VISUAL RESEARCH / METHOD
Know what you’re looking at.
A useful atlas makes the origin of an image as visible as the image itself.
Four separate kinds of material
Source recording: a film, photograph or sensor record with an identified release. Authenticity of a recording does not establish the object's identity or origin.
Witness drawing: an image made by, or with, a person describing an experience. It documents their description.
Context image: a photograph of a location, an exhibit, or a historical artwork. It helps orient the reader; it does not document the reported event.
AI-generated illustration: a visual interpretation of published descriptions. It is not evidence and is labelled wherever it appears.
Open-minded, source-specific
Evidence bands belong to individual reports and claims. They are not a numerical probability of extraterrestrial origin. Follow the original source, compare accounts and ask what additional observation would distinguish competing explanations.
Reuse and credit
Source media retain their own rights. A data export licence does not relicense photographs, video, interview thumbnails, or third-party writing. Unclear-rights archives are linked, not copied. Official players load only when you open a video.
The globe
Earth imagery: Blue Marble Next Generation, NASA Earth Observatory / Reto Stöckli. The satellite mosaic is geographic context, not imagery of the incidents. Exact, approximate and regional locations retain their precision labels; a globe marker is not a claim of survey accuracy.