The Red Thread Files
UFO / UAP · Consciousness
1945–2026621 entities437 of 1390 connections sourced138 documents held
The Red Thread Files
What changed

173 rulings against our own record.

Claims withdrawn, wordings corrected, dates removed, sources qualified — including twelve entities we took off the map and put back the same day when the test behind the removal turned out to be incomplete. Each carries the date it was decided and the reason written at the time.

What counts as a change, and what does not
Connection withdrawn
A line that was drawn between two entities and has been taken off. The reason is on the entry. Nothing is deleted from the file — the judgment stays checkable.
Correction to our wording
The document was always right; we described it wrongly. The old wording is printed beside the new one.
End date removed
A date this map asserted a person’s work ended. The date is kept in the file for audit and is no longer shown to a reader.
Taken off the map
An entity removed entirely. Where it was later restored, the entry says so and gives the reason the removal was wrong.
Citation caveat recorded
The source is real and does not say quite what we said it said. The claim stays, with the gap named.

Not here: anything about how the site looks. This page is the record changing, not the pages being rebuilt. Every entry comes from a dated field in the file the site is generated from — nothing on this page was written for it.

66 rulings, 7 days

Newest first. Where one ruling covered many entries — as the end-date removal did — the reason is given once and the names are listed under it.

3 September 2026 — 12 in total

Taken off the map, and restored12 entities

Taken off the map on 3 September 2026 as a name with no bearing on either subject, then put back the same day. THE TEST BEHIND THE REMOVAL WAS NOT COMPLETE. It rested partly on the entity carrying no sourced connection, and unsourced is not the same as nothing there - the corpus has transcribed 463 of the 3,934 pages it holds, so 88% of its own paper could not be searched. A full-text sweep of the 31 documents available found no mention of this entity, but the remaining documents could not be staged. This entity is intelligence-adjacent, which is what the unread pages are full of, so it is restored until the sweep can be finished.

30 August 2026 — 4 in total

Connection withdrawn1 connection

WITHDRAWN 30 August 2026. An allegation that a sitting member of Congress sought to fund a primary challenge against another member in retaliation for his advocacy, attributed in this map's own voice to nobody at all - "allegedly", with no allegator. THE CLAIM SURVIVES, better put, on Mike Turner's entity page, which says "per staffers". That is the honest form: an anonymous-source attribution that states what kind of source it is. An edge saying "allegedly" states nothing. A FIRST DRAFT OF THIS NOTE CLAIMED THE CLAIM SURVIVED NOWHERE, written without checking, and the control on claim_survives caught it - the node ids searched were miketurner and timburchett, which do not exist; the real ones are turner and burchett. THE CLAIM IS NOT JUDGED FALSE. Restorable as an edge the moment the staffers are named or a document is recorded.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

WITHDRAWN 30 August 2026. The sentence names its accuser as "the panel" and no such body is identifiable anywhere in this record - not a hearing, not a committee, not a named group. An accusation of professional misconduct between two living documentary-makers, attributed to an accuser that cannot be located, is not a sourced claim; it is a rumour with a definite article in front of it. THIS CLAIM DOES NOT SURVIVE ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE SITE. Restorable the moment the panel is named and a source recorded.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

WITHDRAWN 30 August 2026. This edge placed a named living astrophysicist inside an alleged crash-retrieval programme on the strength of "reportedly". No document, no citation, no named source. Being named as a participant in a secret programme is a claim that can follow a working scientist for the rest of his career, and this map was making it without being able to say who said so. NOT JUDGED FALSE, and restorable the moment the report is identified.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

WITHDRAWN 30 August 2026. This edge asserted, between a named living scientist and Jeffrey Epstein, that he sought Epstein's counsel on his own misconduct allegations, and the whole of that rested on the word "reportedly". Reported by whom is not recorded here and this project holds no document, no citation and no named source for it. An allegation of this kind about a living named person is the one that most needs an attributable source and this one had none. THE CLAIM IS NOT JUDGED FALSE and it is not deleted: the link stays in the array, flagged, and can be restored the moment somebody records who reported it and where.

26 August 2026 — 2 in total

Connection withdrawn1 connection

WITHDRAWN 2026-08-26 because the source it named does not say it. This edge asserted, in this map's own voice and between two living men, that AARO's Historical Record Report Volume I records James Clapper as having blocked a 2008 attempt to transfer recovered material. This project now holds that report and searched its full text: the name Gaffney does not appear in its 63 pages; the only "2008" in the file is "Defense Appropriations Acts of Fiscal Years 2008 and 2010"; and "Clapper" appears four times, once recommending against Special Access Program status for AAWSAP/AATIP on printed 23 and three times in endnotes citing his memorandum of 17 November 2009 - never about stopping a transfer. What the report does carry is on printed 31, quoted on this site: interviewees allege that a former CIA official, whom AARO does not name, stopped a transfer of material to the USG in 2010, and the person alleged to have stopped it denied the allegation. There is no honest rewording of this edge, because once the unsupported parts are removed nothing remains that connects these two particular men. This is not a claim with a weak source; it is a claim with a named source that says something else, which is the exact failure this project exists to avoid.

End date removed1 person

Removed 26 August 2026, after the operator supplied two CIA releases to settle it and neither one carried the date. 1995-11-28 appeared exactly once in the whole canonical file - on this field - with no end_basis, no document, no link and no note behind it anywhere in the project. It is the same fault as the 95 person death-dates removed on 25 August and it survived that sweep only because the sweep was scoped to people. WHAT IS HELD INSTEAD: an American Institutes for Research DRAFT report of 22 September 1995 concluding that "continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted", and CIA's own memorandum ORD-0520-95 of 27 September 1995 recommending that the intelligence community terminate remote viewing operations and research, and proposing that the recommendation be forwarded to Congress. A recommendation is not an act, and no page this project holds records a termination or a date for one. The 27 September date was NOT substituted: dating a programme's end with the date of a memo recommending its end is dating one event with another event's number.

25 August 2026 — 104 in total

Connection withdrawn1 connection

This connection asserted a two-decade succession in the map's own voice, on the evidence string "US remote-viewing program history - Targ 2019 (JSE)", with NO BIND AT ALL - five elements where every other link has six, so there was not even a slot recording that nothing had been tested against it. It also leaps four programmes that are now drawn AND sourced between its two ends: gondolawish -> grillflame (link 1292), grillflame -> centerlane (1293), centerlane -> sunstreak (1337), each bound to a page read off the sheet. The one document this project holds that mentions SCANATE says only "There was a Project named SCANATE, run by SRI-I, funded by the CIA and co-participated in with the National Security Agency (NSA)." Nothing held connects SCANATE to what came after it. Withdrawn rather than refused because a refusal names a document that was read and cuts the other way, and there is none to name.

Correction to our wording1 connection

THE RECORD CARRIES NEITHER YEAR AND NOT THE WORD "LONGTIME". Folio 6051 reprints a Washington Post article of 29 March 1966 which says "Keyhoe now is director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, an organization whose major aims are to evaluate all UFO sightings". That fixes the directorship at one month and says nothing about when it began or ended. A caveat was considered and rejected: a caveat scopes a modifier the document does not reach, and here the document reaches neither year, so there is nothing to scope. Read by eye 2026-08-25.

NICAP → Donald Keyhoe
Keyhoe was its longtime director (1957-1969) Keyhoe was its director in March 1966

Correction to our wording1 connection

THE WORD "FLIPPANT" IS NOT ON THE PAGE, and "swamp gas" occurs exactly once in parts 2 to 6, on this sheet. Folio 6046 prints Ford's letter of 28 March 1966: the Air Force "sent a consultant, Astrophysicist Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, to Michigan to investigate the various reports; and he dismissed all of them as the product of college student pranks or swamp gas or an impression created by the rising crescent moon and the planet Venus. I do not agree that all of these reports can be or should be so easily explained away." That is disagreement, not the characterisation the claim asserted. Read by eye 2026-08-25.

Gerald Ford → J. Allen Hynek
publicly called his "swamp gas" explanation flippant named him in a letter to the Armed Services Committee as the consultant who dismissed the Michigan sightings as swamp gas, and said he did not agree they could be so easily explained away

Correction to our wording1 connection

The cited page does not say it. Printed 34 reads "Second, I gave all of that material to the DIA through BAASS, the AAWSAP program." - a witness saying where he sent his files, not a statement that DIA awarded BAASS anything, and it names no year. THE CAVEAT REMOVED HERE WAS WORSE THAN THE CLAIM: reviewed 2026-08-21, it read "The award is in the testimony; only the 2008 DATE is not. Date is a modifier." The award is not in the testimony either, so the caveat scoped away a smaller problem than the one present and read as diligence already done. The award and its 2008 date leave this project's voice until a document for them is held.

Defense Intelligence Agency → BAASS
awarded it the 2008 AAWSAP contract received George Knapp's Soviet UFO files through it, under the AAWSAP program

Correction to our wording1 connection

HE DID NOT SIGN THAT LETTER. The letter attributing the early sightings to Big Blast "Coco" is at folio 6039 and is signed "JOHN P. SPAULDING, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Chief, Civil Branch, Community Relations Division, Office of Information". Quintanilla's own signed letter at 6041 says "Our investigation and evaluation of this sighting indicates a possible association with an 8th Air Force operation, Big Blast" and "Before a final evaluation of your sighting can be made, it is essential for us to know if either of you witnessed any aircraft in the area". Both folios read by eye 2026-08-25.

Hector Quintanilla Jr. → Exeter Incident
signed the Air Force evaluation attributing it to Operation Big Blast signed the Air Force letter saying the investigation indicated a possible association with Operation Big Blast, and that no final evaluation could yet be made

Correction to our wording1 connection

THE LETTER IS SIGNED BY BOTH PATROLMEN and this line said one man wrote it. Folio 6040 ends "EUGENE BERTRAND, Patrolman. DAVID HUNT, Patrolman." Link 1226 already records that Hunt co-signed the same December 1965 letter, so the map carried two descriptions of one document that disagreed about who wrote it. The claim is otherwise unchanged: both the Big Blast and the weather-inversion rejections are on the folio, and the date is now stated because the folio states it.

Eugene Bertrand → Hector Quintanilla Jr.
wrote to him rejecting the Big Blast and weather-inversion explanations co-signed the 2 December 1965 letter to him rejecting the Big Blast and weather-inversion explanations

Correction to our wording1 connection

WRONG SPEAKER. The words about the case being unexplained are Quintanilla's, at folio 6073, where he answers "That is correct, sir" to "I understand this is an unexplained sighting on your part". Hynek hedges throughout: at folio 6044 he declines to venture a conclusion on a case he had not personally investigated, and at 6074 says only "Yes, sir, but it was in the same area. We don't know what it was. I would like to know what it was." Nowhere on the sheets read does Hynek say the case is listed as unidentified. Folios 6044, 6073 and 6074 read by eye 2026-08-25.

J. Allen Hynek → Exeter Incident
testified it was listed as unidentified and that he could not explain it told the subcommittee "We don't know what it was. I would like to know what it was."

End date removed95 people

Removed 25 August 2026 on the operator's ruling. Measured first: of 106 people carrying an end date, NONE rested on a document this project holds, 89 recorded no basis at all, and only four drawn claims out of 1,337 depend on a person having died. A death date is not evidence about UAP, USO or consciousness research; it is an assertion about a real person that any reader can check in ten seconds, and this project could not support a single one of them. The date is kept here for audit and is no longer asserted to a reader.

24 August 2026 — 33 in total

Connection withdrawn1 connection

This connection asserted in the map's own voice that a living former Vice President led an alleged crash-retrieval program. It carried no evidence string and no document, and this project holds none. The allegation is not removed from the site: Dick Cheney's own entry records it, attributes it to David Grusch's 2023 interview, and states that he provided no corroborating documentation. That attributed sentence is the honest form of this claim. An undocumented edge drawn between the two men is not, and an edge is what a reader scanning the map sees first.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

The connection's own wording ended 'no evidence found', so the map was drawing an edge and disowning it in the same sentence. A reader scanning connections sees the edge; only a reader who stops to read the label sees the verdict. Harald Malmgren's entry carries that verdict properly and with its method attached: a 2025 investigation using declassified FBI background checks and his own 1960s job applications found no evidence for this or his other self-described government and intelligence roles.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

Withdrawn on the same reasoning as the LeMay connection: the relation text already recorded 'no evidence found', which is a verdict, not a relationship. Harald Malmgren's entry states the claim he made and the 2025 investigation that found no evidence for it, which is where a finding of that kind belongs.

Connection withdrawn1 connection

This connection asserted in the map's own voice that a named person deliberately fabricated a hoax, with no evidence string and no document behind it. An accusation of fabrication is the claim that most needs a source, and this one had none. Both entries already carry the account and both are better written than the edge was: Otto Binder's entry describes the invented ham-radio transmission, and Neil Armstrong's records that the transcript was unverified and that NASA and Armstrong both denied it. CONSEQUENCE, RECORDED SO IT IS NOT DISCOVERED LATER: this was Otto Binder's only connection, so his entry now stands with none. It is kept because his role text is the record of the hoax and Neil Armstrong's entry names him in prose.

Correction to our wording1 connection

The 1966 hearing calls him "Dr. J. Allen Hynek, consultant to Project Blue Book". The word "scientific" is not on the page.

J. Allen Hynek → Project Blue Book
scientific consultant consultant to Project Blue Book

Correction to our wording1 connection

"Founded" is not on the page. Printed 11 says "Bigelow's company, BAASS" and "the DIA's contractor, Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas" - possession and a contracting relationship, not a founding.

Robert Bigelow → BAASS
founded its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"

Correction to our wording1 connection

Contradicted in his own testimony at this hearing. Printed 21: "I quickly became PART OF a program that was originally called AAWSAP. That evolved into the program now called AATIP." Printed 32: "the program that I BELONGED TO, AATIP." Neither is a leadership claim and both are him describing his own role.

AATIP → Luis Elizondo
claimed leadership role he described himself as part of it, having joined after it evolved from AAWSAP

Correction to our wording1 connection

The page carries the forming and not the office. Printed 14, Fravor: "Lue had left the Pentagon in protest and joined forces with Tom DeLonge, Chris Mellon, Steve Justice and others to form To the Stars Academy."

To The Stars Academy → Tom DeLonge
co-founder / CEO among those who formed it

Correction to our wording1 connection

"Primary" is not on the page and the page names two people, not one: "Key psychics involved in the past ten years of research (both scientific and operational) at SRI-I are Ingo Swann and Pat Price (now deceased)."

Ingo Swann → Stanford Research Institute
primary psychic test subject there one of two key psychics named at SRI-I across ten years of research

Correction to our wording1 connection

The word Geneva appears zero times in this hearing. Printed 45, Knapp: "I am also familiar with the rhetoric - public rhetoric, between President Reagan and Gorbachev at the time too, that they traded statements about would it not be something if we were threatened by something from way outside."

Mikhail Gorbachev → Ronald Reagan
both recalled discussing an alien-invasion scenario at Geneva both are recorded as having traded public statements about an outside threat, per testimony at the 2025 hearing

Correction to our wording1 connection

The cited page carries both facts and explicitly declines to join them: "Whether or not that was so, the Air Force last week took definite steps to make itself feel better." The causation was ours. The passage on that page has recorded this in its does_not_support field since 19 August and the connection went on asserting it.

Gerald Ford → Edward Condon
his 1966 push led the Air Force to fund Condon's study publicly pressed for a congressional inquiry into UFOs in 1966, the same week the Air Force commissioned Condon's University of Colorado study

Correction to our wording1 connection

He did not chair it. The transcript opens: "the Hon. Andre Carson [chairman of the subcommittee] presiding. Present: Representatives Carson, Schiff, Welch, Himes..." and at printed 7 Schiff says "Thank you, Chairman Carson, for holding this open hearing." Carson chaired; Schiff attended as chairman of the full committee. This error was identified in the August hearings audit and never corrected.

Adam Schiff → Ronald Moultrie
chaired the May 2022 hearing at which Moultrie testified attended the May 2022 hearing as chairman of the full committee, where Moultrie testified

Correction to our wording1 connection

The first half is carried verbatim and the second is nowhere in this hearing - DOE is not mentioned. Printed 2, Luna presiding: "the former AARO director known as Sean Kirkpatrick attacked our witnesses and members on this Committee. It should be noted that he is a documented liar."

Sean Kirkpatrick → Anna Paulina Luna
she called him a "liar"; he later criticized her from his new DOE post she called him "a documented liar" in her opening statement as chairwoman

Correction to our wording1 connection

Printed 28 carries "NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stated that NASA would begin to investigate these events." The office is on the page. The ordinal "14th" and the range "2021-2025" are not, and the map stated them as flatly as the rest.

Bill Nelson → NASA
led as its 14th Administrator, 2021-2025 served as its Administrator

Correction to our wording1 connection

Friedman did not co-write the book. Weaver printed 13: "Also in 1978, a UFO researcher, Stanton Friedman, met with Marcel and began investigating the claims ... Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which led them to publish a book, The Roswell Incident, in 1980." The page describes two parallel efforts. The link's own evidence string has read "Berlitz & Moore" all along.

Stanton Friedman → William Moore
co-authored "The Roswell Incident" (1980) investigated the Marcel claims from 1978 alongside Moore, who published "The Roswell Incident" that same period with Charles Berlitz

Correction to our wording1 connection

"in Moscow" is not on the page. Printed 11: "Colonel Boris Sokolov, told me that their goal was..." Printed 46: "Colonel Sokolov... said there were 40 incidents where Russian warplanes were sent to intercept UFOs." The count was in the record and the map did not have it.

George Knapp → Boris Sokolov
interviewed him in Moscow; Sokolov described Russian warplane-UFO intercepts interviewed him about the Ministry of Defense program he ran

Correction to our wording1 connection

The map described an Army document as a CIA report. Page 1 is on DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY letterhead - US Army Operational Group, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort George G. Meade - with office symbol IAGPC-O, and page 2 is signed WAYNE M. MCDONNELL, LTC, MI, Commander, Det O. The CIA release stamp reads "Approved For Release 2003/09/10". Release is not authorship.

Gateway Process → Central Intelligence Agency
a 1983 CIA Army/analytical report on consciousness and the Monroe Institute reached the public through its 2003 CREST release; the report itself is a US Army INSCOM memorandum and the CIA did not write it

Correction to our wording1 connection

The claim asserted a causation the dates rule out. The committee was requested in a memorandum of 28 September 1965 and met on 3 February 1966; the Ford letter printed in the same hearing is dated 28 March 1966. Both hearing pages were read by eye here. The relationship between Ford and the committee is real and stays on the map; the direction of cause is what has been removed. Operator decision, 24 August 2026.

Gerald Ford → SAB Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book
his 1966 pressure campaign led to it being formed pressed the Air Force on UFOs in March 1966, five months after the memorandum that requested this committee

Correction to our wording1 connection

Same misattribution as link 924: the report is an Army INSCOM memorandum, not a CIA one. The subject of the assessment is unchanged. Left UNBOUND: pages 1 and 2 are the covering memorandum and do not name the Monroe Institute, and the other 26 pages have not been read.

Gateway Process → The Monroe Institute
the 1983 CIA report analyzed its Gateway Experience the 1983 US Army report assessed its Gateway Experience

Correction to our wording1 connection

The station is never named. Printed 10: "back in 1989, I reported about a guy named Bob Lazar, who claimed that he worked at a facility dubbed S4... very near to Area 51."

George Knapp → Bob Lazar
broke his Area 51 / S-4 story on KLAS-TV in 1989 reported his Area 51 / S-4 account in 1989

Correction to our wording1 connection

The title appears zero times in 54 pages, and the page says TWO books where the claim said one. Printed 29: "in full disclosure, I have co-written two books with him."

George Knapp → James Lacatski
co-authored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon with him co-wrote two books with him

Correction to our wording1 connection

The page does not say Gaffney holds classification authority. Begich asks "Is there a security classification guide for UAP or NHI?"; after another witness answers, Knapp says "I have a name for you... Glenn Gaffney, CIA." What the page carries is that Knapp offered the name in that context.

George Knapp → Glenn Gaffney
named him at the Sept 2025 UAP hearing as holding UAP classification authority named him at the Sept 2025 UAP hearing, in answer to a question about whether a UAP classification guide exists

Correction to our wording1 connection

"Outlasted" is not on the page. Printed 5999 lists the channels: "1. Air Force Regulation 200-2. 2. JANAP 146."

JANAP 146 (CIRVIS) → Project Blue Book
a separate national-security UFO-reporting channel that ran parallel to and outlasted it listed at the 1966 hearing as one of two directives for forwarding UFO reports, alongside Air Force Regulation 200-2

Correction to our wording1 connection

The map called her a "control" viewer. The SUN STREAK evaluation form does something else entirely: it defines its technique codes as "ERV indicates the Extended Remote Viewing technique, (Hella Hammid; CRV indicates the Coordinate Remote Viewing technique (Ingo Swann)". She is not a control in that document - she is the name on a method.

Hella Hammid → Stanford Research Institute
gifted 'control' remote viewer in the SRI experiments the Extended Remote Viewing technique is named for her in the programme's own evaluation forms

Correction to our wording1 connection

The month was not sourced. PDF 10 of cia-rdp96-00788r001100340001-3 is the only page in this corpus that names Semipalatinsk, URDF-3 or PNUTS and it prints no date at all. The node keeps 1974 as a received date with that basis recorded; a month-precise claim was more than anything held could carry.

Pat Price → Semipalatinsk remote viewing
June 1974: described the Soviet site near Semipalatinsk from map coordinates alone described the Soviet site near Semipalatinsk from map coordinates alone

Correction to our wording1 connection

The complete stenographic transcript of this hearing contains the words oath, sworn, swear and affirm exactly zero times in 50 pages. No oath was administered.

Sean Kirkpatrick → Senate Armed Services AARO Hearing (2023)
testified under oath as AARO director testified as AARO director

Correction to our wording1 connection

The map had it backwards while citing the document that says so. Weaver printed 26: "Doctor Spilhaus, Professor Moore, and certain others of the group were aware of the actual purpose of the project, but they did not know of the project nickname at the time."

Athelstan Spilhaus → Project Mogul
led the NYU balloon work but per the USAF report was never told Mogul's classified name or purpose led the NYU balloon work and, per the USAF report, knew the project's actual purpose but not its classified nickname

Correction to our wording1 connection

The map said his name was "not in the oral transcript". Printed 40: "Mr. BEGICH. Specific individuals. Mr. KNAPP. Well, one of them was named Dr. James Ryder at Lockheed." It is in the oral transcript, in answer to a direct question.

George Knapp → James T. Ryder
researchers claim his name was attached to the anonymous 'Lockheed VP' account via Knapp's written testimony around the Sept 2025 House UAP hearing; not in the oral transcript named him in oral testimony at the Sept 2025 House UAP hearing, in answer to a question asking for specific individuals

Correction to our wording1 connection

Same correction as link 1219. Printed page 40 names him in the oral record.

James T. Ryder → UAP Transparency & Whistleblower Protection Hearing (2025)
researchers claim his name was entered via Knapp's written statement; not present in the oral transcript named in oral testimony at this hearing by George Knapp, in answer to a question asking for specific individuals

Correction to our wording1 connection

The evidence string named the wrong part of the hearing. Pages 6036-6041 are the Exeter correspondence; the briefing this link asserts is on the Ad Hoc Committee agenda at printed 5996. The locator was null and the state read "proposed, not reviewed", so the citation had never been checked against a page. The claim itself is unchanged and is supported exactly as written, date included.

Hector Quintanilla Jr. → SAB Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book
CHRG-89hhrg50066O, pp. 6036-6041, the NICAP Exeter file entered into the record by Rep. William H. Bates briefed it on Project Blue Book, 3 February 1966

Correction to our wording1 connection

The cited table gives ARMY INSCOM a figure under JOINT PROGRAM for FY 1981 and FY 1982 only. Its FY 1983 row reads "DIA 340" with no brace and no INSCOM line. The claim reached one year past its own evidence string, which quotes that row.

INSCOM → Stanford Research Institute
funded the SRI psychoenergetics program from 1979 and jointly with DIA through FY1983 funded the SRI psychoenergetics program from 1979, and jointly with DIA in FY1981 and FY1982

23 August 2026 — 1 in total

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

THE DOCUMENT DOES NOT NAME HIM. It says "the GONDOLA WISH project officer" and stops there. No page among the fifteen CREST files read on 23 August 2026 states that Atwater held that title: he signs one GONDOLA WISH memorandum (31 July 1978, on attending a Charles Tart seminar) as "Project Officer", and two other GONDOLA WISH memoranda as "CI Studies Section"; the 27 April 1978 milestone chart names him as action officer. The operator identified the officer as Atwater on 23 August 2026 from knowledge outside this corpus, giving the title as "operations officer" - which in the documents held here belongs to CENTER LANE in about 1983, not to GONDOLA WISH in 1978. Everything the 1978 paper itself says is in the quoted sentence; the identification is the operator's and is recorded as his, so a reader can accept the one and refuse the other.

F. Holmes "Skip" Atwater → Robert Monroe
in 1978 the only Army individual the Army intelligence staff knew to have spoken with him

21 August 2026 — 17 in total

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Knapp's testimony gives 'Bigelow's company, BAASS', establishing ownership; the NYT of 16 Dec 2017 is also cited. Founding is carried by ordinary usage for a wholly-owned entity. The caution limits only the founding DATE and the corporate filing, both modifiers. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

Robert Bigelow → BAASS
its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Elizondo joined TTSA after resigning. The caution is about PROVENANCE - Fravor relating events he was told about - not about whether it happened. A weaker witness for the same fact.

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Fravor's testimony places Mellon among those who formed To The Stars Academy. Advisor is a different relationship to an organisation, not a narrower version of the same one, and the document supports the stronger role. The advisor title comes from TTSA's own 2017 disclosures and is not in this record. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Del Longe co-founded TTSA and was CEO. Co-founding is in the testimony; only the CEO title is not. Title is a modifier.

To The Stars Academy → Tom DeLonge
among those who formed it

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Same sentence as link 35: Fravor names DeLonge, Mellon, Justice and others as forming To the Stars Academy. The Aerospace director job title is not in this record. Treated identically to Mellon for consistency, since it is the same source sentence. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Eisenhower is ALLEGED IN DISPUTED DOCUMENTS to have been briefed. The document is a NARA statement that no MJ-12 material is in the holdings, and the caution correctly says absence does not authenticate the documents. That is the claim being used properly as a negative finding, which the charter treats as first-class.

Dwight Eisenhower → Majestic 12 (MJ-12)
alleged in disputed documents to have been briefed on it

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Harold Brown announced the selection of the Condon committee. The caution says one passage does not name Condon - and the same citation then gives Brown stating the decision himself at printed 6044. The claim is carried.

Harold Brown → Edward Condon
announced the selection of his committee

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Nelson led NASA as its 14th Administrator, 2021-2025. The hearing confirms he held the office. The ordinal and the date range are modifiers sourced elsewhere.

Bill Nelson → NASA
served as its Administrator

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Two faults removed at once. 'Fiercest' is a ranking the charter forbids and no document supports, the same fault stripped from link 1240 earlier today. And the citation itself said the hearing was NOT evidence of the critique. What the hearing DOES prove, on printed 30, is better: Rep. Ryan asked McDonald to evaluate the Colorado project, Roush ruled it out of scope by prior agreement, Miller said the committee had no authority, and McDonald said 'I am on record elsewhere than here in my specific views on that project.' Every word of the new claim is on that page. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

Edward Condon → James E. McDonald
his criticism of it was ruled out of scope at the 1968 symposium; he stated his views were on record elsewhere

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Nowak was Epstein's primary academic host at Harvard. The report documents the institutional relationship and Harvard's findings; the caution says only that the PHRASE is our characterisation. A figure of speech, not the fact.

Jeffrey Epstein → Martin Nowak
his primary academic host at Harvard

Citation caveat recorded1 connection

Claim: Minsky moved in Epstein's science circle; named in a Giuffre deposition, a claim his widow disputed. The report sources the funding tie. The deposition allegation is not addressed by it - and the claim ALREADY labels that half as disputed, satisfying guardrail 5.

Jeffrey Epstein → Marvin Minsky
the MIT AI pioneer moved in his science circle; named in a Giuffre deposition, a claim his widow disputed

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Knapp's testimony says Lacatski 'was the guy who initiated a program called AAWSAP', and calls him its inspiration at turn 171. Initiating a program and running it are different jobs. The witness gives a specific verb twice and it is not the one this link carried. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

Defense Intelligence Agency → James Lacatski
he initiated its AAWSAP program

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Claim: Knapp co-authored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon with Lacatski. The testimony has him saying he co-wrote two books with Lacatski; only the TITLE comes from elsewhere.

George Knapp → James Lacatski
co-wrote two books with him

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The 2025 hearing names neither NIDS nor Skinwalker Ranch nor the book. It supports none of this claim. Bind withdrawn; the claim was corrected separately on the co-author.

George Knapp → Robert Bigelow
reported on his ranch research and co-wrote a book about it with Colm Kelleher

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The transcript supports the naming exactly: at turn 300 Knapp answers Rep. Begich's question about who holds UAP classification authority with 'Glenn Gaffney, CIA.' The alleged blocked transfer is nowhere in the transcript, so the motive clause is dropped. The reworded claim is both sourced and more informative than the original. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

George Knapp → Glenn Gaffney
named him at the Sept 2025 UAP hearing, in answer to a question about whether a UAP classification guide exists

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The NARA series record proves the 4602d held UFO case files in RG 341 for 1954-1956 and places the squadron in the Air Force UFO chain of custody. AFR 200-2 has never been read by this project; it was asserted from a citation line. Removed rather than left reading as sourced. It can return the day someone opens the regulation. Note also that this source is a NARA SERIES, and whether a series counts as a document is still an open question here. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.

4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron → Project Blue Book
held the UFO case files, 1954-1956, in the Air Force investigation chain

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Claim: Knapp interviewed Sokolov in Moscow and Sokolov described intercepts. Both are in the testimony. The caution corrects a NUMBER (40, not 45) that appears in secondary accounts, not in our claim.

George Knapp → Boris Sokolov
testified that Sokolov described 40 incidents in which Russian warplanes were sent to intercept UFOs and were ordered to fire on them

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