5: living Ch’ol and Tzeltal communities"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-pakal-claim-20261012",
"supports": "Opening publication-history paragraph and “The Palenque Sarcophagus Lid: Maya Ruler or Ancient Astronaut?”"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"chichen-itza-regional-center": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A regional center's monumental and cultural record reveals exchange and urban organization in Yucatan without resolving every migration narrative.",
"limitations": "The “Maya-Toltec” heritage label does not settle who moved, conquered or influenced whom. Architectural alignments need individual assessment. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-chichen-20261012",
"supports": "Description, Outstanding Universal Value and criteria (ii)–(iii)"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"dresden-codex-astronomy": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A surviving manuscript preserves precise astronomical calculation and ritual use, with living Maya practice and older knowledge distinct from the copy's date.",
"limitations": "Only a few codices survive. Their tables cannot stand for every Maya community or period. Long Count creation dates are mythic anchors. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-dresden-20261012",
"supports": "Collection description: date, Yucatán provenance and contents; digital facsimile link"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-dresden-tables-20261012",
"supports": "Introduction; Venus tables pp. 24, 46–50; eclipse tables pp. 51–58"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-calendar-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 1, 4, 7–10: calendar cycles, names, Long Count and living practice"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-number-notation-20261012",
"supports": "Dot/bar numerical notation and a zero sign; not an invention date."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"popol-vuh-surviving-manuscript": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A K'iche' sacred-history manuscript preserves Indigenous language and a colonial transmission chain; religious truth is not established by preservation.",
"limitations": "The earlier sixteenth-century text is not the same as the surviving copy. Translation and colonial conditions shape what we can recover; stories are not dated physical events. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-popol-vuh-20261012",
"supports": "“What is the Popol Vuh?” and manuscript/digital-access sections"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pakal-tomb-discovery-1952": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Excavation recovered a specific royal tomb; its modern access consequence is different from Pakal's ancient life and beliefs.",
"limitations": "The blocked anniversary page was not used to assert a particular day. Excavating the tomb did not instantly settle every reading of its inscriptions. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-palenque-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 2–3: city, water management, Pakal’s crypt and Ruz’s 1952 discovery; p. 5: living Ch’ol and Tzeltal communities"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-nova-maya-20261012",
"supports": "Knorosov, Proskouriakoff, Robertson/Schele/Mathews and Stuart sections; credits"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"maya-writing-decipherment": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Decipherment recovered historical names and dynastic records through multiple researchers' work, changing what surviving inscriptions could establish.",
"limitations": "This range selects milestones; earlier work and continuing Maya-language scholarship also matter. Not every glyph or ancient passage is resolved. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-decipherment-20261012",
"supports": "Phonetic Approach; Historical Approach; Fruits of a New Generation; Modern Era"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-nova-maya-20261012",
"supports": "Knorosov, Proskouriakoff, Robertson/Schele/Mathews and Stuart sections; credits"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-anthology-20261012",
"supports": "Publisher description, editors, publication date and contents overview"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"pakal-astronaut-interpretation": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Popular publishing reframed an ancient object as an astronaut story, a media-history effect rather than an archaeological finding.",
"limitations": "The original book was not read here. Visual resemblance does not establish a spacecraft, and the media story is not the archaeological discovery. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-pakal-claim-20261012",
"supports": "Opening publication-history paragraph and “The Palenque Sarcophagus Lid: Maya Ruler or Ancient Astronaut?”"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"maya-calendar-2012": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "A real calendar transition and an unsupported apocalypse narrative make a useful contrast between cultural practice and modern interpretation.",
"limitations": "Maya communities hold diverse views. The portal’s linked interviews were not watched, and no single view is attributed to all Maya people. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-calendar-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 1, 4, 7–10: calendar cycles, names, Long Count and living practice"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-living-maya-20261012",
"supports": "Overview and resource contents, including Maya Opinions on 2012"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-2012-report-20261012",
"supports": "Opening paragraphs: cycle completion and modern apocalypse claims"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"maya-guatemala-lidar-2018": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Lidar expanded measured evidence for Maya landscapes; remote sensing was not the creation of those cities.",
"limitations": "The abstract was inspected, not every mapped feature or excavation. Mapped terrain alone does not give an exact population or date every structure. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-lidar-20261012",
"supports": "Abstract and author/date metadata; DOI 10.1126/science.aau0137"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"teotihuacan-urban-engineering": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A large planned city reveals collective housing, infrastructure and ritual organization beyond individual rulers or monuments.",
"limitations": "The selected building period is approximate. The city was not built by the later Aztec/Mexica empire; its ethnic and political composition remains debated. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-teotihuacan-20261012",
"supports": "Overview, chronology, monumental architecture and apartment compounds"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-serpent-teotihuacan-20261012",
"supports": "Object date 100–500 CE; imagery, ritual space and later Mexica architecture paragraphs"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"feathered-serpent-regional-traditions": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Dated objects show regionally distinct Feathered Serpent traditions, making comparison possible without invented common origins.",
"limitations": "These names do not describe one unchanged universal story. Similar imagery does not prove alien visits or a shared global origin. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-serpent-mexica-20261012",
"supports": "Object date 1325–1521 CE and Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl/wind-jewel interpretation"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-serpent-teotihuacan-20261012",
"supports": "Object date 100–500 CE; imagery, ritual space and later Mexica architecture paragraphs"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-maya-calendar-20261012",
"supports": "PDF pp. 1, 4, 7–10: calendar cycles, names, Long Count and living practice"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"tenochtitlan-water-city": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Water infrastructure sustained urban life alongside tribute and imperial power, linking technical achievement to political costs.",
"limitations": "This is a major building phase, not a precise founding date. Urban achievements do not erase coercion, war or the different experiences of subject peoples. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-tenochtitlan-20261012",
"supports": "Construction from the 1470s; reclaimed land, canals, causeways, aqueducts and 1521 conquest"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"florentine-codex-1577": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A bilingual collaborative manuscript preserves Nahua knowledge and conquest accounts under colonial constraints, with differences between languages retained.",
"limitations": "This colonial manuscript is not an untouched preconquest record. Book descriptions were checked, not a complete reading of its astronomical or ritual passages. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-florentine-20261012",
"supports": "Bilingual and Bicultural Manuscript; named Nahua collaborators; Book 12 and differing Spanish/Nahuatl narratives"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-florentine-contents-20261012",
"supports": "Book titles and descriptions: gods, ceremonies, astrology, Sun/Moon/stars and binding the years"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"trindade-photographs-1958": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "A photo-and-response record permits scrutiny of a disputed case; official interest does not authenticate the images.",
"limitations": "This compilation is not the original negatives. Its skeptical U.S. assessment does not itself prove a hoax; reported Navy endorsement does not establish an extraordinary object. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-trindade-20261012",
"supports": "Reported date and a preserved skeptical U.S. assessment; not an independent authentication of the photographs."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"varginha-1996-reports": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Reports, inquiry and film made a national case publicly discussable; testimony, official conclusions and later editing have distinct evidence limits.",
"limitations": "The complete inquiry and film were not reviewed. No publicly authenticated body, recovery chain or laboratory evidence was established by the sources inspected here. Official denial does not independently answer every witness claim. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-varginha-catalogue-20261012",
"supports": "Archival history, scope/content, creation span February 13–June 19, 1997, and 1996 book bibliographic note"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-varginha-response-20261012",
"supports": "Article paragraphs on three young witnesses, military response, local-person hypothesis and inquiry conclusion"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-varginha-film-20261012",
"supports": "Distributor synopsis, director, year and runtime"
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
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},
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"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Forest-management evidence challenges a simple untouched-Amazon narrative; a study's publication did not originate Indigenous land knowledge.",
"limitations": "These sites do not represent every Amazonian landscape. Ancient forest management is not equivalent to the scale or effects of modern deforestation. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-acre-20261012",
"supports": "Abstract, Implications and methods overview; DOI 10.1073/pnas.1614359114"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Mapping extended evidence for pre-Hispanic tropical urban systems in Bolivia, not Brazil; survey boundaries limit generalization.",
"limitations": "The dates refer to a culture span, not one building campaign. Survey coverage and later fieldwork limit how much can be generalized. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-bolivia-20261012",
"supports": "Abstract and main: Casarabe chronology, Llanos de Mojos, platforms, causeways and water management; DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04780-4"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"brazil-amazon-lidar-2023": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Observed earthworks motivate more fieldwork; the model's larger predicted totals are not discovered sites.",
"limitations": "The model’s 10,272–23,648 undiscovered-site estimate is a prediction, not a count of excavated cities. Dates, function and community histories require field research. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-amazon-lidar-20261012",
"supports": "Abstract and bibliographic record obtained from Europe PMC REST, EXT_ID 37797008; DOI 10.1126/science.ade2541"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-amazon-explain-20261012",
"supports": "Study explanation: 24 new sites, Brazilian states, 0.08% sampled, model and Indigenous knowledge"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 3,
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"limitations": "The range is a chronology estimate, not construction-day evidence. The precise contribution of Imhotep and his collaborators cannot all be recovered. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-djoser-20261012",
"supports": "Historical description: Third Dynasty reign ca. 2667–2648 BCE, mastabas, six steps and Sed Festival"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 5,
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"limitations": "Exact construction methods remain debated. Precision does not by itself identify a particular surveying method; a missing detail is not evidence of non-human builders. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-giza-20261012",
"supports": "Description: Khufu ca. 2589–2566 BCE, limestone, casing transport, chambers and Grand Gallery"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-pyramid-nova-20261012",
"supports": "Selected transcript sections: workers’ settlement, orientation hypotheses, Merer’s deliveries and void interpretations"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Surviving royal afterlife texts attest religious practice and later reuse; written belief does not establish the claimed supernatural mechanism.",
"limitations": "The first surviving inscription does not date when every belief or formula began. These are religious texts, not measured records of an afterlife. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-pyramid-texts-20261012",
"supports": "Corpus description: earliest surviving example at Unas; later ritual and funerary reuse"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-unas-20261012",
"supports": "Fifth Dynasty dating and first inscribed pyramid"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 5,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Decipherment enlarged access to ancient Egyptian written history through cumulative language work and testing, not a single unexplained insight.",
"limitations": "The stone’s 1799 recovery and the ancient decree are different dates. Decipherment had predecessors and collaborators and continued beyond one announcement. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-champollion-20261012",
"supports": "Rosetta discovery 1799; language training; publications in 1822/1824; later testing"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-champollion-letter-20261012",
"supports": "Author, title, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1822, and digitized-copy access link"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-egypt-writing-20261012",
"supports": "Hieroglyph sign types and Rosetta Stone/Champollion explanation"
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 4,
"learningValue": 4,
"rationale": "Recovered work records expose logistical tasks and workers behind pyramid construction, a bounded modern discovery rather than the ancient construction date.",
"limitations": "The log covers part of the supply system. It is not a complete manual for raising every block or building every pyramid. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-merer-20261012",
"supports": "Publisher note: March 13, 2013 discovery, collaboration with Mark Lehner, book metadata and Tallet’s role"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-pyramid-nova-20261012",
"supports": "Selected transcript sections: workers’ settlement, orientation hypotheses, Merer’s deliveries and void interpretations"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
"scanpyramids-big-void-2017": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "Particle measurements detected an internal void with limited interpretation; they did not explain its purpose or every construction method.",
"limitations": "The inspected abstract does not determine exact shape, contents or purpose. A void is not automatically a treasure chamber, tomb or hidden technology. Scores describe the bounded contribution or response in this entry, not every later development in its field.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "regional-scanpyramids-20261012",
"supports": "Abstract, submission history and related DOI 10.1038/nature24647"
},
{
"sourceId": "regional-pyramid-nova-20261012",
"supports": "Selected transcript sections: workers’ settlement, orientation hypotheses, Merer’s deliveries and void interpretations"
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "Retained entry, stated evidence boundaries and recorded supporting passages reviewed for editorial purpose; existing external-source inspection dates and scope remain unchanged unless a separate new synthesis is identified."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The archival passage dates ONI's establishment within the Bureau of Navigation, but does not demonstrate the consequences of its intelligence work.",
"limitations": "A founding order is not evidence of subsequent reach, effectiveness, or a UAP mission.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-oni-nara-20261012",
"supports": "ONI established by General Order 292 on March 23, 1882; later organizational transfers."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The passage establishes that naval research coordination and invention offices were combined as ORI; effects on research output are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "The consolidation cannot inherit ONR's later achievements or be scored from its date alone.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-onr-nara-20261012",
"supports": "ORI created May 15, 1945; ONR replaced it in 1946. NRL administrative relationship."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The sources distinguish ONR's statutory establishment from ORI and from laboratory operation; the research sponsor's wider outcomes remain outside the inspected claim scope.",
"limitations": "Assessing enduring research impact needs a synthesis of supported results, not only Public Law 588.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-onr-history-20261012",
"supports": "August 1, 1946 establishment under Public Law 588."
},
{
"sourceId": "navy-onr-nara-20261012",
"supports": "ORI created May 15, 1945; ONR replaced it in 1946. NRL administrative relationship."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-onr-guide-20261012",
"supports": "ONT created 1980, OAT 1990, joined ONR in 1993; guide is not comprehensive."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The centennial passage establishes a commissioned laboratory with radio and sound divisions, but this record does not assess what those programs achieved.",
"limitations": "Later sensor or space achievements need their own inspected consequence evidence; laboratory prestige does not supply a score.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nrl-centennial-20261012",
"supports": "1923 commissioning, circa-1926 shortened name, 1946 ONR administrative transfer, early radio and sound work."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nrl-centennial-20261012",
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}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"rationale": "The Communication Security Group name marks a documented stage in an existing section's lineage; operational effects of the change are not supplied.",
"limitations": "A designation should not be treated as the 1950 NSG creation or the 1968 command reorganization.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nsg-lineage-20261012",
"supports": "1935 Communication Security Group, 1950 NSG designation, 1968 command designation, 2005 disestablishment."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
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"references": [
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"sourceId": "navy-nsg-lineage-20261012",
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}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
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},
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{
"sourceId": "navy-nsg-lineage-20261012",
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}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
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},
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{
"sourceId": "navy-nsg-lineage-20261012",
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}
],
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},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "The charter was not inspected, and the cited secondary date must not be turned into exact inception or declassification evidence.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nuro-scholarly-20261012",
"supports": "Keith C. Clarke dates NURO to 1969, expressly citing Sontag and Drew, Blind Man’s Bluff (1998), pp. 82–83."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"limitations": "The directive names a Program; it neither establishes an Office charter nor demonstrates how effectively oversight operated.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nuro-nsdm40-20261012",
"supports": "Names National Underwater Reconnaissance Program among Defense programs subject to 40 Committee policy review and mission approval."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"status": "unassessed",
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nuro-inman-20261012",
"supports": "Inman identifies himself as NURO director; recalls technology acquisition separately from Navy/NSA mission execution. Public transcript, not declassification order."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"limitations": "A journal's publication and a government endorsement or declassification are different propositions.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nuro-csi-review-20261012",
"supports": "September 2023 publication includes a book-review reference to NURO; disclaimer rejects official endorsement of authors’ facts or interpretations."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The corrected notice identifies the combination of scientific, technical, and reconnaissance support centers as NISC; results of the combination are not assessed.",
"limitations": "The erratum dates an organizational change, not evidence of better intelligence or a new mission.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nisc-notice-20261012",
"supports": "Corrected contemporary notice lists July 1, 1972 combination/redesignation of scientific/technical and reconnaissance support centers as NISC."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The sources date a maritime intelligence integration organization and distinguish it from its host facility; achieved integration effects are not supplied.",
"limitations": "The directive itself was not inspected, and the month-level primary account does not establish a precise operational day.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nmio-rename-20261012",
"supports": "January 2009 establishment through ICD 902; January 23, 2012 announced rename from NMIC to NMIO; facility keeps NMIC name."
},
{
"sourceId": "navy-nmic-thesis-20261012",
"supports": "January 14, 2009 establishment reported by Navy lieutenant; 2009 ONI centers. Author expressly disclaims official-policy status."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The announcement changes the organization's acronym while preserving the facility's NMIC name; no resulting operational change is established.",
"limitations": "Renaming the organization is not establishing the Suitland facility or proving a new intelligence mission.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nmio-rename-20261012",
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}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The Newport history supports the Torpedo Station's founding, but does not evaluate effects of its ordnance work in this bounded entry.",
"limitations": "A facility's founding cannot inherit all later undersea-weapon developments without supported links.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "navy-nuwc-150-20261012",
"supports": "1869 Torpedo Station and 1951, 1966, 1970 and 1992 successor names."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"limitations": "An authorized script is not an actual public disclosure or a finding that the agency was fully declassified.",
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"supports": "Authorizes OASD public affairs, only in response to direct inquiry, to acknowledge an NRO administered by a senior Air Force civilian. Does not prove that the authorized reply was issued. Stamp approves release 2003-09-30, distinct from original cable date."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"limitations": "The closure must not be mistaken for A-12 deactivation, nor does transfer establish that the assets stopped operating.",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"rationale": "Prepared remarks establish PARCAE's first-launch year and fleet-ELINT purpose, but results or consequences of the first mission are not assessed.",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The biographies date SAMSO's Space Division redesignation and describe acquisition responsibilities, without assessing consequences of the change.",
"limitations": "An existing organization's new name is distinct from the invention of U.S. space systems; exact-day precision is unsupported.",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "AFSPC established a dedicated operational command, but this record does not isolate consequences of creating it from those of its underlying programs.",
"limitations": "An operational command is distinct from acquisition organizations; later warning-system uses cannot all be credited to its founding.",
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"sourceId": "space-ussf-2019-20261012",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"rationale": "The official history documents transfer of early-warning radar responsibilities to AFSPC, without evaluating changed warning performance.",
"limitations": "Moving an operator's responsibility is not evidence of new radar technology, broader coverage, or a UAP mission.",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"rationale": "Activation remarks identify a unified military-space command and support mission, but delivered results of this consolidation are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "A combatant command is not a service or an acquisition agency; an inaugural speech is not evidence of operational effectiveness.",
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"supports": "Contemporary activation remarks establish 23 September 1985 as the original command activation date and explain the unified military-space support mission."
}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"rationale": "The Space Systems Division designation records a stage in the acquisition lineage, without evidence of changed outputs.",
"limitations": "The 1989 name should not be conflated with the separately constituted 1961 division or assigned an unsupported exact day.",
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"rationale": "Satellite-launch operation transferred to AFSPC, but consequences for launch reliability, access, or defense activity are not evaluated.",
"limitations": "Operational responsibility is separate from acquisition; the transfer date does not date the first satellite launch.",
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}
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"supports": "Deputy Secretary Don Atwood announces existence, historical mission and reporting arrangements; expressly says no other NRO information has been declassified."
}
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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}
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}
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"limitations": "An agency mandate to develop and field systems is not proof of those systems' outcomes, nor a military service's creation.",
"references": [
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"supports": "Agency established 12 March 2019; develops and fields proliferated space capabilities. Acquisition agency, not a military service or combatant command."
}
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The caption establishes reestablishment of USSPACECOM after its closure, without evidence of the reestablishment's operational consequences.",
"limitations": "The command did not exist continuously from 1985, and the inspected caption is retrospective rather than the inaccessible original fact sheet.",
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"sourceId": "space-spacecom-2019-20261012",
"supports": "Official caption distinguishes September 1985 formation, 2002 disestablishment and 29 August 2019 reestablishment."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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{
"sourceId": "space-ussf-2019-20261012",
"supports": "USSF was established on 20 December 2019 within the Department of the Air Force to organize, train and equip space forces. AFSPC was established on 1 September 1982; its redesignation was an initial step in standing up the new service."
}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"rationale": "Delta 2's activation and space-domain-awareness role are identified; changes in orbital knowledge or sensor performance are not assessed.",
"limitations": "A coordination unit's mission does not date the invention of Eglin radar or the Kwajalein Space Fence.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "space-delta2-2021-20261012",
"supports": "Delta 2 activated on 24 July 2020. Radar/optical sensors and missile-warning contributors provide orbital-awareness data. Identifies Eglin AN/FPS-85 and the Kwajalein Space Fence."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The SMC-to-SSC transition establishes field-command status and responsibilities, but resulting acquisition or launch effects are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "The command continued an existing lineage; title and remit should not inherit all prior space-system achievements.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "space-ssc-2021-20261012",
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}
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The transfer placed SDA within the Space Force while retaining its acquisition approach; effects of the transfer are not established.",
"limitations": "Organizational placement is distinct from SDA's creation or a demonstrated change in system capability.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "space-sda-transfer-20261012",
"supports": "SDA transferred to the USSF on 1 October 2022, retaining its acquisition approach."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"limitations": "Prepared-for-delivery text reproduced later is not proof of the internal approval date or that every program detail became public.",
"references": [
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The DARPA name replaced ARPA for an existing institution; consequences specific to the 1972 rename are not demonstrated.",
"limitations": "Agency research achievements do not automatically belong to a naming milestone, and this was not a new founding.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "space-darpa-names-20261012",
"supports": "ARPA was renamed DARPA in 1972, reverted to ARPA in 1993 and became DARPA again in 1996. These are names of the same institution."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "Returning to the ARPA name is documented as an institutional rename; effects on research funding or results are not assessed.",
"limitations": "The 1993 designation is not a separate agency or evidence that earlier DARPA programs ceased.",
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{
"sourceId": "space-darpa-names-20261012",
"supports": "ARPA was renamed DARPA in 1972, reverted to ARPA in 1993 and became DARPA again in 1996. These are names of the same institution."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The later return to the DARPA name is supported, without demonstrated consequences of the 1996 naming decision.",
"limitations": "This continuation must not inherit the impact of the agency's formation or every associated invention.",
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"sourceId": "space-darpa-names-20261012",
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}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The presidential order dates COI's creation, but this bounded record does not assess the office's intelligence contributions.",
"limitations": "COI's establishment is distinct from OSS redesignation, CIA formation, and evidence of a UAP role.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"supports": "Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "EO 9621 ordered abolition and division of OSS functions with a later effective date; downstream intelligence effects are not evaluated.",
"limitations": "An order's signature is not its effective implementation, and abolition did not mean every OSS function disappeared.",
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"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
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}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"ssu-established": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "Residual OSS functions moved to the War Department while research and analysis went to State; results of that allocation are not assessed.",
"limitations": "The transfer and SSU lineage cannot inherit the entirety of wartime OSS or later CIA activity.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": "CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
},
{
"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"supports": "Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The directive created CIG and the National Intelligence Authority, but consequences of their actual coordination work are not supplied.",
"limitations": "Authorization precedes institutional outcomes and is not CIA's later statutory establishment.",
"references": [
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"sourceId": "int-coi-cig-orders-20261012",
"supports": "Original directives distinguish COI creation, OSS redesignation, OSS abolition effective October 1, 1945, and CIG authorization."
},
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": "CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The General Order formally abolished SSU after phased transfers; effects beyond that administrative closure are not demonstrated.",
"limitations": "A formal abolition date is distinct from earlier functional transfers or termination of all predecessor activities.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg263-20261012",
"supports": "CIA effective September 18, 1947; SSU residual functions, dissolution, and October 19, 1946 abolition."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"nsc-eop-transfer": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The NSC's placement within the Executive Office of the President is supported, but effects of that placement on policy decisions are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "The transfer is not NSC's original formation and cannot inherit consequences of every later national-security decision.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg273-20261012",
"supports": "NSC statutory establishment July 26, 1947; transfer to EOP effective August 20, 1949."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"afsa-authorized": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "Defense authorization for AFSA is documented, but consequences of the authorization are not distinguished from subsequent establishment and operations.",
"limitations": "Permission to create an agency is not a measure of cryptologic success or the formal JCS establishment date.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"supports": "AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"learningValue": null,
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"supports": "AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
}
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"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "NSA's 1972 establishment summary and a later plan are distinct from the enabling directive.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg457-20261012",
"supports": "AFSA authorization May 20 and formal establishment May 24, 1949; CSS December 23, 1971 directive. NSA supersession wording differs from NSA history."
}
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"limitations": "This score concerns the supported integration arrangement, not measured cryptologic performance; no exact operational start day is established.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-css-about-20261012",
"supports": "Agency page dates establishment to 1972 without a day and describes military cryptologic integration and dual leadership."
},
{
"sourceId": "int-css-plan-1972-20261012",
"supports": "CSS plan submitted February 1 and JCS concurrence received March 15; Secretary approval was still anticipated on March 16."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The DIA directive's effective date began phased consolidation, but the record does not evaluate the resulting intelligence work.",
"limitations": "All consolidation was not complete that day, and an effective directive is not evidence of later analytical quality.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-dia-background-20261012",
"supports": "Secretary directive August 1, 1961 made DIA effective October 1, 1961."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "Statutory authorization differs from ODNI's later operational start and does not prove improvements in intelligence performance.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-odni-about-roster-20261012",
"supports": "IRTPA December 17, 2004; first DNI sworn April 21, 2005; ODNI operational April 22. Lists 18 components."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
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"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "An opening time does not demonstrate the reform's success or inherit all activities of the intelligence community's components.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-odni-about-roster-20261012",
"supports": "IRTPA December 17, 2004; first DNI sworn April 21, 2005; ODNI operational April 22. Lists 18 components."
}
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-cia-organizational-regulations-20261012",
"supports": "NPIC cites NSCID 8 of January 18, 1961. Dated regulations identify technical offices and their responsibilities."
}
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"learningValue": null,
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg456-20261012",
"supports": "Directive January 1, 1972 created DMA; consolidation became operational July 1, 1972."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "A consolidation date does not prove improved maps, a new geospatial technique, or a UAP role.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nara-rg456-20261012",
"supports": "Directive January 1, 1972 created DMA; consolidation became operational July 1, 1972."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"limitations": "The score concerns consolidation; no claim is made about increased accuracy, strategic success, or that every underlying capability began in 1996.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nga-about-20261012",
"supports": "NIMA began October 1, 1996, absorbing DMA, NPIC, CIO and DDPO plus imagery elements of other agencies."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "A legal name change is not a second founding and cannot inherit the impact of the earlier institutional consolidation.",
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{
"sourceId": "int-nga-redesignation-law-20261012",
"supports": "NIMA redesignated NGA by law approved November 24, 2003."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The Army's ITAC establishment is supported as part of an organizational sequence; effects on threat analysis are not demonstrated.",
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"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-inscom-history-20261012",
"supports": "INSCOM formed January 1, 1977; Army Intelligence Agency HQ integrated October 1; ITAC created January 1, 1978."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The history dates provisional combination of FSTC and ITAC under NGIC; results of the consolidation are not assessed.",
"limitations": "The organizing order was not inspected, and provisional activation is distinct from the following day's operational status.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-ngic-history-20261012",
"supports": "FSTC and ITAC combined into provisional NGIC July 8, 1994; fully operational July 9."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"learningValue": null,
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"limitations": "The adjacent dates should not receive duplicate credit for the same institutional consolidation or imply proven intelligence effectiveness.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-ngic-history-20261012",
"supports": "FSTC and ITAC combined into provisional NGIC July 8, 1994; fully operational July 9."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"msic-dia-transfer": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The briefing graphic places MSIC within DIA in 1992; effects of the placement on missile analysis are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "The exact transfer instrument and day were not inspected, and organizational lineage does not establish a UAP mission.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-msic-briefing-20261012",
"supports": "MSIC lineage traces Army Ballistic Missile Agency in 1956, Army Intelligence Agency in 1985, and DIA in 1992."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The memorandum documents elevation of scientific intelligence to a CIA office, without evaluating the office's scientific assessments or policy effects.",
"limitations": "The unresolved December 1948 versus January 1949 administrative distinction should not be hidden by an exact date or an inferred impact.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-osi-responsibilities-20261012",
"supports": "Memo describes scientific division elevated to Office of Scientific Intelligence in January 1949."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"cia-ddr-authorized": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The signed notice authorized a research directorate effective three days later; consequences of authorization itself are not demonstrated.",
"limitations": "A signed notice and operational reorganization are different events, and authorization is not evidence of technical results.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-ddr-establishment-20261012",
"supports": "Notice signed February 16, 1962 establishes Deputy Director for Research effective February 19."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The notice's effective change appointed Scoville and transferred technical activities; resulting research or collection effects are not reviewed.",
"limitations": "The directorate's start does not by itself establish new technology, scientific success, or a UAP role.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-ddr-establishment-20261012",
"supports": "Notice signed February 16, 1962 establishes Deputy Director for Research effective February 19."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The CIA history dates creation of the Wheelon-led DS&T directorate, but this record does not evaluate its actual programs or outcomes.",
"limitations": "The directorate's later reputation cannot supply impact for a source scope limited to its establishment.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-dst-origins-20261012",
"supports": "CIA dates DS&T creation August 6, 1963 under Albert Wheelon."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
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"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 3,
"rationale": "NSC 5412/2 assigned covert-operation responsibility and a senior interdepartmental review mechanism, a meaningful bounded change in documented oversight rules.",
"limitations": "Policy requirements do not prove effective oversight, democratic accountability, or that every earlier Special Group form began on this date.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nsc5412-2-20261012",
"supports": "President approved December 28, 1955; CIA covert-operation responsibility and senior interdepartmental review mechanism."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "NSAM 303 renamed the Special Group while explicitly retaining composition and responsibilities; no distinct consequences of the rename are demonstrated.",
"limitations": "Continuity should not be presented as a new oversight body or inherit the policy framework's impact.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-nsam303-20261012",
"supports": "Special Group 5412 renamed 303 Committee June 2, 1964 without changing composition or responsibilities."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"project-sign-formal-start": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "AARO supplies a retrospective formal Project Sign start, but this record does not evaluate the project's investigations or public consequences.",
"limitations": "The original directive was not inspected and the chronology's anachronistic ATIC terminology must not be adopted.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": "Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"project-grudge-first-phase": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The sources date Grudge's succession to Sign, without establishing consequences of this transition in investigations or public understanding.",
"limitations": "The unresolved closure-date discrepancy is retained, and a program transition is not evidence concerning the origin of reported objects.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-bluebook-closure-history-20261012",
"supports": "Sign ordered December 30, 1947; Blue Book ordered March 1952; termination announced December 17, 1969, operations ended January 1970."
},
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": "Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "AARO dates Grudge's resumption to late October, but effects of resuming the program are not supplied.",
"limitations": "The retrospective month does not support an exact day, a newly proven phenomenon, or a new institution.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": "Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
}
],
"inspectionBasis": "Existing event metadata and source-support statements reviewed under inherited bounded inspection limits; external sources were not newly retrieved.",
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "NARA dates the end of Blue Book operations separately from the termination announcement; effects specific to the operational end are not evaluated.",
"limitations": "The date must not inherit the entire investigation's significance or prove that all later government inquiry stopped.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-bluebook-closure-history-20261012",
"supports": "Sign ordered December 30, 1947; Blue Book ordered March 1952; termination announced December 17, 1969, operations ended January 1970."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The original procurement instrument establishes AAWSAP's BAASS award and effective date, without demonstrated outcomes of the contracted work.",
"limitations": "A contract is not a separately chartered AATIP, recovered-material evidence, or proof that research conclusions were valid.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-aawsap-contract-20261012",
"supports": "Award/effective date September 22, 2008 and BAASS contractor; contractual research periods are not agency formation dates."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "AARO's retrospective states AAWSAP ended after deliverables were completed, but the effects or quality of the deliverables are not assessed.",
"limitations": "The original closing instrument and an exact termination date were not reviewed; completion does not establish extraordinary claims.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-history-2024-20261012",
"supports": "Program sequence and AARO assessment of AAWSAP/AATIP. Its 2009 shorthand differs from original 2008 contracting records."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"historicalImpact": 3,
"learningValue": 2,
"rationale": "The documented direction expanded AOIMSG to an all-domain remit and specified AARO oversight, a bounded change in the government's inquiry structure.",
"limitations": "An expanded remit is not proof of discoveries, successful investigations, recovered materials, or the origin of observed objects.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-aaro-announcement-20261012",
"supports": "July 15 direction expanded and renamed AOIMSG; July 20 public announcement. AAROEXEC under USD(I&S) supplied oversight."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"kona-blue-psap-approval": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "DHS approved preliminary security for developing a KONA BLUE proposal, but no operational program or achieved consequence is established.",
"limitations": "Prospective SAP approval is not approval of an operational SAP or possession of the proposed extraordinary material.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-kona-records-20261012",
"supports": "Formal prospective SAP approval July 11, 2011; DHS confirms termination February 10, 2012. Operational SAP proposal was not approved."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"kona-blue-termination": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The DHS letter confirms termination of the prospective KONA BLUE arrangement; effects beyond closing the proposal are not evaluated.",
"limitations": "An earlier direction to terminate is a separate administrative step, and closure is not evidence that recovered materials ever existed.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-kona-records-20261012",
"supports": "Formal prospective SAP approval July 11, 2011; DHS confirms termination February 10, 2012. Operational SAP proposal was not approved."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
"kona-blue-release-approval": {
"status": "unassessed",
"historicalImpact": null,
"learningValue": null,
"rationale": "The DHS letter authorizes release of KONA BLUE records, without establishing first public posting, access, or public impact.",
"limitations": "Earlier classification stamps and the release-letter date differ; release approval is not a finding that the proposal's allegations were true.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "int-kona-records-20261012",
"supports": "Formal prospective SAP approval July 11, 2011; DHS confirms termination February 10, 2012. Operational SAP proposal was not approved."
}
],
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"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed."
},
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"status": "unassessed",
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"sourceId": "navy-navsea-50-mirror-20261012",
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"sourceId": "navy-keyport-lineage-20261012",
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"sourceId": "essential-ansto-madjedbebe-2017",
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{
"sourceId": "essential-ashoka-columbia-edicts",
"supports": "Stated chronology; translated proclamations concerning servants, other sects and Kalinga."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-columbia-mauryan-context",
"supports": "Centralized Mauryan statecraft; Ashoka’s Buddhist patronage and disseminated inscriptions."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
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"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Long-lived influence on education, political ethics and family norms across East Asia supports an 8. The collection provides introductory access to that history without assigning all effects to one teacher.",
"limitations": "Textual formation is uncertain; later adoption supports influence but does not verify each attributed dialogue.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-sep-confucius",
"supports": "Contested formation, diverse attributed sayings and later authority."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-columbia-confucian-revival",
"supports": "Analects within education and examinations; changing traditions; reception beyond China."
}
],
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"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
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"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "An enduring community model and calendar anchor within a religious and political development reaching many regions. A clear teaching milestone, not the sole cause of every later Islamic achievement.",
"limitations": "The score assesses documented institutions and reception, not the truth or moral merit of religious claims.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-harvard-hijra",
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},
{
"sourceId": "essential-met-birth-islam",
"supports": "Early community, later political and cultural expansion beyond Arabia."
}
],
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"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"lapita-pacific-expansion": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 6,
"learningValue": 4,
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"limitations": "A broad expansion assessment; not a date for every island or later Pacific voyage.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-teara-lapita",
"supports": "Approximate chronology, routes, settlement and continued island contact."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
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},
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"learningValue": 4,
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"limitations": "Scope is the dated pilgrimage and supported patronage; later Sahelian achievements are not assigned wholesale to Musa.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-met-mali-chronology",
"supports": "Pilgrimage chronology, international visibility and older Timbuktu connections."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-met-sahel",
"supports": "Pilgrimage connections, patronage and study; indigenous urban histories preceding external trade."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"black-death-europe": {
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"historicalImpact": 8,
"learningValue": 5,
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"limitations": "Scores use established demographic and institutional consequences; uniform liberation, progress or biological improvement is not assumed.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-campop-black-death",
"supports": "1347–51 western European mortality estimate and prolonged population effects."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-eldridge-plague-labor",
"supports": "English labor shortages, wage pressure and legislative responses."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-robb-plague-continuity",
"supports": "Limits on attributing changes in everyday health and lifestyle to plague."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-spyrou-plague-2022",
"supports": "Central Eurasian evidence and wider second-pandemic context; dates extend beyond this European episode."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"columbus-atlantic-crossing-1492": {
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"learningValue": 5,
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"limitations": "Historical impact does not imply admiration for conquest or treat Indigenous peoples as absent before Europeans.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-loc-columbus-taino",
"supports": "Inhabited Guanahani, Taíno institutions and voyage chronology."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-loc-atlantic-joined",
"supports": "Continuing encounters, introduced species, disease, forced mining and agricultural disruption."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-nunn-qian-exchange-2010",
"supports": "Effects beyond Europe and the Americas, food diffusion, forced African migration and demographic uncertainty."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"transatlantic-slave-trade": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Centuries of forced migration transformed Atlantic populations and economic power. This introductory anchor explains linked wealth and domination without reducing slavery’s many histories to one route.",
"limitations": "The score concerns enduring consequences, not moral approval or a ranking of suffering.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-atlas-slave-trade",
"supports": "Conventional 1501–1867 span; estimated scale; forced migration and incomplete records."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-smithsonian-global-slavery",
"supports": "Colonial sugar, enslaved labor and Atlantic trade contributed to state wealth."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 10,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A rare foundational assessment: industrial production and fossil energy durably altered work, transport and material life across regions. The score covers the process, not one inventor or an isolated machine.",
"limitations": "The bracket is approximate; industrial pathways and gains differed sharply among societies.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-industrialization-overview",
"supports": "1750–1850 conventional bracket; mechanized factories; industrial transport diffusion."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-industrial-energy",
"supports": "Industrial growth connected modern living standards to energy and environmental challenges."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-industrial-cotton",
"supports": "Manchester textile production and US enslaved cotton labor expanded together."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit.",
"foundationalJustification": "A rare foundational assessment: industrial production and fossil energy durably altered work, transport and material life across regions. The score covers the process, not one inventor or an isolated machine."
},
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"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 8,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "An influential medical demonstration whose later use crossed regions. It teaches prevention and the importance of collective delivery; eradication belongs to generations of researchers and health workers.",
"limitations": "Assesses a pivotal demonstration within a longer process, not sole credit for vaccination.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-jenner-vaccination",
"supports": "1796 experiment, folk knowledge and 1798 publication."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-who-vaccination-history",
"supports": "Earlier practices; worldwide vaccination, surveillance and containment; 1980 eradication."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"haitian-independence": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 8,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A durable break with colonial slavery with consequences beyond Haiti. It makes collective resistance visible and shows why proclaimed liberty and slaveholding republics could coexist elsewhere.",
"limitations": "The declaration anchors a complex revolution, not every later emancipation movement.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-haitian-revolution-loc",
"supports": "1804 declaration date; antislavery and anticolonial revolution; wider political responses."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-haitian-recognition",
"supports": "Delayed recognition, US policy responses and violent aftermath."
}
],
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"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"snow-cholera-investigations": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
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"limitations": "Assesses the investigations and demonstrated methodological legacy, not the entire public-health transition.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-snow-epidemiology",
"supports": "Methods, waterborne transmission and limits of observational comparison."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-snow-legacy",
"supports": "International legacy of epidemiological investigation."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"new-zealand-womens-suffrage": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
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"limitations": "The score does not attribute other countries’ suffrage victories to New Zealand alone.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-nz-suffrage-history",
"supports": "1893 assent, legal eligibility limits, international responses and 1919 candidacy."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-nz-suffrage-contributors",
"supports": "First self-governing country; collective and Māori contributions."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"first-world-war": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A broad transformation of political power and social conditions across regions. It connects industrial warfare, empire and later instability while preserving the role of subsequent human choices.",
"limitations": "A short anchor cannot represent every front, community or consequence.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-first-world-war-nam",
"supports": "1914–1918 span, global theaters and collapse of four empires."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-first-world-war-ushmm",
"supports": "Wide conflict, mass losses, displacement and enduring consequences."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"holocaust": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Mass destruction across Europe and a lasting aftermath warrant exceptionally high impact. The learning value concerns persecution, complicity and protection, not a comparison of victims’ worth.",
"limitations": "A summary cannot substitute for victims’ and survivors’ individual histories.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-holocaust-introduction",
"supports": "1933–1945 period, antisemitism, six million Jews murdered and community destruction."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-holocaust-aftermath",
"supports": "Displacement, postwar antisemitism and barriers to rebuilding lives."
}
],
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"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"universal-declaration-human-rights": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 9,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "A widely used foundation for legal standards across regions. It teaches both shared rights language and the gap between an agreed aspiration and enforceable protection.",
"limitations": "Legal influence is distinct from compliance and from claiming identical interpretations everywhere.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-udhr-history",
"supports": "Adoption date, interrelated rights, treaty influence, national law and implementation limits."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-udhr-status",
"supports": "Original lack of binding treaty force and the later customary-law role of provisions."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
},
"ipcc-first-assessment": {
"status": "assessed",
"historicalImpact": 7,
"learningValue": 5,
"rationale": "Established influence on international negotiations supports impact across scientific and political systems. Its learning value is explaining assessment and collective decisions, not forecasting future importance.",
"limitations": "Assesses documented institutional influence; scientific projections are not scored as realized consequences.",
"references": [
{
"sourceId": "essential-ipcc-far-overview",
"supports": "Assessment structure, human greenhouse-gas increases and stated uncertainties."
},
{
"sourceId": "essential-unfccc-legal-history",
"supports": "Assessment contribution to successful treaty negotiation; scientific advice and political agreements are distinct."
}
],
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"rubricVersion": "nhi-impact-learning-v1",
"assessor": "AI-assisted editorial assessment by ChatGPT; no independent human review is claimed.",
"inspectionBasis": "New bounded source inspection, limited to the cited passages, previews or abstracts; no independent human review or exhaustive literature audit."
}
},
"calibration": [
{
"eventId": "jebel-irhoud",
"reasoning": "A fossil occurrence is evidence for origins, not the cause of human evolution: impact 5, learning 5. Dating uncertainty remains factual metadata."
},
{
"eventId": "blombos-drawing",
"reasoning": "An intentional drawing can reveal a larger human story without a demonstrated causal chain: impact 3, learning 4."
},
{
"eventId": "newton-1687",
"reasoning": "A foundational physical synthesis merits 9 with reception support; the manuscript is not the invention of every component of mechanics."
},
{
"eventId": "bell-test-2015",
"reasoning": "Closing loopholes strengthens an existing experiment sequence: impact 4, learning 3, below the theoretical anchor."
},
{
"eventId": "national-security-act",
"reasoning": "A law reorganizing major defense institutions is distinct from a routine designation: impact 7, learning 5, geographically bounded."
},
{
"eventId": "space-darpa-name-1996",
"reasoning": "A return to the DARPA name is not a second invention of advanced research; insufficient consequence evidence warrants null rather than borrowing the agency anchor score."
},
{
"eventId": "nag-hammadi-composition",
"reasoning": "Religious composition has cultural consequences; the texts do not prove their supernatural explanations: impact 5, learning 4."
},
{
"eventId": "ra-book-2-sessions",
"reasoning": "Later channeling sessions are documented attributed transcripts; consequences outside the group are insufficiently established, so both scores remain null."
},
{
"eventId": "nasa-report",
"reasoning": "A public research report can teach methods: impact 4, learning 4. It is neither a confirmed contact event nor proof that every report is explained."
},
{
"eventId": "house-hearing-2023",
"reasoning": "Testimony enters an oversight record: impact 4, learning 4. Firsthand observations and relayed allegations stay separate."
},
{
"eventId": "pakal-palenque-tomb",
"reasoning": "Ancient tomb and royal practice: impact 4, learning 4. Do not give it the modern excavation date."
},
{
"eventId": "pakal-tomb-discovery-1952",
"reasoning": "Modern excavation changes access to evidence: impact 4, learning 3. Discovery did not create the ancient achievement."
}
],
"essentialPath": {
"version": "essentials-r01-2026-10-12",
"count": 90,
"reviewedOn": "2026-10-12",
"selectionMethod": "A score-informed candidate review followed by explicit editorial choices for distinct explanatory anchors, source boundaries, collective contributions and wider geographic/subject breadth. The manifest is fixed; filtering does not refill it, and later imports cannot silently displace it.",
"coverageLimits": "This starting path is still strongest in science and selected ancient societies. African histories beyond origins and Mali, South and Southeast Asia, Indigenous North America, decolonization, economic institutions, everyday labor and disability history need deeper coverage. Religious and Pacific entries are starting examples, not substitutes for living traditions. English-language source availability shapes this release; continental presence does not establish fair coverage.",
"items": [
{
"eventId": "jebel-irhoud",
"reason": "Associated fossils and dating expanded evidence for early Homo sapiens across Africa; this score concerns what the evidence reveals, not an invention of humanity at this site.",
"question": "What can fossils establish about our origins, and what remains uncertain?"
},
{
"eventId": "blombos-drawing",
"reason": "A surviving intentional drawing reveals early graphic practice; its unknown meaning and lack of demonstrated downstream influence constrain impact.",
"question": "How do we distinguish deliberate marks from knowing what they meant?"
},
{
"eventId": "madjedbebe-occupation",
"reason": "Introduces Oceania and shows how material evidence supports deep history without exact dates.",
"question": "How can we reconstruct a human past that left no written records?"
},
{
"eventId": "independent-agriculture",
"reason": "Connects the food on our plates with settlement and ecological change, including costs.",
"question": "What changed when people began producing more of their food?"
},
{
"eventId": "mesopotamian-writing",
"reason": "Shows why records matter and why writing, language and state power are related but distinct.",
"question": "Who gets to record information, and whose lives enter the written record?"
},
{
"eventId": "khufu-giza-engineering",
"reason": "A monumental construction system reveals skilled labor, materials and state organization; uncertainty about methods is not evidence of non-human builders.",
"question": "How do labor, logistics and state organization turn a design into a monument?"
},
{
"eventId": "unas-pyramid-texts",
"reason": "Surviving royal afterlife texts attest religious practice and later reuse; written belief does not establish the claimed supernatural mechanism.",
"question": "What can a text establish about belief without proving its supernatural claims?"
},
{
"eventId": "lapita-pacific-expansion",
"reason": "Adds Pacific history and a collective achievement beyond continental empires.",
"question": "How could distant islands remain connected through ocean travel?"
},
{
"eventId": "analects-textual-formation",
"reason": "Introduces an influential intellectual tradition and the work of transmission and reinterpretation.",
"question": "How do teachings change as readers, governments and schools carry them forward?"
},
{
"eventId": "aristotle-cosmos",
"reason": "The text made a systematic argument about bodies and one cosmos inspectable; its premises are not an observational proof of cosmic uniqueness.",
"question": "Which assumptions made one picture of the universe persuasive?"
},
{
"eventId": "epicurus-worlds",
"reason": "The letter preserved a reasoned plurality-of-worlds argument, an instructive alternative to later observations rather than an ancient detection.",
"question": "What is the difference between reasoning about other worlds and observing them?"
},
{
"eventId": "ashoka-rock-edicts",
"reason": "Offers an early, inspectable example of a state explaining its moral responsibilities after violence.",
"question": "How do we compare a government’s public ideals with the way it uses power?"
},
{
"eventId": "nag-hammadi-composition",
"reason": "Composition produced a diverse body of religious literature; dating and survival remain uncertain and no uniform doctrine is assumed.",
"question": "How do diverse writings survive, and whose interpretations shape their labels?"
},
{
"eventId": "teotihuacan-urban-engineering",
"reason": "A large planned city reveals collective housing, infrastructure and ritual organization beyond individual rulers or monuments.",
"question": "What collective systems are needed to sustain a large city?"
},
{
"eventId": "athanasius-letter-367",
"reason": "The letter explicitly distinguished canonical and other writings, revealing how religious boundaries were articulated in one institutional setting.",
"question": "Who defines which texts belong within an institution?"
},
{
"eventId": "aryabhata-499",
"reason": "Mathematical astronomy gave an explicit Earth-motion interpretation; adjacent verses and later commentary limit reconstruction of a modern-like cosmology.",
"question": "How can our own motion change what we seem to see?"
},
{
"eventId": "hijra-medina-622",
"reason": "Helps explain a major living religious tradition and distinguishes its beginning from its later diversity.",
"question": "What changes when shared belief becomes a community with institutions and political power?"
},
{
"eventId": "pakal-palenque-tomb",
"reason": "Pakal's tomb combines dynastic inscriptions and religious imagery in a documented Maya setting; it is not evidence of an astronaut.",
"question": "How do inscriptions and context change the interpretation of a striking image?"
},
{
"eventId": "chichen-itza-regional-center",
"reason": "A regional center's monumental and cultural record reveals exchange and urban organization in Yucatan without resolving every migration narrative.",
"question": "What can a city show about exchange without proving every story of its origins?"
},
{
"eventId": "ibn-al-haytham-optics",
"reason": "Optical investigation combined geometrical reasoning, observations and criticism of assumptions, a substantial documented method contribution.",
"question": "How can an experiment challenge an explanation of something as familiar as seeing?"
},
{
"eventId": "shen-kuo-1088",
"reason": "Needle comparisons recorded magnetic behavior and acknowledged ignorance of its cause, a useful instrument-based teaching example.",
"question": "Can an instrument be useful before we understand why it works?"
},
{
"eventId": "al-tusi-astronomy",
"reason": "A mathematical construction altered astronomical model building; surviving manuscript diagrams do not establish every proposed later transmission.",
"question": "How do mathematical tools help people revise an inherited model?"
},
{
"eventId": "dresden-codex-astronomy",
"reason": "A surviving manuscript preserves precise astronomical calculation and ritual use, with living Maya practice and older knowledge distinct from the copy's date.",
"question": "How did careful calculation serve both practical and religious purposes?"
},
{
"eventId": "mansa-musa-pilgrimage",
"reason": "Counters a history that overlooks African states and shows how trade and learning connect regions.",
"question": "What does a ruler’s visible journey reveal—and conceal—about the people who sustain a society?"
},
{
"eventId": "black-death-europe",
"reason": "Shows why disease belongs in history and why economic and political responses must be examined separately.",
"question": "When a crisis changes who can work, how do workers and governments respond?"
},
{
"eventId": "gutenberg-printing",
"reason": "The workshop multiplied closely matching European texts while retaining hand finishing; this is not the invention of printing worldwide.",
"question": "What changes when many readers can compare closely matching texts?"
},
{
"eventId": "tenochtitlan-water-city",
"reason": "Water infrastructure sustained urban life alongside tribute and imperial power, linking technical achievement to political costs.",
"question": "How do infrastructure and political power support each other?"
},
{
"eventId": "columbus-atlantic-crossing-1492",
"reason": "Connects familiar foods and world trade with histories of Indigenous societies, colonial violence and forced migration.",
"question": "How can the same network spread food and knowledge while also spreading disease and domination?"
},
{
"eventId": "transatlantic-slave-trade",
"reason": "Explains how commerce, colonial power and stolen labor became deeply connected.",
"question": "Whose labor created wealth, and who controlled its benefits?"
},
{
"eventId": "copernicus-1543",
"reason": "The book made a calculable Sun-centered arrangement available for criticism; publication did not immediately establish every claim or replace every older model.",
"question": "What would distinguish an elegant model from a well-supported explanation?"
},
{
"eventId": "florentine-codex-1577",
"reason": "A bilingual collaborative manuscript preserves Nahua knowledge and conquest accounts under colonial constraints, with differences between languages retained.",
"question": "How can different languages preserve different perspectives on the same conquest?"
},
{
"eventId": "kepler-1609",
"reason": "Observations of Mars supported revision from a circle to an ellipse, a major bounded model change rather than a sudden universal answer.",
"question": "When should inconvenient measurements make us change a model?"
},
{
"eventId": "galileo-1610",
"reason": "Published telescope observations challenged inherited celestial accounts through newly inspectable phenomena and tools.",
"question": "What can a new instrument reveal that argument alone cannot?"
},
{
"eventId": "descartes-1637",
"reason": "The publication articulated a method for reasoning and investigation; a manifesto is not evidence that one person invented critical thought.",
"question": "How do methods guide inquiry without guaranteeing that an answer is right?"
},
{
"eventId": "newton-1687",
"reason": "The Principia joined terrestrial and celestial motion within a durable mathematical account, with later physical understanding built around and then qualifying its laws.",
"question": "Can one account explain motion on Earth and motion in the sky?"
},
{
"eventId": "popol-vuh-surviving-manuscript",
"reason": "A K'iche' sacred-history manuscript preserves Indigenous language and a colonial transmission chain; religious truth is not established by preservation.",
"question": "What survives when a living tradition passes through a colonial manuscript?"
},
{
"eventId": "industrialization-britain",
"reason": "Connects everyday manufactured goods and paid work to energy use, global trade and unequal costs.",
"question": "How can a productive system create abundance and serious harm at the same time?"
},
{
"eventId": "jenner-smallpox-vaccination",
"reason": "Shows how prevention became practical and why discovery still requires organized public-health work.",
"question": "What must happen between a useful experiment and protection for an entire population?"
},
{
"eventId": "haitian-independence",
"reason": "Places enslaved people’s successful struggle at the center of the history of freedom.",
"question": "Who was included when revolutionary governments claimed to defend liberty?"
},
{
"eventId": "rosetta-champollion-1822",
"reason": "Decipherment enlarged access to ancient Egyptian written history through cumulative language work and testing, not a single unexplained insight.",
"question": "How do language knowledge and repeated testing make an old script readable?"
},
{
"eventId": "faraday-1831",
"reason": "Induction demonstrated a repeatable interaction later fundamental to electric machines and magnetic recording; apparatus development involved other investigators too.",
"question": "How does a repeatable laboratory effect become a practical machine?"
},
{
"eventId": "snow-cholera-investigations",
"reason": "Shows how asking who became ill, where and after which exposure can guide action.",
"question": "How can comparisons test a suspected cause when a controlled experiment is unavailable?"
},
{
"eventId": "darwin-wallace-1858",
"reason": "Joint presentation introduced a mechanism of natural selection that remains central to multiple biological fields; the 1858 papers were one step in a longer development.",
"question": "How can small differences accumulate across generations?"
},
{
"eventId": "maxwell-1865",
"reason": "A mathematical theory unified electromagnetic phenomena and light, a major explanatory connection rather than the creation of every later application.",
"question": "What becomes possible when phenomena once studied separately fit one explanation?"
},
{
"eventId": "cajal-neuron-1888",
"reason": "Microscopy supported distinct neuronal structures, a concrete contribution to understanding nervous tissue rather than a full explanation of consciousness.",
"question": "How can better preparation and microscopy change an account of the brain?"
},
{
"eventId": "tesla-1888",
"reason": "Patented alternating-current motor arrangements gave a practical electrical-machine contribution; industrial electrification cannot be attributed to this patent alone.",
"question": "Why does an invention need systems, workers and investment to become widely useful?"
},
{
"eventId": "james-1890",
"reason": "An account of the stream of thought made a lasting psychological question explicit; introspective description is distinct from a complete neural mechanism.",
"question": "What can describing experience establish before we know its physical mechanism?"
},
{
"eventId": "new-zealand-womens-suffrage",
"reason": "Demonstrates that democratic participation was fought for and could still exclude people.",
"question": "Who can vote, who can govern, and which exclusions remain?"
},
{
"eventId": "curie-1898",
"reason": "Evidence for radium extended knowledge of radioactive matter; the announcement did not itself establish all later medical uses or their risks.",
"question": "How can evidence of a new material open questions about both benefits and risks?"
},
{
"eventId": "planck-1900",
"reason": "Finite energy elements supplied a crucial step in radiation theory and quantum development; later quantum mechanics was a separate achievement.",
"question": "When can a successful calculation point toward a new physical idea?"
},
{
"eventId": "wright-1903",
"reason": "Controlled powered flights demonstrated a technical capability through recorded tests; aircraft diffusion depended on later collective work.",
"question": "What must be controlled to turn a flight attempt into a repeatable capability?"
},
{
"eventId": "einstein-1905",
"reason": "Special relativity reformulated space, time and motion for a specified physical domain, changing rather than abolishing older useful approximations.",
"question": "Which familiar assumptions about time and space depend on how we move?"
},
{
"eventId": "rutherford-1911",
"reason": "Scattering analysis replaced a diffuse atomic model with a concentrated center, a substantial experimentally bounded structural inference.",
"question": "How can patterns of scattering reveal structures too small to see directly?"
},
{
"eventId": "leavitt-1912",
"reason": "A relation between variable-star periods and brightness supplied an astronomical distance tool, with calibration and later uses distinct from this initial work.",
"question": "How can one measured relationship become a tool for measuring distance?"
},
{
"eventId": "first-world-war",
"reason": "Explains a major break in the international order and the human costs behind it.",
"question": "How do war, its settlement and later political choices interact?"
},
{
"eventId": "einstein-gr-1915",
"reason": "Field equations changed gravitation into a geometrical theory with testable consequences; later confirmations do not belong to the submission date.",
"question": "What observations could test a different explanation of gravity?"
},
{
"eventId": "hubble-1925",
"reason": "Cepheid distances placed spiral nebulae beyond the Milky Way, transforming the demonstrated scale of the astronomical world.",
"question": "How did measuring distance change the scale of the known universe?"
},
{
"eventId": "payne-1925",
"reason": "Atomic analysis of stellar atmospheres changed the interpretation of stellar composition; collaboration and the broader spectral program remain part of the story.",
"question": "How do measurements of light tell us what distant stars contain?"
},
{
"eventId": "quantum-1926",
"reason": "A wave equation supplied a predictive mathematical framework for atomic energy levels, within a wider collective quantum-mechanics development.",
"question": "What does a mathematical prediction tell us, and what does it leave open?"
},
{
"eventId": "lemaitre-1927",
"reason": "A model connected expansion with measured redshifts; cosmological inference remained dependent on later measurements and alternatives.",
"question": "How do mathematical models and measurements of galaxies constrain each other?"
},
{
"eventId": "holocaust",
"reason": "Makes systematic persecution and its lasting human consequences visible in shared history.",
"question": "How can discrimination become organized violence, and what responsibilities do others have?"
},
{
"eventId": "radar-1935",
"reason": "Radio detection of an aircraft demonstrated a practical sensing capability; mature radar systems required subsequent engineering.",
"question": "How can reflected signals extend what people can detect?"
},
{
"eventId": "turing-1936",
"reason": "Formalizing computation exposed what specified machines can calculate and where limits arise; this paper did not itself build modern computers.",
"question": "Are there limits to what a perfectly specified procedure can calculate?"
},
{
"eventId": "fission-1939",
"reason": "Explaining uranium splitting clarified a mechanism essential to nuclear energy and weapons, without collapsing discovery, reactor operation and weapon deployment.",
"question": "How can the same physical mechanism support energy production and destruction?"
},
{
"eventId": "einstein-szilard-letter",
"reason": "A specific advocacy letter urged state attention to nuclear research; it explains a documented policy intervention without making Einstein a bomb designer.",
"question": "When can scientific knowledge become a responsibility to inform public decisions?"
},
{
"eventId": "nag-hammadi-discovery",
"reason": "The modern manuscript discovery expanded the accessible evidence for early religious diversity; it did not create the ancient beliefs it reveals.",
"question": "How can recovering old documents change the questions historians can ask?"
},
{
"eventId": "trinity-test",
"reason": "The first atomic test demonstrated a destructive physical capability that the subsequent bombings made materially consequential; the test is distinct from deployment.",
"question": "What changes when a destructive capability moves from theory to demonstration?"
},
{
"eventId": "hiroshima-nagasaki-1945",
"reason": "Atomic attacks destroyed cities and inflicted immediate and lasting human harm, establishing the lived consequences of the nuclear capability demonstrated at Trinity.",
"question": "How do we keep human consequences visible when describing technical power?"
},
{
"eventId": "aec-established",
"reason": "The law assigned atomic administration to a civilian commission; creation and operational transfer are different dated changes.",
"question": "How should a society govern a technology with civilian and military uses?"
},
{
"eventId": "national-security-act",
"reason": "The act reorganized U.S. defense and foreign-policy coordination through the NSC, CIA and a separate Air Force, with enduring institutional reach.",
"question": "How do new institutions change the way a government makes and checks decisions?"
},
{
"eventId": "shannon-1948",
"reason": "Communication theory defined quantitative relationships between messages, noise and capacity; it does not measure meaning or truth.",
"question": "How can a channel carry information reliably despite noise?"
},
{
"eventId": "universal-declaration-human-rights",
"reason": "Explains a central language of modern rights and why implementation still matters.",
"question": "What turns a declaration of rights into practical protection?"
},
{
"eventId": "maya-writing-decipherment",
"reason": "Decipherment recovered historical names and dynastic records through multiple researchers' work, changing what surviving inscriptions could establish.",
"question": "What changes when images can be read as names, words and histories?"
},
{
"eventId": "dna-1953",
"reason": "A structure tied to experimental evidence explained DNA organization, providing a major molecular-biological account with collective credit and subsequent questions.",
"question": "How did structure, measurements and collective work change our understanding of heredity?"
},
{
"eventId": "sputnik-1957",
"reason": "Sputnik demonstrated orbital satellite capability and provoked institutional responses including NASA; later satellite services are not discoveries made by this simple transmitter.",
"question": "How did a small satellite change what governments chose to build?"
},
{
"eventId": "arpa-established",
"reason": "An advanced defense-research agency created a durable organizational vehicle for technical projects, without validating speculative technologies attributed to it.",
"question": "What does organizing and funding research establish, and what does it not?"
},
{
"eventId": "nasa-established",
"reason": "NASA's creation established a civilian space institution; inspected NASA history links its origin to the Sputnik response and subsequent missions.",
"question": "How can an institution turn an ambition into a continuing research program?"
},
{
"eventId": "gagarin-1961",
"reason": "A completed human orbital flight established a capability and human exposure to orbit, distinct from later surface exploration.",
"question": "What did a completed human orbit establish that a plan could not?"
},
{
"eventId": "johnson-1962",
"reason": "Checking orbital calculations supplied a documented operational contribution and a way to see essential labor beyond famous astronauts.",
"question": "Whose essential work can disappear behind a celebrated mission?"
},
{
"eventId": "bell-1964",
"reason": "A mathematical inequality made a class of local models experimentally testable; later violations are separate records and do not imply mind-powered communication.",
"question": "How can a disagreement about reality become an experimentally testable question?"
},
{
"eventId": "cmb-1965",
"reason": "Microwave measurements with a hot-universe interpretation supplied strong observational constraints on cosmology, with further spectral tests still needed.",
"question": "What traces could distinguish different histories of the universe?"
},
{
"eventId": "pulsars-1967",
"reason": "Resolving regular pulses uncovered a new astronomical phenomenon through anomaly checks and collective observing work.",
"question": "How do repeated checks turn a strange signal into a scientific finding?"
},
{
"eventId": "apollo-1969",
"reason": "Landing and return demonstrated human surface exploration beyond Earth through a large operational system and extensive material records.",
"question": "What systems and collective labor make a difficult mission possible?"
},
{
"eventId": "rubin-rotation-curves",
"reason": "Galaxy rotation measurements strengthened a mass-distribution problem with instrument-enabled evidence, leaving the physical explanation open.",
"question": "When observations imply missing mass, what is known and what is still unexplained?"
},
{
"eventId": "ipcc-first-assessment",
"reason": "Shows how scientific evidence and uncertainty can inform action involving many governments.",
"question": "How can governments act on strong evidence while remaining honest about uncertainty?"
},
{
"eventId": "neanderthal-2010",
"reason": "Ancient DNA comparison changed supported human population history by identifying admixture, with sampled individuals and model limits explicit.",
"question": "How can ancient DNA test stories about contact between human populations?"
},
{
"eventId": "crispr-2012",
"reason": "Programmable guide-RNA cutting supplied a mechanism later adopted for genome editing; the inspected synthesis establishes research and crop applications, not every forecast treatment.",
"question": "What choices become possible when people can deliberately edit genetic material?"
},
{
"eventId": "ligo-2015",
"reason": "Direct gravitational-wave observation added a measurement channel for astronomy; the recorded signal and later public interpretation have different dates.",
"question": "How do independent instruments help establish a very faint signal?"
},
{
"eventId": "acre-geoglyph-forest-management-2017",
"reason": "Forest-management evidence challenges a simple untouched-Amazon narrative; a study's publication did not originate Indigenous land knowledge.",
"question": "What evidence challenges the idea of a landscape untouched by people?"
},
{
"eventId": "casarabe-bolivia-lidar-2022",
"reason": "Mapping extended evidence for pre-Hispanic tropical urban systems in Bolivia, not Brazil; survey boundaries limit generalization.",
"question": "How can people adapt settlement and water systems to a tropical landscape?"
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