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      "summary": "Repost caption proposes Pleiadian, extraterrestrial, Atlantean and inner-Earth explanations as possibilities. The woman herself does not identify the occupants’ origin. Public FXTwitter supplied metadata; local ASR and three inspected frames document the clip.",
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      "summary": "Judith is described as receiving the messages through real-time telepathy, distinguished by the publisher from channeling. This establishes the publisher’s stated method, not independent verification of the information.",
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      "summary": "This source describes an Elohim / dimensional-origin cosmology and a Pleiadian civilization; its appearance catalog is not limited to blond people. These are the publisher’s claims, not independently established anthropology.",
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      "summary": "Kab does not treat Nordic as the name of a separate race. His explanation of human appearance belongs to his spiritual narrative, not established human origins.",
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      "summary": "Places Valiant Thor among the Benoks of Venus. Their leaders are called Galactic Commanders but explicitly are not members of the Galactic Federation. The described craft is large, can be invisible or transparent, and is smaller than a mothership.",
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      "summary": "Names Ikai as leader of the Earth ascension mission, with several source-specific civilizations and commanders. This is a claimed organization, not independently authenticated membership.",
      "date": "2023-12-24",
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      "summary": "Lists claimed sites including Sedona, Greenland, Antarctica, the Moon and Mars. The map should identify them as this publisher’s alleged locations. Its use of a CIA training record does not establish that the CIA verified a base.",
      "date": "2024-01-30",
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      "summary": "Assigns Pleiadian and other identities to luminous objects in rehosted footage. A recorded light and the claimed identity of that light are separate propositions. Individual clips still require original-witness and sensor checks.",
      "date": "2022-01-09",
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      "title": "The Truth About Triangle Crafts",
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      "kind": "Source-specific craft taxonomy",
      "summary": "Within this account, triangular craft are generally assigned to Arcturian explorers, while Pleiadian designs are described as more rounded. This is not a universal or independently validated craft taxonomy.",
      "date": "2022-06-04",
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      "title": "Traveling With Pleiadians",
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      "summary": "Judith introduces the accounts as waking dreams and visions. Forms include an expansive saucer, a clear bubble-like craft and a stretched-kite vessel. These are not documented transport journeys.",
      "date": "2021-12-31",
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      "kind": "Attributed spiritual narrative",
      "summary": "Describes Nordic-looking Pachi humans in crystal cities and claims entrances in several countries. Their limited personal craft are distinguished from Pleiadian technology; no independently verified entrance is established.",
      "date": "2024-03-04",
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      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
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      "kind": "Encounter plus later interpretation",
      "summary": "Describes a 2016 restaurant meeting with a blond man. The name and Pleiadian identity are supplied later through the claimed telepathic source, not established by the initial encounter.",
      "date": "2024-10-01",
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      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
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      "url": "https://familyoftaygeta.com/ashtar/",
      "kind": "Attributed spiritual narrative",
      "summary": "This account locates Ashtar in the Sirius tradition, not the Pleiadian one. Its association with a 1977 television interruption is an interpretation of the interruption’s speaker.",
      "date": "2024-01-12",
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      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
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      "title": "What Is the Shift?",
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      "kind": "Prediction / spiritual narrative",
      "summary": "Describes a promised transition to a parallel Earth called Sheen. This is a prospective spiritual claim, not a documented completed event.",
      "date": "2021-12-31",
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      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
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      "kind": "Explicitly AI-generated illustrations",
      "summary": "The author identifies the attached beings as AI representations. These can document how the author visualizes the narrative, not what a camera recorded.",
      "date": "2024-11-04",
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      "url": "https://x.com/Kabamur/status/1895286067961700638",
      "kind": "Explicitly AI-generated illustrations",
      "summary": "The author again labels the catalog AI representations. The stated 85% refers to his described catalog’s coverage, not a measured extraterrestrial population.",
      "date": "2025-02-28",
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      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvVv4kpPUnY",
      "kind": "Recorded claimant interview",
      "summary": "Hall distinguishes Greys, Norwegians and Tall Whites in the interview. The inspected frame shows Hall and Marie on television, not an extraterrestrial. The native upload date differs from a date quoted by his website.",
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        "views": 80334,
        "duration": 349,
        "originalTitle": "Dr Charles Hall on Sunrise - Contact with tall white ET's",
        "channel": "jsodic21",
        "dateType": "upload",
        "metricsCapturedUTC": "2026-09-05",
        "playbackVerified": true
      },
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "thor-video",
      "title": "Frank Stranges · Valiant Thor",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tytnOJSNrqE",
      "kind": "Recorded claimant interview",
      "summary": "Stranges gives the Venus, Pentagon and presidential-meeting narrative. The clip’s claimed-Thor portrait is an illustrative identification; no authenticated ET photograph or original interview date was established.",
      "date": "2009-08-16",
      "media": {
        "youtube": "tytnOJSNrqE",
        "start": 16,
        "views": 206989,
        "duration": 82,
        "originalTitle": "Valiant Thor - The Stranger at the Pentagon by Rev. Frank E. Stranges",
        "channel": "TheInveritas",
        "dateType": "upload",
        "metricsCapturedUTC": "2026-09-05",
        "playbackVerified": true
      },
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "roestenburg-archive",
      "title": "Jessie Roestenburg · contemporary clippings",
      "url": "https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2020/04/jessie-roestenburgs-1954-ufo-encounter.html",
      "kind": "Archive with period newspaper scans",
      "summary": "The archival reconstruction reproduces a 22 October 1954 newspaper report, implying an encounter on the previous day. A later October 25 date conflicts. Its illustrated clipping is a witness sketch and family photograph, not a photograph of occupants.",
      "date": "2020-04",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski-books",
      "title": "George Adamski Foundation · publications",
      "url": "https://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/GAFMtl.htm",
      "kind": "Legacy publisher / primary works",
      "summary": "Lists authorized editions of Adamski’s original books and lecture recordings. The account of the 1952 encounter appeared in 1953; the named-visitor narrative followed in 1955.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski-photos",
      "title": "Adamski Foundation · scout photograph archive",
      "url": "https://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/GAFPhoto.htm",
      "kind": "Claimed craft photograph archive",
      "summary": "The foundation dates the famous scout image to 13 December 1952 at Palomar Gardens. That is not a photograph of the November desert encounter. Copyright is asserted; open reuse permission was not found.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski-description",
      "title": "Adamski’s appearance description · quoted from original",
      "url": "https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-youthful-space-people.html",
      "kind": "Archivist quoting a primary book",
      "summary": "The quoted original description gives approximately 5′6″ height, sandy shoulder-length hair and grey-green eyes. It is more specific than a generic tall-blond stock image.",
      "date": "2019-11",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "menger-1959",
      "title": "Howard Menger · From Outer Space to You",
      "url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6272590M/From_outer_space_to_you.?show_page_status=1",
      "kind": "Book record",
      "summary": "Bibliographic record for the 1959 contactee narrative; a catalog record establishes publication, not the reported contacts.",
      "date": "1959",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "menger-text",
      "title": "Menger’s 1959 account · public transcription",
      "url": "https://www.universe-people.com/english/svetelna_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_from_outer_space_to_you.htm",
      "kind": "Reproduction of claimant’s book",
      "summary": "A late-August 1956 episode describes a translucent cup/saucer-like craft and a tall blond man in white with a light-blue cape. Reproduction authorization is unverified; linked, not republished.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "menger-revision",
      "title": "Howard Menger · 1978 interview revision",
      "url": "https://ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2017/03/howard-menger-interview-1978.html",
      "kind": "Recorded-interview transcript excerpt",
      "summary": "An archivist quotes the Good/Zinsstag interview of 27–28 October 1978. Menger reconsiders his earlier Venus interpretation: coming from a place need not establish a being’s origin.",
      "date": "2017-03",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "meier-001",
      "title": "Billy Meier · Contact Report 001",
      "url": "https://futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Contact_Report_001",
      "kind": "Reconstructed contact dialogue",
      "summary": "Dates the first Semjase meeting to 28 January 1975. Presented as remembered/reproduced dialogue, not an audio transcript; English translation warns of possible errors. The early Pleiades wording must remain distinct from later Plejaren terminology.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "meier-semjase",
      "title": "Semjase · advocate archive profile",
      "url": "https://futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Semjase",
      "kind": "Contactee profile",
      "summary": "Describes Semjase as 1.7 metres tall, slender, light-blond-haired and blue-eyed. This documents the tradition’s depiction, not an independently observed individual.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "meier-photos",
      "title": "Asket and Nera · photograph provenance",
      "url": "https://futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Asket_and_Nera_Photos",
      "kind": "Advocate archive acknowledgement",
      "summary": "The archive identifies the circulated Asket/Nera images as American performers, then proposes a substitution explanation not independently established here. They must not appear as authenticated ET portraits.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "meier-1989",
      "title": "Billy Meier · 1989 interview, later upload",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1NWPoWx-o",
      "kind": "Recorded claimant interview",
      "summary": "Video identified by the advocate directory as the Randolph Winters interview. No captions available; a viewer’s 51-minute topic label was not treated as a verified spoken passage. The inspected frame shows Meier at a table.",
      "date": "2011-06-04",
      "media": {
        "youtube": "jT1NWPoWx-o",
        "start": 0,
        "views": 112703,
        "duration": 4342,
        "originalTitle": "Eduard Billy Meier - Interview",
        "channel": "TheHallOfRecords",
        "dateType": "upload",
        "metricsCapturedUTC": "2026-09-05",
        "playbackVerified": true
      },
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "meier-2011",
      "title": "Billy Meier · 2011 interview",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TH7iWp8D4",
      "kind": "Recorded claimant interview",
      "summary": "Playback verified. Automatic transcript quality was poor and did not reliably align with hardcoded English subtitles at the inspected frame; no claims quoted from that ASR.",
      "date": "2011-10-05",
      "media": {
        "youtube": "T-TH7iWp8D4",
        "start": 0,
        "views": 165645,
        "duration": 2369,
        "originalTitle": "Billy Meier Interview - 2011",
        "channel": "Canal de Rhal Zahi",
        "dateType": "upload",
        "metricsCapturedUTC": "2026-09-05",
        "playbackVerified": true
      },
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "thor-written",
      "title": "Frank Stranges · written Thor account",
      "url": "https://www.nextagemission.com/ST/ST_AboutValiantThor1.html",
      "kind": "First-person claimant article",
      "summary": "Describes brown hair and eyes, a Venusian visitor and Victor Class craft. Connects the circulated Thor/Donn/Jill photographs to a gathering at Howard Menger’s home: a shared source network, not independent confirmation.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "thor-mirdad",
      "title": "Michael Mirdad · meeting Thor, part two",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njGtpAD0uQY",
      "kind": "Later personal recollection",
      "summary": "Mirdad recounts his own alleged meeting. It does not independently authenticate the older governmental story. The creator supplies a timestamped transcript on his website.",
      "date": "2019-01-23",
      "media": {
        "youtube": "njGtpAD0uQY",
        "start": 137,
        "views": 18623,
        "duration": 1358,
        "originalTitle": "Meeting Frank Stranges and Valiant Thor: Part 2",
        "channel": "Michael Mirdad",
        "dateType": "upload",
        "metricsCapturedUTC": "2026-09-05",
        "playbackVerified": true
      },
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "omnec",
      "title": "Omnec Onec · official site",
      "url": "https://www.omnec-onec.com/",
      "kind": "Autobiographical spiritual claim",
      "summary": "The autobiography claims origin on an astral level of Venus and physical arrival as a child in 1955. This differs from ordinary physical-surface Venus habitation.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "omnec-orthon",
      "title": "Omnec’s circle · Venusian script",
      "url": "https://omnec-onec.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/%C2%B0Venusian-Script.pdf",
      "kind": "Official-circle account",
      "summary": "Identifies Orthon as Omnec’s uncle within the narrative. This links the traditions; it does not verify genealogy.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "omnec-video",
      "title": "Omnec Onec · Kaphof interview",
      "url": "https://www.omnec-onec.com/kaphof-manor-interview/",
      "kind": "Interview landing page",
      "summary": "Recording provenance is described, but current direct playback was not verified. The page names Patricia Müller as copyright holder; free viewing is not a production reuse license.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "delicado",
      "title": "Miriam Delicado · Project Camelot transcript",
      "url": "https://projectcamelot.org/lang/en/miriam_delicado_interview_transcript_en.html",
      "kind": "First-person interview transcript",
      "summary": "The 2008 interview recounts a 1988 British Columbia road encounter, tall white/blond-haired figures, blue eyes and missing time. She describes conscious recall, not hypnosis recovery. No Pleiades origin was established in the inspected passage.",
      "date": "2008-09",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "delicado-video",
      "title": "Delicado · original interview landing page",
      "url": "https://projectcamelot.org/miriam_delicado.html",
      "kind": "Video unavailable / transcript survives",
      "summary": "The original linked YouTube upload is unavailable because the account was terminated. Use the surviving interview transcript; do not display a functioning-playback claim.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "cia-mars",
      "title": "Mars Exploration · released session transcript",
      "url": "https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf",
      "kind": "Released-document mirror",
      "summary": "The May 22, 1984 remote-viewing session describes tall, thin people. It does not identify them as Nordic, blond or blue-eyed, or name Earth as the destination. The current CIA document URL redirects; this is a mirror of the released scan. A session record is not validation of its perceptions.",
      "date": "1984-05-22",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski-setting",
      "title": "Adamski Foundation · Desert Center context",
      "url": "https://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/AboutGA.htm",
      "kind": "Legacy foundation account",
      "summary": "Places the November 1952 narrative in the Desert Center / Salton Sea regional context. Its argument connecting a pilot report to Adamski’s encounter remains the foundation’s interpretation, not independent confirmation of occupants.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "hall-directory",
      "title": "Charles Hall · media directory",
      "url": "https://www.millennialhospitality.com/radio.php",
      "kind": "Author’s directory",
      "summary": "Source for the author-site interview listing. Its date differs from the verified native YouTube upload date; the two dates are not silently reconciled.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "mirdad-transcript",
      "title": "Michael Mirdad · creator’s transcript",
      "url": "https://michaelmirdad.com/video/meeting-frank-stranges-and-valiant-thor-part-2/",
      "kind": "Creator’s timestamped transcript",
      "summary": "Transcript of Mirdad’s retrospective claimed meeting. It is not a contemporary record of Stranges’s alleged Pentagon events.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "roestenburg-fsn",
      "title": "Flying Saucer News · Winter 1954/55, pp. 8–9",
      "url": "https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20%28BFSB%29/Flying%20Saucer%20News%20-%20No%2007%20-%201954-55%20Winter.pdf",
      "kind": "Period investigator report and diagram",
      "summary": "Gavin Gibbons's near-period account dates the event 21 October 1954. Its sequence differs from the later television interview. The diagram is an interpretation of reported dimensions, not a surveyed craft.",
      "date": "1954–1955",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "hall-harris",
      "title": "Charles Hall · Paola Harris interview, question 9",
      "url": "https://paolaharris.com/paola-harris-interviews/interview-of-the-month-insider-charles-hall-and-the-tall-whites",
      "kind": "Claimant's first-person interview",
      "summary": "Hall places his Norwegian encounters in Cambridge and Madison, Wisconsin, in 1961–63. These must not inherit the Nevada location or craft of his separate Tall White stories.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski-book",
      "title": "Adamski · Flying Saucers Have Landed, reproduced text",
      "url": "https://www.galactic.to/389/adamskibok1.htm",
      "kind": "Primary narrative in a later web reproduction",
      "summary": "The encounter passage supplies the visitor's appearance and one-piece brown clothing. A reproduced book is a source for what Adamski wrote, not independent confirmation of the encounter.",
      "date": "1953 book",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "friedman-original",
      "title": "Brent Friedman · original AA encounter passage",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUBSuPh1pM&t=8436",
      "kind": "Recorded first-person recollection",
      "summary": "Use the original episode from 2:20:36. The encounter is on a wooded property; the preceding bedroom-woman story and subsequent compound lore are different accounts. External podcast transcript timestamps are approximately a minute later.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "ft1977",
      "title": "Fortean Times 24 · Winter 1977, p. 50",
      "url": "https://archive.org/details/ft1977no24",
      "kind": "Contemporary print account, OCR checked",
      "summary": "Reports the November 26 television audio intrusion and Southern TV's hoax announcements. Its short rendering uses Asteron / Intergalactic Mission rather than the later common Vrillon / Ashtar wording. OCR and original audio are different evidence layers.",
      "date": "1977",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "ofcom-2026",
      "title": "Ofcom · Southern television tape FOI response",
      "url": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/about-ofcom/foi/2026/may/a-southern-television-interruption-tape.pdf?v=417894",
      "kind": "Official archival-routing response",
      "summary": "On 11 May 2026 Ofcom said it did not hold the requested information and directed the requester to Bournemouth University, recipient of inherited ITA/IBA material. The alien identification is in the quoted request, not authenticated by Ofcom.",
      "date": "2026-05-11",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "ashtar-vantassel",
      "title": "Van Tassel · I Rode a Flying Saucer",
      "url": "https://archive.org/details/1952-i-rode-a-flying-saucer-by-george-w.-van-tassel",
      "kind": "Scanned contactee book",
      "summary": "The revised edition prints an Ashtar communication under July 18, 1952. This is an earlier textual Ashtar tradition, not evidence that its author or claimed sender caused the 1977 intrusion. The edition's additions need bibliographic care.",
      "date": "1952 copyright; revised edition",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "hyperborea-diodorus",
      "title": "Diodorus Siculus · Library of History 2.47",
      "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/2B%2A.html",
      "kind": "Ancient literary tradition, translated primary text",
      "summary": "The northern-island / Apollo tradition is an ancient literary account. It is not an archaeological identification of a Nordic extraterrestrial homeland.",
      "date": "First century BCE text",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "hyperborea-blavatsky",
      "title": "Blavatsky · The Secret Doctrine II, p. 7",
      "url": "https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd2-0-pn.htm",
      "kind": "Nineteenth-century occult cosmology",
      "summary": "Recasts Hyperborea as a second continent extending from the North Pole toward northern Asia. Its root-race scheme is the author's occult doctrine, not established biological or geological history.",
      "date": "1888",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "hyperborea-figu",
      "title": "FIGU Italia · Ashtar Sheran",
      "url": "https://it.figu.org/ufologia/ashtar-sheran",
      "kind": "Modern source-specific contact cosmology",
      "summary": "Places its Hyperborea near the present Florida region through an alleged axial shift and gives Ashtar an adversarial role and death in 1983. These claims conflict with Taygeta's living benevolent leader and are not independent corroboration.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "walton-human",
      "title": "Travis Walton · Human?",
      "url": "https://www.travis-walton.com/human.html",
      "kind": "Author's first-person book excerpt",
      "summary": "A human-looking attendant is described as about 6′2″, muscular, helmeted and wearing a blue suit; later other human-looking attendants appear. The selected text does not establish Nordic or Pleiadian identity. The accompanying art is illustration, not encounter photography.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "schmidt-primary",
      "title": "Reinhold Schmidt · reproduced account",
      "url": "https://www.galactic.to/ru/reinhold.html",
      "kind": "First-person narrative in a later reproduction",
      "summary": "Describes six human-looking occupants with dark hair; men about 5′8″ and German spoken. A later Nordic label must not overwrite these appearance details.",
      "date": "1957 event claimed; later publication",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "friendship-breccia",
      "title": "Stefano Breccia · Amicizia, JAR 8",
      "url": "https://jar.exopaedia.org/JAR_issue_8.pdf",
      "kind": "Signed contact-network article",
      "summary": "The October 2009 article distinguishes the author's experiences from reports he was told, including extreme heights. Its underground-base and human-looking-visitor claims remain attributed to this network.",
      "date": "2009-10",
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    },
    {
      "id": "klarer-publisher",
      "title": "Beyond the Light Barrier · publisher description",
      "url": "https://www.lighttechnology.com/store/books/beyond-light-barrier-autobiography-elizabeth-klarer",
      "kind": "Publisher's account of an autobiography",
      "summary": "A further South African contactee source family involving Akon and Meton. This pass establishes a publication lead, not source-verified facial details or a completed case reconstruction.",
      "date": null,
      "media": null,
      "accessed": "2026-09-05"
    }
  ],
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "roestenberg",
      "tag": "01 / A WITNESS, BEFORE A LABEL",
      "name": "The Staffordshire encounter",
      "person": "Jessie Roestenburg",
      "when": "21 October 1954 in period report · later interview",
      "origin": "Unspecified by the witness",
      "appearance": "Occupants' height not stated; they are seen seated. Long golden pageboy-style hair. Pale-blue ski-type clothing; a transparent head-covering comparison, with exact geometry unresolved.",
      "craft": "A bright silver, domed, Mexican-hat-like object; tilted so she could see the pair side by side.",
      "place": "Ranton, Staffordshire, England",
      "placeType": "Reported encounter location",
      "geo": [
        52.82,
        -2.24
      ],
      "sources": [
        "crowder",
        "roestenburg-fsn",
        "roestenburg-archive",
        "bbc"
      ],
      "kind": "First-person account",
      "question": "Who first added the word Pleiadian to this story? It is not an identification she makes in the supplied interview.",
      "body": "The early investigator account and later filmed recollection differ in the sequence. Read both versions below rather than merging them into one exact reconstruction.",
      "next": "Locate separately recorded statements from the children and the original uncut broadcast; compare against the period report.",
      "image": "v3/roestenburg-garden.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v3/roestenburg-garden.webp",
        "label": "Interview-based scene",
        "title": "The boys in the front garden",
        "alt": "A painted mother emerging from her own rural cottage, two sons prone in the garden, with part of a silver object above the roof",
        "basis": "The supplied interview at 00:42–00:54 places the boys outside on the ground when she emerges. This is the initial garden phase, not the later shelter beneath a kitchen table.",
        "assumptions": "Architecture, clothes, faces, ages and lighting are illustrative. The overhead object is a contextual reconstruction, not a measured scene. The occupant study shows a later viewing phase separately.",
        "source": "crowder",
        "related_source": "roestenburg-fsn",
        "short": "1954 · Staffordshire",
        "details": [
          {
            "image": "v3/roestenburg-occupants.webp",
            "title": "Two occupants, side by side",
            "alt": "Two long-golden-haired human-looking figures in pale-blue high-neck clothing behind a shared canopy, with delicate transparent head-covering outlines",
            "basis": "The later viewing passage describes two occupants together, golden pageboy hair, pale-blue clothing and transparent head coverings.",
            "assumptions": "Exact faces, sex, garment seams, canopy framing and helmet geometry are unknown. Fine transparent outlines are illustrative, not an engineering reconstruction."
          }
        ]
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "1977-listed interview as preserved in the supplied 6:05 clip; compared with the 1954/55 investigator report",
        "classification": "Reported close encounter with occupants · CEIII-type description, not a finding of authenticity",
        "sources": [
          "crowder",
          "roestenburg-fsn",
          "roestenburg-archive",
          "bbc"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Period press / investigator material and a later first-person filmed interview survive.",
          "corroboration": "One accessible firsthand witness voice reviewed: Jessie. The boys' remarks are investigator- or mother-mediated; separately elicited statements were not located.",
          "limit": "Several records of one family's story are not several independent confirmations. No event photograph, physical sample or instrumental record was established here."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Occupants' height not stated; they are seen seated.",
          "hair": "Long golden pageboy-style hair.",
          "clothing": "Pale-blue ski-type clothing; a transparent head-covering comparison, with exact geometry unresolved."
        },
        "sequence": [
          {
            "at": "00:42–00:54",
            "start": 42,
            "title": "The front garden",
            "body": "She comes outside and sees her two sons lying flat on the ground, looking up. This is not the later kitchen-table scene."
          },
          {
            "at": "01:00–01:39",
            "start": 60,
            "title": "Beside her cottage",
            "body": "She moves toward the side water pump. A silver domed object is tilted toward her above the roof; two occupants sit side by side."
          },
          {
            "at": "01:47–03:23",
            "start": 107,
            "title": "The occupants and the fear",
            "body": "Golden pageboy hair, pale-blue clothing and a transparent cockpit. She describes being unable to move through fear."
          },
          {
            "at": "03:23–04:36",
            "start": 203,
            "title": "Departure in two stages",
            "body": "She looks toward the boys, then finds the object gone. Later it is visible farther away; she describes three circuits and departure."
          },
          {
            "at": "05:25–05:35",
            "start": 325,
            "title": "After the sighting",
            "body": "Her husband returns to find the family locked indoors, sheltered under the kitchen table."
          }
        ],
        "variants": [
          {
            "field": "Starting positions",
            "early": "Gibbons: mother and three children initially inside; all go out.",
            "late": "Interview: two boys already prone in the front garden when she comes out."
          },
          {
            "field": "Departure",
            "early": "Gibbons: witnessed angled ascent and 1½ circuits.",
            "late": "Interview: initial departure missed while looking down; three later circuits."
          },
          {
            "field": "Scale",
            "early": "The period diagram gives estimated dimensions, not measurements.",
            "late": "Roof and chimneys obscured from her viewpoint; no height supplied. Apparent roof occlusion is not a measured footprint."
          }
        ],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Own rural cottage and outside garden",
            "Exactly two sons for the interview's garden phase",
            "Two occupants side by side",
            "Long golden hair; pale-blue clothing"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Neighbourhood street or neighbouring roof presented as sourced",
            "Children under a table while viewing the craft",
            "Short hair or giant engineered aquarium helmets",
            "A home star or species assigned by the witness"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact faces and architecture",
            "Precise helmet construction",
            "Absolute height and craft dimensions in the interview"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the generic countryside scene with a garden-phase reconstruction and a separate occupant study. Do not merge the period and late sequences."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "hall",
      "tag": "02 / A DISTINCTION THAT MATTERS",
      "name": "Norwegians ≠ Tall Whites",
      "person": "Charles Hall",
      "when": "Wisconsin claims, 1961–63 · later interviews",
      "origin": "Nordic/Norwegian origin not established",
      "appearance": "No fixed giant height in this selected Norwegian account. Human-passing southern-Norwegian appearance; this is Hall's comparison. No specific encounter outfit supplied by the selected passage.",
      "craft": "He assigns different approach routes and technical capabilities to the groups; the Nordic-specific passages do not give a dependable hull shape.",
      "place": "Cambridge / Madison, Wisconsin, United States",
      "placeType": "Two towns in the claimant’s interview; regional anchor, not a precise encounter site",
      "geo": [
        43.05,
        -89.2
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hall-harris",
        "hall-tv",
        "hall-directory"
      ],
      "episode": "QgxjtDS2sIQ",
      "start": 222,
      "kind": "First-person claims",
      "question": "Which observations distinguish these two groups, and which were things someone told Hall?",
      "body": "The long AA interview supplies a testable editorial distinction: the shared word “white” is not a reason to merge the records. Craft claims need to stay attached to the group Hall actually names.",
      "next": "Separate direct observations from attributed explanations; seek dated service records and independently recorded witnesses.",
      "image": "v3/hall-context.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v3/hall-context.webp",
        "label": "Context portrait",
        "title": "Hall's separate Norwegian account",
        "alt": "A painterly human-presenting adult against an abstract background, not an authenticated visitor portrait",
        "basis": "Hall's Harris interview locates his Norwegian encounters in Wisconsin. The ordinary-human appearance is his comparison; it is not his separate Nevada Tall White scene.",
        "assumptions": "Face, hair, clothing and backdrop are nonspecific artistic choices. No physical detail is presented as a way to identify actual people as nonhuman.",
        "source": "hall-harris",
        "short": "Hall · Wisconsin"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Harris interview question 9; AA distinguishes Norwegians from Tall Whites",
        "classification": "Claimant's retrospective encounters and taxonomy",
        "sources": [
          "hall-harris",
          "hall-tv"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Hall's own published interviews describe two different groups.",
          "corroboration": "No independent anatomical examination or separately recorded witness for the Norwegian identification was established here.",
          "limit": "His reported physical differences are not a diagnostic test for identifying actual people as nonhuman."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "No fixed giant height in this selected Norwegian account.",
          "hair": "Human-passing southern-Norwegian appearance; this is Hall's comparison.",
          "clothing": "No specific encounter outfit supplied by the selected passage."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "A human-passing person, as a contextual illustration"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Nevada desert presented as this Norwegian encounter",
            "Borrowed Tall White scout craft",
            "Invented giant height or visible alien anatomy"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact individual face and costume",
            "Nordic-specific craft geometry"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Move the attributed map setting to Wisconsin and replace the Nevada art with explicitly nonspecific context."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "friedman",
      "tag": "03 / AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN OPEN IDENTITY",
      "name": "The man on Orcas Island",
      "person": "Brent Friedman",
      "when": "Retold in American Alchemy · June 2026",
      "origin": "Left unresolved by the storyteller",
      "appearance": "Tall as described, but not measured. 6′4″ is Friedman's own height; 7′2″ is a hypothetical comparison he could not make. Longish blond hair; striking, Scandinavian-model-like appearance. Unusual European-looking clothing; detailed cut, colour and shoes unspecified.",
      "craft": "No craft reported in Friedman’s own encounter window. Helicopter and compound stories come from friends or locals.",
      "place": "Orcas Island, Washington",
      "placeType": "Approximate reported encounter setting",
      "geo": [
        48.65,
        -122.94
      ],
      "sources": [
        "friedman-original"
      ],
      "episode": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
      "start": 8436,
      "kind": "First-person account",
      "question": "Can the apparent greeting and the disappearance be independently checked without importing the compound stories?",
      "body": "This is one of the corpus’s clearest firsthand human-looking-visitor narratives. It remains an unidentified encounter: Friedman explicitly leaves several interpretations open.",
      "next": "Ask for the date, precise sequence, who was present, and the earliest written version. Interview friend/local sources separately.",
      "image": "v3/friedman-woodland.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v3/friedman-woodland.webp",
        "label": "Interview-based scene",
        "title": "A solitary figure below the ridge",
        "alt": "One longish-blond-haired adult farther downhill in a wooded property on Orcas Island, without buildings or bystanders",
        "basis": "Friedman describes a solitary wooded walk, a striking man about twenty feet downhill, longish blond hair and European-looking clothes. The man speaks without visible mouth movement in his account.",
        "assumptions": "Face, garment cut, footwear and exact woodland are illustrative. Perspective conveys the downhill position, not a measured height. His friend's compound and helicopter lore are not depicted.",
        "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
        "source": "friedman-original",
        "start": 8436,
        "short": "Friedman · Orcas Island"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Original AA episode, 2:20:36–2:24:17; local captions checked continuously in context",
        "classification": "Recorded first-person anomalous-person encounter; no craft in the firsthand scene",
        "sources": [
          "friedman-original"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A recorded first-person recollection with a traceable episode and time window.",
          "corroboration": "The friend is absent during the encounter. His compound, helicopter and pub stories are relayed lore, not a second observation of this meeting.",
          "limit": "No contemporaneous encounter record or independent witness statement was located in this pass. Identity remains an interpretation."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall as described, but not measured. 6′4″ is Friedman's own height; 7′2″ is a hypothetical comparison he could not make.",
          "hair": "Longish blond hair; striking, Scandinavian-model-like appearance.",
          "clothing": "Unusual European-looking clothing; detailed cut, colour and shoes unspecified."
        },
        "sequence": [
          {
            "at": "02:20:36",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8436,
            "title": "A walk alone",
            "body": "His host has gone shopping. On a fine morning Friedman walks the friend's wooded property, about twenty acres."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:21:07",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8467,
            "title": "Across the ridge",
            "body": "A solitary man is roughly twenty feet away, farther downhill. No houses, road or bystanders are described."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:21:39",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8499,
            "title": "A greeting without visible speech",
            "body": "He reports hearing his name and an instruction to leave without seeing the man's mouth move. The man does not appear threatening."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:22:10",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8530,
            "title": "What he could not estimate",
            "body": "After leaving he looks back and sees no one. Asked about height, he explains that the downhill position prevented a reliable comparison."
          }
        ],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Wooded ridge and downhill separation",
            "One encountered adult with longish blond hair",
            "Closed mouth; nonthreatening expression"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Older woman from the previous story",
            "Harbour street, houses or companions",
            "Craft, helicopter or compound in the encounter",
            "Measured 7′2″ or 2.5-metre height"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Encounter date",
            "Exact face, clothes and footwear",
            "Precisely surveyed location"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the populated residential lane with a solitary wooded-ridge encounter. Keep hearsay out of the image."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "taygeta",
      "tag": "04 / A NAMED SPIRITUAL COSMOLOGY",
      "name": "The Family of Taygeta",
      "person": "Judith / Kabamur",
      "when": "Messages and essays · ongoing",
      "origin": "Pleiades / Taygeta in this narrative",
      "appearance": "Publisher describes human-like forms; no universal 2.5-metre standard adopted. Several colours, including dark and pale hair; long hair is preferred in this cosmology. Loose or elaborate ceremonial clothing in the publisher's descriptions.",
      "craft": "Rounded ships, luminous spheres and visionary bubble/kite craft appear in different kinds of account. Recorded footage does not establish the named operator.",
      "place": "Sedona, Arizona",
      "placeType": "Publisher’s claimed base; not verified infrastructure",
      "geo": [
        34.87,
        -111.76
      ],
      "sources": [
        "fot-pleiadians",
        "fot-faq",
        "fot-fleets",
        "fot-gf",
        "fot-bases",
        "fot-travel",
        "kab-nordic"
      ],
      "kind": "Attributed telepathic narrative",
      "question": "Which statement existed before a video was published, and which identification was added afterward?",
      "body": "This is a coherent source family with its own method, vocabulary and visual catalog. Treat its messages, reported meetings, predictions and footage interpretations as different evidence types, not one undifferentiated body of proof.",
      "next": "Archive dated claims before future events; trace each video to its original witness and separate visual observations from later identity assignments.",
      "image": "v2/taygeta.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v2/taygeta.webp",
        "label": "Cosmology illustration",
        "title": "The publisher's imagined world",
        "alt": "Symbolic painting of humanlike figures with different hair colors in a luminous speculative setting",
        "basis": "Family of Taygeta describes humanlike forms with black, brown and pale hair, as well as rounded or luminous craft in different narratives.",
        "assumptions": "A symbolic editorial scene, not a witnessed meeting, a verified base or a reproduction of Kabamur's catalog. Faces, clothing, composition and setting are invented.",
        "source": "fot-pleiadians",
        "short": "Taygeta · attributed narrative"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Family of Taygeta's current authored descriptions and method statement",
        "classification": "Attributed telepathic / spiritual cosmology, not an eyewitness case file",
        "sources": [
          "fot-pleiadians",
          "fot-faq",
          "fot-fleets"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A named publisher's interconnected messages and labeled illustrative catalog.",
          "corroboration": "Many posts within this network remain one attributed source tradition.",
          "limit": "No authenticated identity or observed home world follows from the catalog. A luminous video does not itself identify its occupants."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Publisher describes human-like forms; no universal 2.5-metre standard adopted.",
          "hair": "Several colours, including dark and pale hair; long hair is preferred in this cosmology.",
          "clothing": "Loose or elaborate ceremonial clothing in the publisher's descriptions."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Explicit symbolic-art label",
            "Variation rather than one fixed phenotype"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Photographic-evidence label",
            "Invented eyewitness scene",
            "One publisher's taxonomy applied to other accounts"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Independent identity verification"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain symbolic art with source-specific labeling. Remove an unlocated FAQ claim about photographs."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "thor",
      "tag": "05 / TWO STORIES, NOT ONE COMMAND CHAIN",
      "name": "Valiant Thor & the Venus tradition",
      "person": "Frank Stranges · later Family of Taygeta",
      "when": "Pentagon-era claim · later retellings",
      "origin": "Venus, not Pleiades, in these accounts",
      "appearance": "About 6 feet in Stranges's article, not 2.5 metres. Brown and wavy; brown eyes and tanned complexion. The current mid-century suit is illustrative, not a verified meeting photograph.",
      "craft": "Stranges names Victor Class vessels without a hull description here. The transparent/invisible vessel belongs to a separate later Taygeta message.",
      "place": "Washington, D.C. / Alexandria, Virginia",
      "placeType": "Alleged meeting/departure geography",
      "geo": [
        38.88,
        -77.07
      ],
      "sources": [
        "thor-written",
        "thor-video",
        "fot-venus",
        "thor-mirdad",
        "mirdad-transcript"
      ],
      "kind": "Claimant narrative / later elaboration",
      "question": "Where does the “Federation commander” title originate? The cited Taygeta message explicitly places the Benok commanders outside its Federation.",
      "body": "The source you pointed to does not support merging Thor, Ikai and Ashtar into the same role. Preserving the different versions makes the lore navigable and reveals what still needs an original citation.",
      "next": "Find contemporary visitor records and the earliest unedited photo provenance; keep Stranges’s story separate from the 2022 message.",
      "image": "v2/thor.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v2/thor.webp",
        "label": "Narrative illustration",
        "title": "The visitor in a suit",
        "alt": "Editorial painting of a brown-haired man in a mid-century suit in a Washington civic setting",
        "basis": "Stranges's written account describes brown hair and brown eyes. The governmental meeting story belongs to his narrative.",
        "assumptions": "Not an authenticated likeness or a photograph of a government visit. Face, clothing and architecture are artistic choices; no official encounter is asserted by the illustration.",
        "source": "thor-written",
        "short": "Stranges · Valiant Thor"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Frank Stranges's authored About Commander Valiant Thor, part 1",
        "classification": "Religious contactee narrative with later circulated photographs",
        "sources": [
          "thor-written"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Stranges's written account and an attributed photo-circulation history.",
          "corroboration": "The Menger gathering and photographer August Roberts belong to a shared source network.",
          "limit": "A photograph's existence does not establish a Pentagon visit or Venusian identity."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "About 6 feet in Stranges's article, not 2.5 metres.",
          "hair": "Brown and wavy; brown eyes and tanned complexion.",
          "clothing": "The current mid-century suit is illustrative, not a verified meeting photograph."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Brown wavy hair for Stranges's version",
            "Adult human proportions"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Blond giant substituted for this description",
            "1977 broadcast speaker treated as this person",
            "Government architecture as documentary proof"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Authenticated likeness",
            "Hull geometry of the named Victor Class craft"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Keep the brown-haired interpretation; correct the assumption that every account in this umbrella must look alike."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski",
      "tag": "06 / THE EARLY CONTACTEE RECORD",
      "name": "Orthon & the desert meeting",
      "person": "George Adamski",
      "when": "1952 claim · books in 1953 and 1955",
      "origin": "Venus in Adamski’s narrative",
      "appearance": "About 5′6″; estimated appearance about 28 years old. Sandy waves to the shoulders; clean-shaven face; grey-green eyes. Chocolate-brown one-piece high-neck garment, broad waistband, fitted wrists and ankles; no visible fasteners or pockets. Oxblood shoes.",
      "craft": "Scout craft and larger vessels belong to the tradition. The famous December photograph is from a separate occasion.",
      "place": "Desert Center, California",
      "placeType": "Broad reported meeting area",
      "geo": [
        33.71,
        -115.4
      ],
      "sources": [
        "adamski-book",
        "adamski-photos",
        "adamski-books",
        "adamski-description",
        "adamski-setting"
      ],
      "kind": "Contactee narrative / claimed photographs",
      "question": "What can actually be tied to the November meeting, rather than to later books and photographs?",
      "body": "Separate the encounter date, first publication, later visitor name and later craft photograph. Those records are related, but they are not the same observation.",
      "next": "Locate first editions, contemporaneous witness statements and original photographic negatives.",
      "image": "v3/adamski-source.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v3/adamski-source.webp",
        "label": "Book-based illustration",
        "title": "The costume in Adamski's account",
        "alt": "A clean-shaven sandy-haired adult with shoulder-length waves, in a brown high-neck one-piece garment in a rocky desert",
        "basis": "The book's visitor is short by the giant-Nordic stereotype. This reading restores the smooth face and specified brown costume.",
        "assumptions": "Exact likeness, stance, fabric texture and desert layout remain artistic choices. This is not the December craft photograph or an authenticated encounter image.",
        "source": "adamski-book",
        "related_source": "adamski-photos",
        "short": "1952 · Orthon"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "November 1952 encounter as narrated in Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953)",
        "classification": "Contactee book narrative; craft-photo archive is a separate source class",
        "sources": [
          "adamski-book",
          "adamski-photos"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Published first-person narrative and later foundation archive.",
          "corroboration": "The famous December craft photograph is not a photograph of the November meeting.",
          "limit": "The book's detail does not independently authenticate its visitor."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "About 5′6″; estimated appearance about 28 years old.",
          "hair": "Sandy waves to the shoulders; clean-shaven face; grey-green eyes.",
          "clothing": "Chocolate-brown one-piece high-neck garment, broad waistband, fitted wrists and ankles; no visible fasteners or pockets. Oxblood shoes."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Shoulder-length sandy hair and smooth face",
            "Brown high-neck single-piece clothing"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Stubble, work-shirt collar or chest pockets",
            "Generic giant build",
            "December photograph passed off as the encounter"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact likeness",
            "Surveyed scene geometry"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the stubbled figure in tan work coveralls; the written costume is materially different."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "menger",
      "tag": "07 / A CLAIM THAT CHANGED",
      "name": "The High Bridge circle",
      "person": "Howard Menger",
      "when": "1950s stories · 1978 reinterpretation",
      "origin": "Earlier Venus framing later reconsidered",
      "appearance": "Tall, without a numerical height in this scene. Long blond hair over the shoulders; eyes compared with goldenrod in sunset. White high-neck ski-type uniform and belt, fitted cuffs and ankles; light-blue cape with a gold wheel clasp at the left shoulder.",
      "craft": "An inverted translucent cup/saucer form with grouped portholes in the 1956 account.",
      "place": "High Bridge, New Jersey",
      "placeType": "Contactee home / social-network setting",
      "geo": [
        40.67,
        -74.9
      ],
      "sources": [
        "menger-text",
        "menger-revision",
        "menger-1959",
        "thor-written"
      ],
      "kind": "Contactee narrative / later revision",
      "question": "How did Menger’s own explanation change between the book and the 1978 recorded interview?",
      "body": "Menger’s social circle intersects the Thor photo narrative. That link helps trace circulation of stories and images rather than count them as independent confirmations.",
      "next": "Review the complete Good/Zinsstag recording and identify the original August C. Roberts negatives.",
      "image": "v3/menger-source.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v3/menger-source.webp",
        "label": "Book-based illustration",
        "title": "The visitor and the cup-shaped craft",
        "alt": "A long-blond-haired figure in a high-neck white uniform and blue cape approaches from a large cup-in-saucer craft with two attendants at its doorway",
        "basis": "The selected book scene supplies a distinctive uniform, cape fastening and large translucent craft, not a generic small metal saucer.",
        "assumptions": "Face, absolute dimensions, ground layout and exact craft engineering remain artistic choices. The sunset is part of the selected account.",
        "source": "menger-text",
        "short": "1956 · High Bridge"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "A Profound Space Teacher, late-August 1956 narrative in the 1959 book",
        "classification": "Contactee book narrative; not a photographed encounter reconstruction",
        "sources": [
          "menger-text",
          "menger-revision"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A first-person literary account with detailed scene and costume descriptions.",
          "corroboration": "The wider Menger–Stranges social network is not independent corroboration of this scene.",
          "limit": "Specific claims remain attributed to Menger; later reinterpretations require their own recording check."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall, without a numerical height in this scene.",
          "hair": "Long blond hair over the shoulders; eyes compared with goldenrod in sunset.",
          "clothing": "White high-neck ski-type uniform and belt, fitted cuffs and ankles; light-blue cape with a gold wheel clasp at the left shoulder."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Source-specific white uniform and cape",
            "Large translucent cup-in-saucer craft",
            "Two attendants beside the doorway, with the main figure approaching"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Open shirt collar",
            "Tiny generic metallic disc",
            "Invented precise height"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact face",
            "Craft dimensions and clearing layout"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the generic costume and small saucer with the specifically described scene."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "meier",
      "tag": "08 / THE NAME AND THE IMAGE",
      "name": "Semjase & the Plejaren accounts",
      "person": "Billy Meier",
      "when": "First report dated January 1975",
      "origin": "Early Pleiades wording / later Plejaren–Erra",
      "appearance": "Approximately 1.70 m in the advocate profile. Fine light-blond hair; blue eyes; slender adult appearance. The illustration's garment is not established by the selected profile.",
      "craft": "Beamships in the contact reports and claimed photographic archive.",
      "place": "Hinwil, Switzerland",
      "placeType": "Regional first-contact setting",
      "geo": [
        47.3,
        8.84
      ],
      "sources": [
        "meier-semjase",
        "meier-001",
        "meier-photos",
        "meier-1989",
        "meier-2011"
      ],
      "kind": "Reconstructed dialogue / claimed photographs",
      "question": "Which images retain a traceable original, and which have already been identified as terrestrial performers?",
      "body": "The advocate archive itself acknowledges the performers in the famous Asket/Nera images. Preserve that provenance even when presenting its alternative explanation.",
      "next": "Work from original reports and negatives; obtain a reliable translation before quoting the low-quality video ASR.",
      "image": "v2/meier.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v2/meier.webp",
        "label": "Profile interpretation",
        "title": "Semjase as described in the profile",
        "alt": "Painted interpretation of a light-blond-haired adult woman at a Swiss woodland edge",
        "basis": "The advocate archive describes Semjase as slender, 1.7 metres tall, light-blond-haired and blue-eyed.",
        "assumptions": "The exact face, clothing and summer landscape are invented. This is not a reconstruction of the January 1975 first-contact scene. No Asket/Nera performer photograph is used as an alien likeness.",
        "source": "meier-semjase",
        "short": "Semjase · profile interpretation"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Semjase advocate profile; Contact Report 001 distinguished from later imagery",
        "classification": "Retrospectively reconstructed dialogue and an attributed photographic archive",
        "sources": [
          "meier-semjase",
          "meier-001",
          "meier-photos"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "An advocate archive preserves descriptions and contact-report texts.",
          "corroboration": "The source says the dialogue is reconstructed, not a contemporaneous recording.",
          "limit": "Asket/Nera performer images are a different provenance problem and cannot authenticate Semjase."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Approximately 1.70 m in the advocate profile.",
          "hair": "Fine light-blond hair; blue eyes; slender adult appearance.",
          "clothing": "The illustration's garment is not established by the selected profile."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Profile-interpretation label",
            "Light-blond adult woman"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Summer scene labeled exact January 1975 encounter",
            "Performer photograph represented as an alien",
            "Universal giant phenotype"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact likeness",
            "Outfit in the depicted setting"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain as a profile interpretation, explicitly not a January first-contact reconstruction."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "omnec",
      "tag": "09 / A DIFFERENT MEANING OF VENUS",
      "name": "From an astral Venus",
      "person": "Omnec Onec",
      "when": "Autobiography first published in 1991",
      "origin": "Astral-level Venus, in her autobiography",
      "appearance": "No Nordic height standard inferred. No authenticated extraterrestrial portrait inferred from ordinary human appearance. Entire symbolic scene is an artistic choice.",
      "craft": "Her narrative includes spacecraft travel; no craft is independently authenticated in this dossier.",
      "place": "Earth arrival location not normalized",
      "placeType": "No defensible point assigned",
      "geo": null,
      "sources": [
        "omnec",
        "omnec-orthon",
        "omnec-video"
      ],
      "kind": "Autobiographical spiritual claim",
      "question": "Is the source describing a physical planet, an astral realm, or a transition between the two?",
      "body": "Her official circle connects Orthon to her family story. That is a stated lore relationship and a lead about how traditions interact, not demonstrated kinship.",
      "next": "Verify original autobiography wording and interview recordings; avoid replacing astral claims with ordinary planetary claims.",
      "image": "v2/omnec.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v2/omnec.webp",
        "label": "Symbolic illustration",
        "title": "Venus as a spiritual setting",
        "alt": "Symbolic painterly scene of a human figure and a luminous atmospheric landscape",
        "basis": "Omnec's autobiography describes an astral level of Venus. This differs from a claim about ordinary surface habitation.",
        "assumptions": "A symbolic scene, not a portrait of Omnec, a reconstruction of a sighting or an image of the physical planet. All visible scene details are artistic choices.",
        "source": "omnec",
        "short": "Omnec · astral Venus narrative"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Official autobiographical / spiritual account",
        "classification": "Autobiographical spiritual claim, not an unidentified-being sighting",
        "sources": [
          "omnec",
          "omnec-orthon"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "The author's own biography and official-circle materials.",
          "corroboration": "No independent extraterrestrial identity evidence established in this review.",
          "limit": "Astral Venus is the claimed setting; it must not silently become ordinary physical surface habitation."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "No Nordic height standard inferred.",
          "hair": "No authenticated extraterrestrial portrait inferred from ordinary human appearance.",
          "clothing": "Entire symbolic scene is an artistic choice."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Symbolic, not encounter-reconstruction label"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Physical Venus landscape presented as observed",
            "Invented authenticated likeness"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Independent identity",
            "Verified craft"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain explicitly symbolic art. Her narrative includes spacecraft travel; lack of verification does not mean no craft is mentioned."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "delicado",
      "tag": "10 / THE DETAILS BEFORE THE COSMOLOGY",
      "name": "The British Columbia road encounter",
      "person": "Miriam Delicado",
      "when": "1988 account · interview in 2008",
      "origin": "Not established in the reviewed passage",
      "appearance": "Tall doorway figures; no exact numerical height adopted. White-blond hair and intensely blue eyes. Exact uniforms, footwear and doorway construction unresolved.",
      "craft": "A bright, hazy road object and a larger craft up an embankment appear in the account; precise geometry is unclear.",
      "place": "Northern British Columbia, Canada",
      "placeType": "Regional account; no precise coordinate claimed",
      "geo": [
        55,
        -124
      ],
      "sources": [
        "delicado",
        "delicado-video"
      ],
      "kind": "First-person account",
      "question": "Do the other passengers’ independently recorded memories match the timeline and missing-time calculation?",
      "body": "She describes conscious memories, not memories recovered through hypnosis. The original video is currently unavailable, but its primary interview transcript survives.",
      "next": "Seek earliest written notes and fellow-passenger accounts. Her later Hopi associations are her interpretation, not a statement on behalf of Hopi people.",
      "image": "v2/delicado.webp",
      "visual": {
        "image": "v2/delicado.webp",
        "label": "Account illustration",
        "title": "At the threshold",
        "alt": "Painted interpretation of two tall pale-haired figures at a bright doorway above a wooded road",
        "basis": "Delicado describes two tall figures with snow-white/blond hair and blue eyes at a craft doorway.",
        "assumptions": "The clothing, faces, woodland and craft geometry are artistic choices. The interview does not specify the precise outline shown here.",
        "source": "delicado",
        "short": "1988 · British Columbia"
      },
      "audit": {
        "version": "Surviving 2008 Project Camelot interview transcript about the 1988 road account",
        "classification": "First-person encounter / abduction narrative, explicitly conscious recall",
        "sources": [
          "delicado"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A surviving primary interview transcript; original linked video is unavailable.",
          "corroboration": "Other passengers' independently recorded accounts were not located in this pass.",
          "limit": "The narrator describes herself as conscious at the key stage. Passenger count is not a count of independently confirming witnesses."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall doorway figures; no exact numerical height adopted.",
          "hair": "White-blond hair and intensely blue eyes.",
          "clothing": "Exact uniforms, footwear and doorway construction unresolved."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Two tall figures above the roadside embankment",
            "Source-qualified bright doorway"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "A numerical giant height",
            "Recovered-under-hypnosis description",
            "Pleiadian origin presented as measured fact"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Craft shell geometry",
            "Independent passenger testimony"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain the broadly compatible doorway scene with explicit unresolved costume and craft geometry."
      }
    }
  ],
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      "id": "roestenberg",
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      "origin": "Unspecified by the witness",
      "craft": "A bright silver, domed, Mexican-hat-like object; tilted so she could see the pair side by side.",
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      "precision": "Reported encounter location",
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        52.82,
        -2.24
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "crowder",
        "roestenburg-fsn",
        "roestenburg-archive",
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      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "hall",
      "name": "Norwegians ≠ Tall Whites",
      "origin": "Nordic/Norwegian origin not established",
      "craft": "He assigns different approach routes and technical capabilities to the groups; the Nordic-specific passages do not give a dependable hull shape.",
      "place": "Cambridge / Madison, Wisconsin, United States",
      "precision": "Two towns in the claimant’s interview; regional anchor, not a precise encounter site",
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        43.05,
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      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "hall-harris",
        "hall-tv",
        "hall-directory"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
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    },
    {
      "id": "friedman",
      "name": "The man on Orcas Island",
      "origin": "Left unresolved by the storyteller",
      "craft": "No craft reported in Friedman’s own encounter window. Helicopter and compound stories come from friends or locals.",
      "place": "Orcas Island, Washington",
      "precision": "Approximate reported encounter setting",
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        48.65,
        -122.94
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "friedman-original"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "taygeta",
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      "origin": "Pleiades / Taygeta in this narrative",
      "craft": "Rounded ships, luminous spheres and visionary bubble/kite craft appear in different kinds of account. Recorded footage does not establish the named operator.",
      "place": "Sedona, Arizona",
      "precision": "Publisher’s claimed base; not verified infrastructure",
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        34.87,
        -111.76
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "fot-pleiadians",
        "fot-faq",
        "fot-fleets",
        "fot-gf",
        "fot-bases",
        "fot-travel",
        "kab-nordic"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "thor",
      "name": "Valiant Thor & the Venus tradition",
      "origin": "Venus, not Pleiades, in these accounts",
      "craft": "Stranges names Victor Class vessels without a hull description here. The transparent/invisible vessel belongs to a separate later Taygeta message.",
      "place": "Washington, D.C. / Alexandria, Virginia",
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        -77.07
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "thor-written",
        "thor-video",
        "fot-venus",
        "thor-mirdad",
        "mirdad-transcript"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "adamski",
      "name": "Orthon & the desert meeting",
      "origin": "Venus in Adamski’s narrative",
      "craft": "Scout craft and larger vessels belong to the tradition. The famous December photograph is from a separate occasion.",
      "place": "Desert Center, California",
      "precision": "Broad reported meeting area",
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        33.71,
        -115.4
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "adamski-book",
        "adamski-photos",
        "adamski-books",
        "adamski-description",
        "adamski-setting"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "menger",
      "name": "The High Bridge circle",
      "origin": "Earlier Venus framing later reconsidered",
      "craft": "An inverted translucent cup/saucer form with grouped portholes in the 1956 account.",
      "place": "High Bridge, New Jersey",
      "precision": "Contactee home / social-network setting",
      "geo": [
        40.67,
        -74.9
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "menger-text",
        "menger-revision",
        "menger-1959",
        "thor-written"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "meier",
      "name": "Semjase & the Plejaren accounts",
      "origin": "Early Pleiades wording / later Plejaren–Erra",
      "craft": "Beamships in the contact reports and claimed photographic archive.",
      "place": "Hinwil, Switzerland",
      "precision": "Regional first-contact setting",
      "geo": [
        47.3,
        8.84
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "meier-semjase",
        "meier-001",
        "meier-photos",
        "meier-1989",
        "meier-2011"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "omnec",
      "name": "From an astral Venus",
      "origin": "Astral-level Venus, in her autobiography",
      "craft": "Her narrative includes spacecraft travel; no craft is independently authenticated in this dossier.",
      "place": "Earth arrival location not normalized",
      "precision": "No defensible point assigned",
      "geo": null,
      "source_ids": [
        "omnec",
        "omnec-orthon",
        "omnec-video"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "delicado",
      "name": "The British Columbia road encounter",
      "origin": "Not established in the reviewed passage",
      "craft": "A bright, hazy road object and a larger craft up an embankment appear in the account; precise geometry is unclear.",
      "place": "Northern British Columbia, Canada",
      "precision": "Regional account; no precise coordinate claimed",
      "geo": [
        55,
        -124
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "delicado",
        "delicado-video"
      ],
      "relation_type": "source_attributed_association",
      "independent_identity_verified": false
    }
  ],
  "media_policy": "Original illustrations are AI interpretations. Third-party media is linked or played from its source; full new captions and the downloaded X video are private research, not redistributed in this public folder.",
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    {
      "title": "Buchanan’s answer matters",
      "body": "A seven-foot pale attendant is not automatically Nordic. In the relevant exchange Buchanan explicitly rejects that label.",
      "video": "1sxmSMzqnmA",
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    },
    {
      "title": "A question is not a confirmation",
      "body": "Jesse suggests a Nordic label for the Holloman occupants; Fox’s next description is different. Preserve who said what.",
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    },
    {
      "title": "A comparison is not a second witness",
      "body": "Jorjani connects several older stories. The relationship graph records his comparison without counting each retelling as fresh corroboration.",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 4700
    },
    {
      "title": "The new August context",
      "body": "Mishlove explicitly disclaims firsthand ET-being experience before discussing positive things he has heard about Nordics.",
      "video": "lcaY-rd9Dhc",
      "start": 9570
    }
  ],
  "case_windows": [
    {
      "title": "A lunar city, through a remote viewer’s account",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 3929,
      "end": 3992,
      "who": "Jorjani retelling Ingo Swann",
      "setting": "Moon",
      "kind": "Remote-viewing retelling",
      "description": "Jorjani describes statuesque Nordic-looking inhabitants and a hostile reaction to an observer. This is his retelling of Swann, not Jorjani’s own observation.",
      "question": "Which details survive comparison with Swann’s original account?"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Mars session and an added identity",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 4243,
      "end": 4402,
      "who": "Jorjani interpreting a remote-viewing session",
      "setting": "Mars / proposed Earth destination",
      "kind": "Interpretation of a released record",
      "description": "The released session describes tall, thin people seeking a new home. Nordic identity and an Earth destination enter in later interpretation.",
      "source": "cia-mars",
      "question": "What belongs to the session transcript, and what is the guest’s inference?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Human-looking attendants in Walton’s story",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 4683,
      "end": 4809,
      "who": "Jorjani + inserted Travis Walton clip",
      "setting": "Craft interior / larger enclosure",
      "kind": "Archival testimony plus guest taxonomy",
      "description": "The inserted clip describes a more muscular human-looking attendant, a star-map room and movement into a larger enclosure. Jorjani supplies the Nordic grouping.",
      "question": "Does Walton use the same label, or only describe the appearance?"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Andreasson / Luca religious narrative",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 4809,
      "end": 4902,
      "who": "Jorjani retelling a contact narrative",
      "setting": "Underground-appearing environment",
      "kind": "Secondhand religious/contact narrative",
      "description": "Angelic-looking figures, a luminous threshold and religious communication appear together in the retelling. The setting is not necessarily space.",
      "question": "Can original testimony distinguish memory, religious interpretation and later narration?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Friendship / Amicizia and underground sites",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 4965,
      "end": 5150,
      "who": "Jorjani retelling the Italian Friendship material",
      "setting": "Alleged underground bases",
      "kind": "Contactee-network retelling",
      "description": "The account connects purported human-looking visitors, psychic feats and robotic opponents. Names in automatic captions require correction against original books.",
      "question": "Which participants recorded observations independently, and when?"
    },
    {
      "title": "A future-human model",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 5433,
      "end": 5556,
      "who": "Jason Jorjani",
      "setting": "Proposed human future / past",
      "kind": "Explicit explanatory hypothesis",
      "description": "Jorjani uses recurring appearance and architecture to propose time-traveling humans. A recurring depiction is the starting comparison, not evidence that this explanation is correct.",
      "question": "What observation would distinguish future humans from another human-looking-origin hypothesis?"
    },
    {
      "title": "The striking couple in a Las Vegas hotel",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 6642,
      "end": 6703,
      "who": "Jorjani relaying John Alexander’s story",
      "setting": "Las Vegas, Nevada",
      "kind": "Secondhand encounter retelling",
      "description": "A tall man and woman are described as communicating apparently telepathically. The chain is Alexander → Jorjani → episode, not a firsthand Jorjani encounter.",
      "question": "Can the earliest Alexander version and an independent witness be located?"
    },
    {
      "title": "A diner story about purported dissidents",
      "video": "ABw7EsWh2Us",
      "start": 7710,
      "end": 7958,
      "who": "Jorjani relaying a Lyn Buchanan story",
      "setting": "Diner location unspecified / alleged Colorado residents",
      "kind": "Multiply relayed anecdote",
      "description": "Three men allegedly describe dissident Nordic origins and life in Colorado mountain towns. The conversation does not establish the diner’s location.",
      "question": "What does Buchanan’s own original version say?"
    },
    {
      "title": "A subterranean Antarctic hypothesis",
      "video": "ABw7EsWh2Us",
      "start": 6991,
      "end": 7113,
      "who": "Jason Jorjani",
      "setting": "Antarctica",
      "kind": "Explicit location speculation",
      "description": "The guest proposes a surviving underground civilization and reasons about mountain facilities. This is not a demonstrated base or a surveyed coordinate.",
      "question": "What independent, locatable physical observation would test this proposal?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Reinhold Schmidt and a transparent interior",
      "video": "ABw7EsWh2Us",
      "start": 8175,
      "end": 8331,
      "who": "Jorjani + inserted Schmidt clip",
      "setting": "Reported 1957 vehicle / craft encounter",
      "kind": "Contactee story with inserted testimony",
      "description": "A metallic exterior, transparent-looking interior and human-looking occupants are described. The guest’s occupant count differs from the inserted clip.",
      "question": "Which count and sequence occur in the earliest record?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mr. Janus and the disarmament invitation",
      "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
      "start": 11728,
      "end": 11855,
      "who": "Jorjani retelling Sir Peter Horsley",
      "setting": "Meeting associated with Miss Markham",
      "kind": "Retelling / names require original-book check",
      "description": "The story involves an expressionless, pale woman and a nuclear-disarmament invitation. ASR renders Janus inconsistently; original book details remain a follow-up.",
      "question": "What does the earliest Horsley text actually say about identity and appearance?"
    },
    {
      "title": "Appearance does not settle disposition",
      "video": "1sxmSMzqnmA",
      "start": 6204,
      "end": 6299,
      "who": "Lyn Buchanan",
      "setting": "His taxonomy of alleged beings",
      "kind": "Claimant’s classification",
      "description": "Buchanan says physical categories span friendly and hostile dispositions. Later he rejects a Nordic label for one pale-attendant account.",
      "question": "Which observations support the categories, rather than inferring behavior from looks?"
    }
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  "visual_edition": {
    "version": "source-fidelity-3",
    "updated": "2026-09-05",
    "hero_families": [
      "adamski",
      "friedman",
      "delicado",
      "thor"
    ],
    "policy": "Original AI-created editorial illustrations. Source descriptions inform each scene; none is a photograph or an authenticated likeness. An illustrated setting is not independent evidence of the reported event.",
    "items": {
      "roestenberg": {
        "image": "v3/roestenburg-garden.webp",
        "label": "Interview-based scene",
        "title": "The boys in the front garden",
        "alt": "A painted mother emerging from her own rural cottage, two sons prone in the garden, with part of a silver object above the roof",
        "basis": "The supplied interview at 00:42–00:54 places the boys outside on the ground when she emerges. This is the initial garden phase, not the later shelter beneath a kitchen table.",
        "assumptions": "Architecture, clothes, faces, ages and lighting are illustrative. The overhead object is a contextual reconstruction, not a measured scene. The occupant study shows a later viewing phase separately.",
        "source": "crowder",
        "related_source": "roestenburg-fsn",
        "short": "1954 · Staffordshire",
        "details": [
          {
            "image": "v3/roestenburg-occupants.webp",
            "title": "Two occupants, side by side",
            "alt": "Two long-golden-haired human-looking figures in pale-blue high-neck clothing behind a shared canopy, with delicate transparent head-covering outlines",
            "basis": "The later viewing passage describes two occupants together, golden pageboy hair, pale-blue clothing and transparent head coverings.",
            "assumptions": "Exact faces, sex, garment seams, canopy framing and helmet geometry are unknown. Fine transparent outlines are illustrative, not an engineering reconstruction."
          }
        ]
      },
      "hall": {
        "image": "v3/hall-context.webp",
        "label": "Context portrait",
        "title": "Hall's separate Norwegian account",
        "alt": "A painterly human-presenting adult against an abstract background, not an authenticated visitor portrait",
        "basis": "Hall's Harris interview locates his Norwegian encounters in Wisconsin. The ordinary-human appearance is his comparison; it is not his separate Nevada Tall White scene.",
        "assumptions": "Face, hair, clothing and backdrop are nonspecific artistic choices. No physical detail is presented as a way to identify actual people as nonhuman.",
        "source": "hall-harris",
        "short": "Hall · Wisconsin"
      },
      "friedman": {
        "image": "v3/friedman-woodland.webp",
        "label": "Interview-based scene",
        "title": "A solitary figure below the ridge",
        "alt": "One longish-blond-haired adult farther downhill in a wooded property on Orcas Island, without buildings or bystanders",
        "basis": "Friedman describes a solitary wooded walk, a striking man about twenty feet downhill, longish blond hair and European-looking clothes. The man speaks without visible mouth movement in his account.",
        "assumptions": "Face, garment cut, footwear and exact woodland are illustrative. Perspective conveys the downhill position, not a measured height. His friend's compound and helicopter lore are not depicted.",
        "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
        "source": "friedman-original",
        "start": 8436,
        "short": "Friedman · Orcas Island"
      },
      "taygeta": {
        "image": "v2/taygeta.webp",
        "label": "Cosmology illustration",
        "title": "The publisher's imagined world",
        "alt": "Symbolic painting of humanlike figures with different hair colors in a luminous speculative setting",
        "basis": "Family of Taygeta describes humanlike forms with black, brown and pale hair, as well as rounded or luminous craft in different narratives.",
        "assumptions": "A symbolic editorial scene, not a witnessed meeting, a verified base or a reproduction of Kabamur's catalog. Faces, clothing, composition and setting are invented.",
        "source": "fot-pleiadians",
        "short": "Taygeta · attributed narrative"
      },
      "thor": {
        "image": "v2/thor.webp",
        "label": "Narrative illustration",
        "title": "The visitor in a suit",
        "alt": "Editorial painting of a brown-haired man in a mid-century suit in a Washington civic setting",
        "basis": "Stranges's written account describes brown hair and brown eyes. The governmental meeting story belongs to his narrative.",
        "assumptions": "Not an authenticated likeness or a photograph of a government visit. Face, clothing and architecture are artistic choices; no official encounter is asserted by the illustration.",
        "source": "thor-written",
        "short": "Stranges · Valiant Thor"
      },
      "adamski": {
        "image": "v3/adamski-source.webp",
        "label": "Book-based illustration",
        "title": "The costume in Adamski's account",
        "alt": "A clean-shaven sandy-haired adult with shoulder-length waves, in a brown high-neck one-piece garment in a rocky desert",
        "basis": "The book's visitor is short by the giant-Nordic stereotype. This reading restores the smooth face and specified brown costume.",
        "assumptions": "Exact likeness, stance, fabric texture and desert layout remain artistic choices. This is not the December craft photograph or an authenticated encounter image.",
        "source": "adamski-book",
        "related_source": "adamski-photos",
        "short": "1952 · Orthon"
      },
      "menger": {
        "image": "v3/menger-source.webp",
        "label": "Book-based illustration",
        "title": "The visitor and the cup-shaped craft",
        "alt": "A long-blond-haired figure in a high-neck white uniform and blue cape approaches from a large cup-in-saucer craft with two attendants at its doorway",
        "basis": "The selected book scene supplies a distinctive uniform, cape fastening and large translucent craft, not a generic small metal saucer.",
        "assumptions": "Face, absolute dimensions, ground layout and exact craft engineering remain artistic choices. The sunset is part of the selected account.",
        "source": "menger-text",
        "short": "1956 · High Bridge"
      },
      "meier": {
        "image": "v2/meier.webp",
        "label": "Profile interpretation",
        "title": "Semjase as described in the profile",
        "alt": "Painted interpretation of a light-blond-haired adult woman at a Swiss woodland edge",
        "basis": "The advocate archive describes Semjase as slender, 1.7 metres tall, light-blond-haired and blue-eyed.",
        "assumptions": "The exact face, clothing and summer landscape are invented. This is not a reconstruction of the January 1975 first-contact scene. No Asket/Nera performer photograph is used as an alien likeness.",
        "source": "meier-semjase",
        "short": "Semjase · profile interpretation"
      },
      "omnec": {
        "image": "v2/omnec.webp",
        "label": "Symbolic illustration",
        "title": "Venus as a spiritual setting",
        "alt": "Symbolic painterly scene of a human figure and a luminous atmospheric landscape",
        "basis": "Omnec's autobiography describes an astral level of Venus. This differs from a claim about ordinary surface habitation.",
        "assumptions": "A symbolic scene, not a portrait of Omnec, a reconstruction of a sighting or an image of the physical planet. All visible scene details are artistic choices.",
        "source": "omnec",
        "short": "Omnec · astral Venus narrative"
      },
      "delicado": {
        "image": "v2/delicado.webp",
        "label": "Account illustration",
        "title": "At the threshold",
        "alt": "Painted interpretation of two tall pale-haired figures at a bright doorway above a wooded road",
        "basis": "Delicado describes two tall figures with snow-white/blond hair and blue eyes at a craft doorway.",
        "assumptions": "The clothing, faces, woodland and craft geometry are artistic choices. The interview does not specify the precise outline shown here.",
        "source": "delicado",
        "short": "1988 · British Columbia"
      }
    }
  },
  "fidelity": {
    "edition": "source-fidelity-3",
    "reviewed": "2026-09-05",
    "scope": "Ten existing account families reviewed. Roestenburg and Friedman receive full scene-sequence checks. This is not an exhaustive census of encounters or a fresh listening of the entire corpus.",
    "method": [
      {
        "title": "Choose the version",
        "body": "Record the speaker, date, original page or time window. A later recollection and an early investigator report remain separate."
      },
      {
        "title": "Extract before interpreting",
        "body": "Separate appearance, place, movement and sequence from names, home worlds and the speaker's explanation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Write a visual contract",
        "body": "List required details, forbidden additions and unresolved details. Do not let a generic Nordic portrait substitute for the described person."
      },
      {
        "title": "Check the resulting image",
        "body": "Compare the actual people, hair, clothing, scale, setting and moment against that contract. A caption saying artistic license does not fix the wrong scene."
      }
    ],
    "cases": {
      "roestenberg": {
        "version": "1977-listed interview as preserved in the supplied 6:05 clip; compared with the 1954/55 investigator report",
        "classification": "Reported close encounter with occupants · CEIII-type description, not a finding of authenticity",
        "sources": [
          "crowder",
          "roestenburg-fsn",
          "roestenburg-archive",
          "bbc"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Period press / investigator material and a later first-person filmed interview survive.",
          "corroboration": "One accessible firsthand witness voice reviewed: Jessie. The boys' remarks are investigator- or mother-mediated; separately elicited statements were not located.",
          "limit": "Several records of one family's story are not several independent confirmations. No event photograph, physical sample or instrumental record was established here."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Occupants' height not stated; they are seen seated.",
          "hair": "Long golden pageboy-style hair.",
          "clothing": "Pale-blue ski-type clothing; a transparent head-covering comparison, with exact geometry unresolved."
        },
        "sequence": [
          {
            "at": "00:42–00:54",
            "start": 42,
            "title": "The front garden",
            "body": "She comes outside and sees her two sons lying flat on the ground, looking up. This is not the later kitchen-table scene."
          },
          {
            "at": "01:00–01:39",
            "start": 60,
            "title": "Beside her cottage",
            "body": "She moves toward the side water pump. A silver domed object is tilted toward her above the roof; two occupants sit side by side."
          },
          {
            "at": "01:47–03:23",
            "start": 107,
            "title": "The occupants and the fear",
            "body": "Golden pageboy hair, pale-blue clothing and a transparent cockpit. She describes being unable to move through fear."
          },
          {
            "at": "03:23–04:36",
            "start": 203,
            "title": "Departure in two stages",
            "body": "She looks toward the boys, then finds the object gone. Later it is visible farther away; she describes three circuits and departure."
          },
          {
            "at": "05:25–05:35",
            "start": 325,
            "title": "After the sighting",
            "body": "Her husband returns to find the family locked indoors, sheltered under the kitchen table."
          }
        ],
        "variants": [
          {
            "field": "Starting positions",
            "early": "Gibbons: mother and three children initially inside; all go out.",
            "late": "Interview: two boys already prone in the front garden when she comes out."
          },
          {
            "field": "Departure",
            "early": "Gibbons: witnessed angled ascent and 1½ circuits.",
            "late": "Interview: initial departure missed while looking down; three later circuits."
          },
          {
            "field": "Scale",
            "early": "The period diagram gives estimated dimensions, not measurements.",
            "late": "Roof and chimneys obscured from her viewpoint; no height supplied. Apparent roof occlusion is not a measured footprint."
          }
        ],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Own rural cottage and outside garden",
            "Exactly two sons for the interview's garden phase",
            "Two occupants side by side",
            "Long golden hair; pale-blue clothing"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Neighbourhood street or neighbouring roof presented as sourced",
            "Children under a table while viewing the craft",
            "Short hair or giant engineered aquarium helmets",
            "A home star or species assigned by the witness"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact faces and architecture",
            "Precise helmet construction",
            "Absolute height and craft dimensions in the interview"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the generic countryside scene with a garden-phase reconstruction and a separate occupant study. Do not merge the period and late sequences."
      },
      "friedman": {
        "version": "Original AA episode, 2:20:36–2:24:17; local captions checked continuously in context",
        "classification": "Recorded first-person anomalous-person encounter; no craft in the firsthand scene",
        "sources": [
          "friedman-original"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A recorded first-person recollection with a traceable episode and time window.",
          "corroboration": "The friend is absent during the encounter. His compound, helicopter and pub stories are relayed lore, not a second observation of this meeting.",
          "limit": "No contemporaneous encounter record or independent witness statement was located in this pass. Identity remains an interpretation."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall as described, but not measured. 6′4″ is Friedman's own height; 7′2″ is a hypothetical comparison he could not make.",
          "hair": "Longish blond hair; striking, Scandinavian-model-like appearance.",
          "clothing": "Unusual European-looking clothing; detailed cut, colour and shoes unspecified."
        },
        "sequence": [
          {
            "at": "02:20:36",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8436,
            "title": "A walk alone",
            "body": "His host has gone shopping. On a fine morning Friedman walks the friend's wooded property, about twenty acres."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:21:07",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8467,
            "title": "Across the ridge",
            "body": "A solitary man is roughly twenty feet away, farther downhill. No houses, road or bystanders are described."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:21:39",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8499,
            "title": "A greeting without visible speech",
            "body": "He reports hearing his name and an instruction to leave without seeing the man's mouth move. The man does not appear threatening."
          },
          {
            "at": "02:22:10",
            "video": "yJUBSuPh1pM",
            "start": 8530,
            "title": "What he could not estimate",
            "body": "After leaving he looks back and sees no one. Asked about height, he explains that the downhill position prevented a reliable comparison."
          }
        ],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Wooded ridge and downhill separation",
            "One encountered adult with longish blond hair",
            "Closed mouth; nonthreatening expression"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Older woman from the previous story",
            "Harbour street, houses or companions",
            "Craft, helicopter or compound in the encounter",
            "Measured 7′2″ or 2.5-metre height"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Encounter date",
            "Exact face, clothes and footwear",
            "Precisely surveyed location"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the populated residential lane with a solitary wooded-ridge encounter. Keep hearsay out of the image."
      },
      "hall": {
        "version": "Harris interview question 9; AA distinguishes Norwegians from Tall Whites",
        "classification": "Claimant's retrospective encounters and taxonomy",
        "sources": [
          "hall-harris",
          "hall-tv"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Hall's own published interviews describe two different groups.",
          "corroboration": "No independent anatomical examination or separately recorded witness for the Norwegian identification was established here.",
          "limit": "His reported physical differences are not a diagnostic test for identifying actual people as nonhuman."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "No fixed giant height in this selected Norwegian account.",
          "hair": "Human-passing southern-Norwegian appearance; this is Hall's comparison.",
          "clothing": "No specific encounter outfit supplied by the selected passage."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "A human-passing person, as a contextual illustration"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Nevada desert presented as this Norwegian encounter",
            "Borrowed Tall White scout craft",
            "Invented giant height or visible alien anatomy"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact individual face and costume",
            "Nordic-specific craft geometry"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Move the attributed map setting to Wisconsin and replace the Nevada art with explicitly nonspecific context."
      },
      "taygeta": {
        "version": "Family of Taygeta's current authored descriptions and method statement",
        "classification": "Attributed telepathic / spiritual cosmology, not an eyewitness case file",
        "sources": [
          "fot-pleiadians",
          "fot-faq",
          "fot-fleets"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A named publisher's interconnected messages and labeled illustrative catalog.",
          "corroboration": "Many posts within this network remain one attributed source tradition.",
          "limit": "No authenticated identity or observed home world follows from the catalog. A luminous video does not itself identify its occupants."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Publisher describes human-like forms; no universal 2.5-metre standard adopted.",
          "hair": "Several colours, including dark and pale hair; long hair is preferred in this cosmology.",
          "clothing": "Loose or elaborate ceremonial clothing in the publisher's descriptions."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Explicit symbolic-art label",
            "Variation rather than one fixed phenotype"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Photographic-evidence label",
            "Invented eyewitness scene",
            "One publisher's taxonomy applied to other accounts"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Independent identity verification"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain symbolic art with source-specific labeling. Remove an unlocated FAQ claim about photographs."
      },
      "thor": {
        "version": "Frank Stranges's authored About Commander Valiant Thor, part 1",
        "classification": "Religious contactee narrative with later circulated photographs",
        "sources": [
          "thor-written"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Stranges's written account and an attributed photo-circulation history.",
          "corroboration": "The Menger gathering and photographer August Roberts belong to a shared source network.",
          "limit": "A photograph's existence does not establish a Pentagon visit or Venusian identity."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "About 6 feet in Stranges's article, not 2.5 metres.",
          "hair": "Brown and wavy; brown eyes and tanned complexion.",
          "clothing": "The current mid-century suit is illustrative, not a verified meeting photograph."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Brown wavy hair for Stranges's version",
            "Adult human proportions"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Blond giant substituted for this description",
            "1977 broadcast speaker treated as this person",
            "Government architecture as documentary proof"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Authenticated likeness",
            "Hull geometry of the named Victor Class craft"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Keep the brown-haired interpretation; correct the assumption that every account in this umbrella must look alike."
      },
      "adamski": {
        "version": "November 1952 encounter as narrated in Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953)",
        "classification": "Contactee book narrative; craft-photo archive is a separate source class",
        "sources": [
          "adamski-book",
          "adamski-photos"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "Published first-person narrative and later foundation archive.",
          "corroboration": "The famous December craft photograph is not a photograph of the November meeting.",
          "limit": "The book's detail does not independently authenticate its visitor."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "About 5′6″; estimated appearance about 28 years old.",
          "hair": "Sandy waves to the shoulders; clean-shaven face; grey-green eyes.",
          "clothing": "Chocolate-brown one-piece high-neck garment, broad waistband, fitted wrists and ankles; no visible fasteners or pockets. Oxblood shoes."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Shoulder-length sandy hair and smooth face",
            "Brown high-neck single-piece clothing"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Stubble, work-shirt collar or chest pockets",
            "Generic giant build",
            "December photograph passed off as the encounter"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact likeness",
            "Surveyed scene geometry"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the stubbled figure in tan work coveralls; the written costume is materially different."
      },
      "menger": {
        "version": "A Profound Space Teacher, late-August 1956 narrative in the 1959 book",
        "classification": "Contactee book narrative; not a photographed encounter reconstruction",
        "sources": [
          "menger-text",
          "menger-revision"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A first-person literary account with detailed scene and costume descriptions.",
          "corroboration": "The wider Menger–Stranges social network is not independent corroboration of this scene.",
          "limit": "Specific claims remain attributed to Menger; later reinterpretations require their own recording check."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall, without a numerical height in this scene.",
          "hair": "Long blond hair over the shoulders; eyes compared with goldenrod in sunset.",
          "clothing": "White high-neck ski-type uniform and belt, fitted cuffs and ankles; light-blue cape with a gold wheel clasp at the left shoulder."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Source-specific white uniform and cape",
            "Large translucent cup-in-saucer craft",
            "Two attendants beside the doorway, with the main figure approaching"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Open shirt collar",
            "Tiny generic metallic disc",
            "Invented precise height"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact face",
            "Craft dimensions and clearing layout"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Replace the generic costume and small saucer with the specifically described scene."
      },
      "meier": {
        "version": "Semjase advocate profile; Contact Report 001 distinguished from later imagery",
        "classification": "Retrospectively reconstructed dialogue and an attributed photographic archive",
        "sources": [
          "meier-semjase",
          "meier-001",
          "meier-photos"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "An advocate archive preserves descriptions and contact-report texts.",
          "corroboration": "The source says the dialogue is reconstructed, not a contemporaneous recording.",
          "limit": "Asket/Nera performer images are a different provenance problem and cannot authenticate Semjase."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Approximately 1.70 m in the advocate profile.",
          "hair": "Fine light-blond hair; blue eyes; slender adult appearance.",
          "clothing": "The illustration's garment is not established by the selected profile."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Profile-interpretation label",
            "Light-blond adult woman"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Summer scene labeled exact January 1975 encounter",
            "Performer photograph represented as an alien",
            "Universal giant phenotype"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Exact likeness",
            "Outfit in the depicted setting"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain as a profile interpretation, explicitly not a January first-contact reconstruction."
      },
      "omnec": {
        "version": "Official autobiographical / spiritual account",
        "classification": "Autobiographical spiritual claim, not an unidentified-being sighting",
        "sources": [
          "omnec",
          "omnec-orthon"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "The author's own biography and official-circle materials.",
          "corroboration": "No independent extraterrestrial identity evidence established in this review.",
          "limit": "Astral Venus is the claimed setting; it must not silently become ordinary physical surface habitation."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "No Nordic height standard inferred.",
          "hair": "No authenticated extraterrestrial portrait inferred from ordinary human appearance.",
          "clothing": "Entire symbolic scene is an artistic choice."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Symbolic, not encounter-reconstruction label"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "Physical Venus landscape presented as observed",
            "Invented authenticated likeness"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Independent identity",
            "Verified craft"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain explicitly symbolic art. Her narrative includes spacecraft travel; lack of verification does not mean no craft is mentioned."
      },
      "delicado": {
        "version": "Surviving 2008 Project Camelot interview transcript about the 1988 road account",
        "classification": "First-person encounter / abduction narrative, explicitly conscious recall",
        "sources": [
          "delicado"
        ],
        "documentation": {
          "record": "A surviving primary interview transcript; original linked video is unavailable.",
          "corroboration": "Other passengers' independently recorded accounts were not located in this pass.",
          "limit": "The narrator describes herself as conscious at the key stage. Passenger count is not a count of independently confirming witnesses."
        },
        "description": {
          "height": "Tall doorway figures; no exact numerical height adopted.",
          "hair": "White-blond hair and intensely blue eyes.",
          "clothing": "Exact uniforms, footwear and doorway construction unresolved."
        },
        "sequence": [],
        "variants": [],
        "contract": {
          "include": [
            "Two tall figures above the roadside embankment",
            "Source-qualified bright doorway"
          ],
          "exclude": [
            "A numerical giant height",
            "Recovered-under-hypnosis description",
            "Pleiadian origin presented as measured fact"
          ],
          "unknown": [
            "Craft shell geometry",
            "Independent passenger testimony"
          ]
        },
        "revision": "Retain the broadly compatible doorway scene with explicit unresolved costume and craft geometry."
      }
    }
  },
  "lore": {
    "reviewed": "2026-09-05",
    "scope": "Two requested narrative branches and four additional source leads. They are not four new independently verified encounters.",
    "branches": [
      {
        "id": "broadcast",
        "label": "26 NOVEMBER 1977",
        "title": "An interrupted broadcast. An unresolved voice.",
        "visual": "signal",
        "description": "The event to investigate is an audio intrusion into television—not a filmed appearance by a being. Its later identity story has several layers.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "label": "Period record",
            "text": "Fortean Times reports the intrusion and the broadcaster's hoax announcements. Its short text uses Asteron / Intergalactic Mission.",
            "sources": [
              "ft1977"
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "Later identification",
            "text": "The Taygeta page uses Vrillon / Ashtar Galactic Command and incorporates the message into its own Sirian-leader narrative. That does not make the speaker Valiant Thor.",
            "sources": [
              "fot-ashtar",
              "ashtar-vantassel"
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "Where to investigate",
            "text": "Ofcom's 2026 response points to Bournemouth's ITA/IBA archive. An original recording and engineering file would be more useful than another re-upload.",
            "sources": [
              "ofcom-2026"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "question": "Which surviving audio has a traceable off-air recording history, and how does it compare with the contemporary transcription?",
        "caveat": "No online copy was authenticated as the original in this pass. A surviving disturbance record is not proof of the announced identity."
      },
      {
        "id": "hyperborea",
        "label": "ONE NAME · DIFFERENT TRADITIONS",
        "title": "Which Hyperborea does this source mean?",
        "visual": "lineage",
        "description": "Ancient literature, occult geography and modern contact cosmologies use the name differently. Keep the author and era visible.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "label": "Ancient text",
            "text": "Diodorus's northern-island tradition concerns Apollo and a legendary people. It does not identify a Pleiadian colony.",
            "sources": [
              "hyperborea-diodorus"
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "1888 reinterpretation",
            "text": "Blavatsky describes a polar continent in an occult scheme of human origins. This is not a demonstrated lost continent.",
            "sources": [
              "hyperborea-blavatsky"
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "Modern contact cosmology",
            "text": "FIGU Italia instead places its Hyperborea near present Florida and connects it to Plejaren ancestors. Its Ashtar story conflicts with Taygeta's version.",
            "sources": [
              "hyperborea-figu",
              "fot-ashtar"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "question": "What is the earliest source for the specific location, ancestry and date being claimed—not merely for the word Hyperborea?",
        "caveat": "These are competing textual traditions, not a chain of independent geographical confirmations. No direct Kabamur–Hyperborea post was verified."
      }
    ],
    "leads": [
      {
        "id": "walton",
        "name": "Walton's human-looking attendants",
        "place": "Arizona account",
        "type": "Primary excerpt located",
        "note": "The author supplies a roughly 6′2″ helmeted attendant in blue. Hair colour and a Nordic home world are not established in the selected passage.",
        "sources": [
          "walton-human"
        ],
        "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
        "start": 4683
      },
      {
        "id": "schmidt",
        "name": "Schmidt's six occupants",
        "place": "Kearney, Nebraska",
        "type": "Reproduced first-person narrative",
        "note": "Dark hair and men roughly 5′8″ complicate a generic tall-blond grouping. Preserve his text beside the later AA interpretation.",
        "sources": [
          "schmidt-primary"
        ],
        "video": "ABw7EsWh2Us",
        "start": 8175
      },
      {
        "id": "friendship",
        "name": "The Friendship network",
        "place": "Italy · claimed underground sites",
        "type": "Author's distinctions located",
        "note": "Breccia separates what he reports experiencing from extreme heights he was told about. A network is not automatically a set of independent witnesses.",
        "sources": [
          "friendship-breccia"
        ],
        "video": "EzPmG_7WhXc",
        "start": 4965
      },
      {
        "id": "klarer",
        "name": "Klarer, Akon and Meton",
        "place": "Southern African contactee tradition",
        "type": "Publication lead · visual brief pending",
        "note": "A source family absent from the earlier ten. Direct memoir / interview review is still needed before depicting a particular person or scene.",
        "sources": [
          "klarer-publisher"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
