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  {
   "slug": "battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo",
   "name": "Battle of Los Angeles searchlight photograph",
   "kind": "photograph",
   "date": "1942-02-25",
   "year": 1942,
   "lat": 33.94,
   "lon": -118.24,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Los Angeles, California (skies over the harbor district)",
   "coord_source": "Los Angeles (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Los Angeles Times staff photographer",
   "side": "press",
   "released": "1942-02-26",
   "released_by": "Los Angeles Times (front page)",
   "official_status": "Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the alarm a false alarm the next day; the Army said unidentified aircraft may have been present, and a 1983 Office of Air Force History study attributed the shooting to a weather balloon and war nerves.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Battle_of_Los_Angeles_LATimes.jpg?width=800",
   "summary": "The retouched Los Angeles Times photograph of 25 February 1942 showing anti-aircraft searchlights converging on a point over the city during a night barrage of more than 1,400 shells at unidentified objects. In the corpus the episode with Harald Malmgren describes a UFO flying down the coast and General Marshall being briefed.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [],
   "events": [
    "1942-battle-of-los-angeles"
   ],
   "people": [
    "harald-malmgren",
    "richard-dolan"
   ],
   "sites": [],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "09KP8XVf5nY",
     "ts": "1:57:54",
     "quote": "the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942 where a UFO shows up and like flies down the coast and George Marshall was briefed to that. And so that very interesting. Okay. So you"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "GQlWf54K_7Y",
     "ts": "0:08:28",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "he starts with the Battle of Los Angeles but he he goes through like the really the UK"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Battle of Los Angeles",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "mcminnville-1950",
   "name": "McMinnville (Trent) photographs",
   "kind": "photograph",
   "date": "1950-05-11",
   "year": 1950,
   "lat": 45.2101,
   "lon": -123.1987,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Trent farm near McMinnville, Oregon",
   "coord_source": "McMinnville, Oregon (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Paul Trent, farmer, with a Roamer camera",
   "side": "civilian",
   "released": "1950-06-08",
   "released_by": "McMinnville Telephone-Register; then LIFE magazine, 1950-06-26",
   "official_status": "The 1968 Condon Report listed the photographs among cases it could not explain, while later analysts argued the object was a small model suspended from overhead wires.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville,_Oregon.jpg?width=800",
   "summary": "Two photographs taken by Paul Trent at his farm near McMinnville, Oregon on 11 May 1950, showing a disc-shaped object above the yard. Printed in the local paper and LIFE. In the corpus the skeptic describes the object as resembling a tossed hubcap while conceding the case is hard to debunk.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [
    "flying-saucer-disc"
   ],
   "events": [
    "1950-mcminnville"
   ],
   "people": [
    "paul-trent"
   ],
   "sites": [],
   "documents": [
    "condon-report"
   ],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "8Rr_nE65KkI",
     "ts": "0:49:06",
     "quote": "There are other cases like McMinnville where you it's really hard to debunk. >> The McMinnville one. I mean, really, this looks like a hubcap tossed into the >> but there's no way to ultimately debunk it. It's unfalsifiable in"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "Rjr3Yq-dMUE",
     "ts": "1:49:20",
     "quote": "the McMinnville. >> that's like a holy grail you know that's >> it's very hard to find a picture can say that wow this"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "zjpvfDFc4fg",
     "ts": "0:51:21",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "The other went to McMinnville, Oregon, the site of one of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken in 1950. All slightly schitzo coincidences?"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "McMinnville UFO photographs",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnville_UFO_photographs",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "great-falls-1950",
   "name": "Great Falls (Mariana) film",
   "kind": "film",
   "date": "1950-08-15",
   "year": 1950,
   "lat": 47.5053,
   "lon": -111.3008,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Legion Ballpark, Great Falls, Montana",
   "coord_source": "Great Falls, Montana (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Nick Mariana, general manager of the Great Falls Electrics baseball club, with a 16 mm camera",
   "side": "civilian",
   "released": "1950-1951",
   "released_by": "Nick Mariana (public showings); Air Force analysis 1950 and 1952",
   "official_status": "Project Blue Book attributed the two objects to reflections from a pair of F-94 jets known to be in the area, a finding Mariana disputed, saying frames showing the objects as discs had been removed.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nick_Mariana_UFO_Footage_1950_Great_Falls_Montana.webm?width=800",
   "summary": "A 16 mm film taken by Nick Mariana in Great Falls, Montana on 15 August 1950, showing two bright points crossing the sky. The Air Force examined it twice and attributed the objects to jets; Mariana said frames had gone missing. The corpus mentions Great Falls only as the town next to Malmstrom Air Force Base.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [
    "orb-sphere"
   ],
   "events": [],
   "people": [],
   "sites": [
    "malmstrom-afb"
   ],
   "documents": [
    "project-blue-book"
   ],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "-0g3lLGxNfc",
     "ts": "0:06:17",
     "speaker": "Robert Salas",
     "speaker_slug": "robert-salas",
     "quote": "Falls and Melmstrom Air Force Base located near Great Falls. So at this uh site we we go underground to a what we call the launch"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Project Blue Book report – Great Falls, Montana, August 1950 (Commons copy)",
     "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1950-08-9615640-GreatFalls-Mont.pdf",
     "publisher": "Wikimedia Commons / US Air Force",
     "date": "1950"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Mariana UFO incident",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_UFO_incident",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "tremonton-1952",
   "name": "Tremonton (Newhouse) film",
   "kind": "film",
   "date": "1952-07-02",
   "year": 1952,
   "lat": 41.7119,
   "lon": -112.1655,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "US Route 30S near Tremonton, Utah",
   "coord_source": "Tremonton, Utah (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Delbert C. Newhouse, US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, with a 16 mm Bell & Howell camera",
   "side": "US Navy (off duty)",
   "released": "1952–1956",
   "released_by": "US Air Force / Navy photo analysis; shown in the 1956 film \"Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers\"",
   "official_status": "The 1953 CIA Robertson Panel concluded the objects were most likely birds (seagulls) reflecting sunlight, overruling a Navy photo-lab analysis that had found them self-luminous.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "A 16 mm colour film shot by Navy warrant officer Delbert Newhouse near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, showing a dozen bright objects milling against a clear sky. The Navy photographic laboratory spent weeks on frame analysis; the Robertson Panel decided the objects were birds. The corpus does not discuss this film.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [
    "orb-sphere"
   ],
   "events": [],
   "people": [],
   "sites": [],
   "documents": [
    "robertson-panel",
    "project-blue-book"
   ],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Robertson Panel report (Commons copy)",
     "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf",
     "publisher": "Wikimedia Commons / CIA",
     "date": "1953-01"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Tremonton UFO film (Project Blue Book case)",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "calvine-1990",
   "name": "Calvine photograph",
   "kind": "photograph",
   "date": "1990-08-04",
   "year": 1990,
   "lat": 56.72,
   "lon": -3.95,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Calvine, near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland",
   "coord_source": "Calvine hamlet (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Two hikers (one identified in 2022 as Kevin Russell)",
   "side": "civilian",
   "released": "2022-08-12",
   "released_by": "Sheffield Hallam University (Dr David Clarke) after a copy was located with a former RAF press officer",
   "official_status": "The UK Ministry of Defence said in 1990s files that the object was 'probably a hoax' or unexplained, withheld the original negatives, and extended the file's closure to 2072 before the copy print surfaced in 2022.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "A daylight photograph taken near Calvine, Scotland on 4 August 1990, reported to show a large diamond-shaped object with a military jet in frame. The Daily Record received the photographs but did not print them; the MoD kept the file closed. One print was made public in 2022. The corpus does not discuss it.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [
    "diamond"
   ],
   "events": [],
   "people": [],
   "sites": [],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "The Calvine UFO photo: revealed after 32 years",
     "url": "https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2022/08/12/the-calvine-ufo-photo/",
     "publisher": "Dr David Clarke, Sheffield Hallam University",
     "date": "2022-08-12"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "UFO photo \"the best ever seen\" released after 32 years",
     "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62520920",
     "publisher": "BBC News",
     "date": "2022-08-13"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "phoenix-lights-1997",
   "name": "Phoenix Lights home videos",
   "kind": "video",
   "date": "1997-03-13",
   "year": 1997,
   "lat": 33.4484,
   "lon": -112.074,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Phoenix, Arizona",
   "coord_source": "Phoenix, Arizona (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Several Phoenix residents (Mike Krzyston, Tom King and others) with camcorders",
   "side": "civilian",
   "released": "1997-03",
   "released_by": "Local television stations; USA Today national story 1997-06-18",
   "official_status": "The Arizona Air National Guard and the US Air Force said the 10 pm lights were LUU-2 flares dropped by A-10 aircraft from the Maryland Air National Guard over the Barry Goldwater Range.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "Camcorder recordings made in Phoenix on the evening of 13 March 1997 showing a row of lights above the southern horizon that faded out one by one. Thousands of people also reported a large silent V-shaped formation earlier that evening. The Air Force attributed the filmed lights to flares; witnesses in the corpus reject the flare account.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [
    "black-triangle",
    "boomerang-chevron"
   ],
   "events": [
    "1997-phoenix-lights"
   ],
   "people": [
    "james-fox"
   ],
   "sites": [
    "phoenix"
   ],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "bVhSPH2A5Vw",
     "ts": "1:22:03",
     "quote": "this is the famous Phoenix Lights Phenix light 1997 March 13th in 1997 thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona witnessed a massive v-shaped formation of Lights moving silently across the sky known as the Phoenix Lights"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "hBrfe4hFuM0",
     "ts": "0:13:23",
     "quote": "I investigated the Phoenix Lights case and and a lot of the witnesses hate when you say Phoenix Lights. They're like, \"Wasn't a bunch of lights. It was a massive craft, you know,"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Phoenix Lights",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "hessdalen-ams-camera",
   "name": "Hessdalen automatic measurement station recordings",
   "kind": "video",
   "date": "1998–",
   "year": 1998,
   "lat": 62.79,
   "lon": 11.19,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Hessdalen valley, Holtålen, Trøndelag, Norway",
   "coord_source": "Hessdalen (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Project Hessdalen automatic camera station (Østfold University College, Erling Strand) and visiting researchers",
   "side": "academic",
   "released": "ongoing",
   "released_by": "Project Hessdalen (hessdalen.org) publishes station images; scientific papers from 2011 onward",
   "official_status": "No government body has issued a finding; Norwegian and Italian academic teams describe the recurring lights as a genuine but unexplained atmospheric luminous phenomenon.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210113.jpg?width=800",
   "summary": "Automated cameras in the Hessdalen valley, Norway have recorded unexplained lights since 1998, following a wave of reports in 1981–1984. Researchers publish images and spectra and propose plasma and geochemical models. The corpus mentions Hessdalen as a place with magnetic anomalies, in a conversation about geomagnetic themes in UFO reports.",
   "band": "well-supported",
   "crafts": [
    "plasma-light"
   ],
   "events": [
    "1981-1984-hessdalen-wave"
   ],
   "people": [
    "dennis-asberg"
   ],
   "sites": [
    "hessdalen"
   ],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "aGqFOxuYRT0",
     "ts": "0:26:28",
     "quote": "Hessdalen, you have, you know, magnetic anomalies as well. Um so, that that is a common theme in UFOs. Yeah. I remember"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Project Hessdalen",
     "url": "http://www.hessdalen.org/",
     "publisher": "Østfold University College"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Hessdalen lights",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lights",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "nimitz-2004-princeton-radar",
   "name": "USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks (Nimitz 2004)",
   "kind": "radar-data",
   "date": "2004-11-10",
   "year": 2004,
   "lat": 31.0,
   "lon": -117.5,
   "precision": "region",
   "region": "Pacific Ocean off Baja California, W of San Diego",
   "coord_source": "Nimitz Carrier Strike Group training area (approximate sea area)",
   "shot_by": "Aegis SPY-1 radar of USS Princeton, operated by Senior Chief Kevin Day",
   "side": "US Navy",
   "released": "not released",
   "released_by": "not released; described in witness accounts and the 2009 unsigned \"executive summary\"",
   "official_status": "The Navy has confirmed that the November 2004 encounters involved unidentified aerial phenomena but has released no radar data, and witnesses say the recordings were collected by unidentified personnel after the events.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "Radar operators aboard USS Princeton reported tracking groups of objects for about a week in November 2004 that descended from high altitude to the sea surface in seconds. The data were never released; witnesses say the tapes were removed. The corpus treats the radar track as part of a multi-sensor chain of custody.",
   "band": "well-supported",
   "crafts": [
    "tic-tac"
   ],
   "events": [
    "2004-nimitz-tic-tac"
   ],
   "people": [
    "kevin-day",
    "david-fravor"
   ],
   "sites": [
    "nimitz-carrier-group-2004"
   ],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [
    "N-CRAFT-0049"
   ],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:25:37",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "the USS Princeton is a guided missile cruiser. Um and it is part of this Nimmits um strike group and it is over the course of I think a week uh according to one of the witnesses the key witness Kevin Day um maybe 10 days I think 10 days sure okay um"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "8Rr_nE65KkI",
     "ts": "0:47:33",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "You have Kevin Day who's catching the thing with with radar on the USS Princeton. You have a whole chain of custody and you have all these different kind of you know multiensory corroborating things. You have"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "8Rr_nE65KkI",
     "ts": "1:10:03",
     "quote": "we have cases with witnesses and radar. >> Yes. Okay. So 45 minutes that nudges it from"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "flir1",
   "name": "FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video)",
   "kind": "infrared-video",
   "date": "2004-11-14",
   "year": 2004,
   "lat": 31.0,
   "lon": -117.5,
   "precision": "region",
   "region": "Pacific Ocean off Baja California, W of San Diego",
   "coord_source": "Nimitz Carrier Strike Group training area (approximate sea area)",
   "shot_by": "ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F flown by Lt Cdr Chad Underwood, VFA-41",
   "side": "US Navy",
   "released": "2017-12-16",
   "released_by": "To The Stars Academy / New York Times; DoD formal release 2020-04-27",
   "official_status": "The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'.",
   "public_domain": true,
   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FLIR1_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release.webm?width=800",
   "summary": "A 76-second ATFLIR clip recorded on 14 November 2004 by an F/A-18F from USS Nimitz, said to show the object that Cdr David Fravor had visually engaged earlier that day. It was published with the 2017 New York Times report and formally released by the Pentagon in 2020, which described it as unidentified.",
   "band": "documented",
   "crafts": [
    "tic-tac"
   ],
   "events": [
    "2004-nimitz-tic-tac",
    "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure",
    "2020-pentagon-video-release"
   ],
   "people": [
    "david-fravor",
    "chad-underwood",
    "mick-west"
   ],
   "sites": [
    "nimitz-carrier-group-2004"
   ],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [
    "N-SWEEP_B-0014",
    "N-CRAFT-0062"
   ],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:24:03",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "amazing fleer video, thermal video caught in November of 2004. uh you have eyewitnesses uh David Fraver who you mentioned who is really I think a source of uh belief for a lot of people"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:06:56",
     "speaker": "Mick West",
     "speaker_slug": "mick-west",
     "quote": "that kind of almost coincided with the uh 2017 December 2017 release of a New York Times article which came with these other videos, gimbal uh and the Fleer 1 video and Go Fast was released a little later. And yeah, when I when I"
    },
    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "8Rr_nE65KkI",
     "ts": "0:47:33",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "you have Chad Underwood catching the thing with forward looking infrared. You have Kevin Day who's catching the thing with with radar on the USS Princeton. You have a whole chain of custody and you"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos",
     "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/",
     "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense",
     "date": "2020-04-27"
    },
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Glowing Auras and \"Black Money\": The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program",
     "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html",
     "publisher": "The New York Times",
     "date": "2017-12-16"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "turkey-kumburgaz-2008",
   "name": "Kumburgaz videos (Yalçın Yalman)",
   "kind": "video",
   "date": "2008-05",
   "year": 2008,
   "lat": 41.0,
   "lon": 28.2,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Kumburgaz, Büyükçekmece, Istanbul Province, Turkey",
   "coord_source": "Kumburgaz (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Yalçın Yalman, a night guard at a seaside compound, with a handheld camcorder",
   "side": "civilian",
   "released": "2008–2009",
   "released_by": "Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center (Haktan Akdoğan), Istanbul",
   "official_status": "No Turkish or other government body has issued a finding; the promoting organization cited an analysis by a Turkish scientific council that it said found the footage genuine, and skeptics identify the object as the lit deck of a cruise ship.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "Night-time camcorder recordings made over the Sea of Marmara from Kumburgaz between 2007 and 2009, said by their promoters to show a structured object and, in zoomed frames, occupants. The material was publicized by a private Turkish research center. Skeptical analysts match the shape to passing cruise ships. The corpus does not discuss this footage.",
   "band": "thin",
   "crafts": [],
   "events": [],
   "people": [],
   "sites": [],
   "documents": [],
   "graph_ids": [],
   "sources": [
    {
     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Kumburgaz UFO videos",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumburgaz_UFO_videos",
     "publisher": "Wikipedia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "aguadilla-2013",
   "name": "Aguadilla CBP infrared video",
   "kind": "infrared-video",
   "date": "2013-04-25",
   "year": 2013,
   "lat": 18.495,
   "lon": -67.1294,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico",
   "coord_source": "Rafael Hernández Airport (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Thermal sensor of a US Customs and Border Protection DHC-8 aircraft",
   "side": "US Customs and Border Protection",
   "released": "2015-08",
   "released_by": "Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), from a source inside CBP; never formally released by DHS",
   "official_status": "No US agency has issued a finding; the Department of Homeland Security has not formally released or commented on the recording, and the SCU report calls the object unidentified.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "A thermal video recorded by a Customs and Border Protection aircraft near Aguadilla airport on the night of 25 April 2013, showing a small object moving over land and into the sea. Published in 2015 by a civilian research group after a leak. The corpus mentions it in the Mick West debate as the next case on the list.",
   "band": "contested",
   "crafts": [],
   "events": [],
   "people": [
    "mick-west"
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     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "2:52:13",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
     "speaker_slug": "jesse-michels",
     "quote": "Aguadilla. Auadila. So, this is off the coast of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. Okay."
    },
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     "kind": "external",
     "title": "2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP (SCU case report)",
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     "publisher": "Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies",
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  {
   "slug": "chilean-navy-2014",
   "name": "Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video",
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   "date": "2014-11-11",
   "year": 2014,
   "lat": -33.3,
   "lon": -71.9,
   "precision": "region",
   "region": "Pacific coast of Chile between Valparaíso and San Antonio",
   "coord_source": "Flight track reported by CEFAA (approximate)",
   "shot_by": "FLIR operator aboard a Chilean Navy Airbus AS532 Cougar helicopter",
   "side": "Chilean Navy",
   "released": "2017-01-05",
   "released_by": "CEFAA (Chile) via Leslie Kean, Huffington Post",
   "official_status": "Chile's CEFAA released the nine-minute video in January 2017 saying its analysts could not identify the object; independent analysts later matched it to Iberia flight IB6830 climbing out of Santiago.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "A nine-minute infrared recording made from a Chilean Navy helicopter on 11 November 2014, released by the Chilean government agency CEFAA in 2017 as unexplained after a two-year review. Mick West and other analysts say it was a distant airliner departing Santiago, and in the corpus he describes it as the case that started his UFO video work.",
   "band": "contested",
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   "events": [],
   "people": [
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     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:05:54",
     "speaker": "Mick West",
     "speaker_slug": "mick-west",
     "quote": "it really kind of took off in I think it was 2016 or perhaps the start of 2017 with this this case from from Chile Chilean Navy uh video and this is uh a video looks"
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    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:06:24",
     "speaker": "Mick West",
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     "quote": "It was released by Alyssa Keane, who you mentioned, uh, in the Huffington Post in 2016 or 2017, and she was very affusive about how amazing it was. And me and a few other people looked into it, and we very quickly determined that she was wrong about that. It wasn't that amazing. And uh, it was"
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     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Groundbreaking UFO Video Just Released By Chilean Navy",
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     "publisher": "HuffPost (Leslie Kean)",
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   ]
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   "slug": "gimbal",
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   "lat": 30.3,
   "lon": -77.0,
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   "region": "Atlantic Ocean off the Florida/Georgia coast (Jacksonville operating area)",
   "coord_source": "USS Theodore Roosevelt work-up area off Jacksonville (approximate sea area)",
   "shot_by": "ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F from USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier air wing",
   "side": "US Navy",
   "released": "2017-12-16",
   "released_by": "To The Stars Academy / New York Times; DoD formal release 2020-04-27",
   "official_status": "The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'.",
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   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gimbal_The_First_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release.webm?width=800",
   "summary": "An ATFLIR clip from an F/A-18F off the US east coast in January 2015 showing an object that appears to rotate as the camera tracks it, with crew audio. Released with the 2017 New York Times report and formally by the Pentagon in 2020. Skeptics attribute the rotation to a glare artifact of the sensor gimbal.",
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     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
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     "quote": "the gimbal and goast videos which were taken at the USS Ros Roosevelt 300 miles off the coast of Jacksonville. Um"
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    {
     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "1:41:12",
     "quote": "that's what's why it's called the gimbal, right? You see it sort of rotating in this interesting way. look, go f look go who named go fast. Clearly the name wasn't correct, right? The air crew didn't name it. Some"
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     "quote": "the three videos you know whether it's go fast or or gimbal or nimit all these videos are not high quality they're not high resolution they're nowhere near what they there it's only one sensor and"
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     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos",
     "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/",
     "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense",
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   ]
  },
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   "slug": "gofast",
   "name": "GOFAST (Roosevelt ATFLIR video)",
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   "date": "2015-01-21",
   "year": 2015,
   "lat": 30.3,
   "lon": -77.0,
   "precision": "region",
   "region": "Atlantic Ocean off the Florida/Georgia coast (Jacksonville operating area)",
   "coord_source": "USS Theodore Roosevelt work-up area off Jacksonville (approximate sea area)",
   "shot_by": "ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F from USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier air wing",
   "side": "US Navy",
   "released": "2018-03-09",
   "released_by": "To The Stars Academy; DoD formal release 2020-04-27",
   "official_status": "The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'.",
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   "still_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Go_Fast_Official_USG_Footage_of_UAP_for_Public_Release.webm?width=800",
   "summary": "An ATFLIR clip released in March 2018 showing a small object apparently skimming low over the sea, with the aircrew heard reacting when the sensor locks on. The Pentagon released it formally in 2020. Analysts using the on-screen range and angle data argue the object was slow-moving and high, with the speed an illusion of parallax.",
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     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "1:20:32",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
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     "quote": "you have audio associated with the video and the guy goes, \"Whoa, got it.\" And I just interviewed Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves who testified before Congress also under oath and he kind of admitted"
    },
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     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "0:06:56",
     "speaker": "Mick West",
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     "quote": "Go Fast was released a little later. And yeah, when I when I first looked at them, when I looked at the FL one video,"
    },
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     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1iaH1a3A4Lk",
     "ts": "1:17:26",
     "speaker": "Mick West",
     "speaker_slug": "mick-west",
     "quote": "I don't rule out these these options, but I think you should also rule out a plane. Okay, let's get into uh the Go Fast video which was"
    },
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     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos",
     "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/",
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   "slug": "jellyfish-uap-2017",
   "name": "\"Jellyfish\" UAP thermal video (Iraq)",
   "kind": "infrared-video",
   "date": "2017–2018",
   "year": 2017,
   "lat": 33.3,
   "lon": 44.3,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "US joint operations base, Iraq (location withheld)",
   "coord_source": "Approximate; the releasing journalist withheld the base location",
   "shot_by": "Military thermal camera at a US base in Iraq (operator unnamed)",
   "side": "US military (leaked)",
   "released": "2024-01-09",
   "released_by": "Jeremy Corbell (Weaponized podcast)",
   "official_status": "The Department of Defense has not commented on the recording; the House Oversight members who saw it did not identify it, and analysts have proposed a smeared thermal image of a balloon cluster or drones.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "A thermal video published by journalist Jeremy Corbell in January 2024, said to be recorded at a US base in Iraq in 2017 or 2018, showing a dark object with hanging appendages drifting over the base and later over water. The corpus records a guest saying it was debunked and a skeptic proposing coordinated drones.",
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    },
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     "kind": "external",
     "title": "Jeremy Corbell releases \"jellyfish\" UAP video",
     "url": "https://www.jeremycorbell.com/",
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     "date": "2024-01-09"
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   "slug": "skinwalker-ranch-footage",
   "name": "Skinwalker Ranch surveillance and television footage",
   "kind": "video",
   "date": "2020–",
   "year": 2020,
   "lat": 40.2586,
   "lon": -109.8868,
   "precision": "approximate",
   "region": "Skinwalker Ranch, Uintah Basin, Utah",
   "coord_source": "Skinwalker Ranch (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "Ranch security cameras and the production crew of \"The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch\" (Prometheus Entertainment), with owner Brandon Fugal",
   "side": "civilian / commercial television",
   "released": "2020-03-31",
   "released_by": "History Channel (A+E Networks) series; earlier NIDS footage was never released",
   "official_status": "No government body has commented on the ranch footage; the earlier Defense Intelligence Agency-funded AAWSAP contract with Bigelow Aerospace studied the property from 2008, and its recordings have not been made public.",
   "public_domain": false,
   "summary": "Camera recordings of lights, radar tracks and instrument anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch, broadcast in a television series since 2020. In the corpus the owner Brandon Fugal calls himself an experiencer rather than a believer, and the host recounts how a $22 million Defense Intelligence Agency contract to Bigelow Aerospace funded earlier study of the ranch.",
   "band": "thin",
   "crafts": [
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   "events": [
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    },
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     "kind": "corpus",
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     "ts": "0:50:52",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
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     "quote": "provided a $22 million contract to Bigalow Aerospace to basically study UFOs and paranormal phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch but as we've heard from UFO whistleblower David grush the original"
    },
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     "kind": "corpus",
     "video": "1f16VvXaSSE",
     "ts": "0:52:27",
     "speaker": "Jesse Michels",
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     "quote": "the program was not initially just set up to study orbs cattle mutilations and electromagnetic anomalies on Skinwalker Ranch that's what it got turned into"
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     "title": "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch",
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   "date": "2023-07-26",
   "year": 2023,
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   "precision": "exact",
   "region": "Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC",
   "coord_source": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs",
   "side": "US Congress",
   "released": "2023-07-26",
   "released_by": "House Oversight Committee (official webcast) and C-SPAN",
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   "summary": "The recorded open session of 26 July 2023 in which former intelligence officer David Grusch, Cdr David Fravor and Lt Ryan Graves testified under oath. Grusch said he had been told of a multi-decade crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program; Fravor and Graves described their encounters. The corpus returns to this recording repeatedly.",
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     "video": "1f16VvXaSSE",
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     "title": "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (hearing page)",
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   "slug": "house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13",
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   "lon": -77.0091,
   "precision": "exact",
   "region": "Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC",
   "coord_source": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)",
   "shot_by": "House Oversight subcommittees on Cybersecurity, IT and Government Innovation and on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs",
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   "summary": "The recorded hearing of 13 November 2024 at which Luis Elizondo, Rear Adm (ret.) Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold and journalist Michael Shellenberger testified. Shellenberger entered a whistleblower account of a program called Immaculate Constellation; Elizondo, asked whether he had been read into it, answered that he could neither confirm nor deny. The corpus covers it the next day.",
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